Has there been "honorable studies about homosexuality as to why one person is born a homosexual while another is not?"
The only time I ever really hear about why a perosn is a homosexual it is coming from a religious fanatic (I am still looking for the scriptures that condemn homosexuality). Is this a gentic thing posibly hereditery?
2007-02-08 07:31:51 · 12 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
PinkFudge...
Do you hold all of the genetic traits of your parents?
Geneitcs doesn't always work in a straight line.
Sorry no punn intended there.
2007-02-08 07:44:56 · update #1
Personally, I don't think it's hereditary. Gay just is, just like straight people are just straight, no questions asked. It's not some kind of genetic defect that they feel they should study. Someday, everyone will get used to it and it will just be.
2007-02-08 07:38:51 · answer #1 · answered by Lindsey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I did a little research for my family this past holiday, because I had to "break the news" that I'm gay. I'm the youngest boy of 4 boys in my family (with a younger sister). I was reading an article online that I think makes REALLY good sense, and the proof was good too. This article states that the more boys a mother has, the more likely the younger ones will be gay.
They indicate that when the female is pregnant with a boy, the body feels that the male inside her is somewhat of a foreign object, because it's not also a female. They think that when this happeneds, the female produces hormones to almost "fight off" the differences between the male and the female. This production starts as a low dose, so it usually doesn't have an effect on the babies sexuality. But if a woman were to produce a few more males... this hormone that it produces because naturally stronger, making more of a chance that her younger boy/s will be gay.
It makes sense to me, but i'm no biologist. Try reading the article I did to help make more sense of this.....
I WILL SAY, that this study has only proven true to males, and shows no coorelation to why females are lesbians.
2007-02-08 16:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by AckDuScheisse!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all genetics doesn't work in the way one of the answers above says it does. For example if you suffer from a mental disease it doesn't necessarily mean that your parents must also suffer from it. How we are made is a combination of genetics and the surrounding environment. Not enough studies have been performed to understand why we are the way we are. For me being gay is just the way I am wired. I didn't wake up and make a so called lifestyle choice to want to be with other men. Just like if you were straight you did not choose to go after the opposite sex - you just felt it within you.
As to religious fanatics - they tend to choose what they like from their respective religious texts and omit other other parts that are also their. For example, in the Bible it does say man should not lie with another man as he would with a woman, but the Bible also allows a husband to beat his wife with a stick as thick as his thumb for disobedience. For some strange reason this part is never quoted or used in arguments. If you are going to use a religious text as your basis then you have to accept all its parts not the ones that you like.
2007-02-08 15:48:37 · answer #3 · answered by Michael K 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there have been some serious studies done at McGill University in Montreal which do show a genetic factor which leads to homosexuality.
For myself I can only offer anecdotal evidence: I am one of three male triplets and we are all gay (yes identical as well), my second set of triplet brothers (long story) are also gay. Now, I have a gay uncle on my fathers side and two on my mothers. I also have a great great uncle who was also gay. I can't say for sure but I have a strong feeling there's something there other than a 'choice', if you get my meaning.
Cheers
2007-02-08 15:53:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
practically this same question was just asked; look there.
there have been plenty of studies. there are several twin studies, the sheep studies (there are a few, as homosexuality is pretty common in sheep), including the one going on now that's getting flack from PETA, the sibling comparison studies, the LeVay brain analyses, and a whole lot of others that i can't think of off the top of my head. Get any recent psychology textbook and they will go over most of these studies in detail.
2007-02-08 15:45:03 · answer #5 · answered by scruffy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was attracted to the same sex at a very young age, as Oprah says, you are born gay, however I can argue a lot of points on genetics and such...
Women or men who have been abused by a person of the opposite sex might seek comfort in someone from the same sex, thus classifying themselves as gay...
Some people are just very open to the concept of whatever goes in life basically goes.
I myself... will be with someone who makes me happy, male or female.. doesn't matter.
It's what makes you smile that counts!
2007-02-08 15:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by who d 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES it is genetic- but not in a bad way -it's just the way we are..If you're straight can you just say one day hmmmm I wanna suck a d.ick??? No ...same with the us.And it does say something in the Bible's Leviticus chapter stating that a man laying with another man is an abomination-but the same is said about eating shellfish-go figure--
2007-02-08 15:38:15 · answer #7 · answered by Art 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I know I was born gay. I don't think it's hereditary though. Just a kind of fluke
2007-02-08 15:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by ron s 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was born gay. It's not hereditary. Too bad though, because lots of nice people are gay.
2007-02-08 15:39:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
It is not genetics. I think it is something defective in your body.
2007-02-08 15:43:02 · answer #10 · answered by Henry 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋