Is homosexuality a result of nature or nurture?

Question

Please feel free to answer in any way you wish. Thank you.

Answer 1

I'm gay. This isn't a difficult question to be honest. Some people just don't like the answer. It's nature and nuture. But by nature i don't mean genetics...I mean human nature, the soul. We aren't born with a sexual preference. The sex drive comes later with puberty and the person is propelled, if you will, in the direction they are leaning towards. we are influenced by our own soul and by our environment. For most ppl, the influence of the environment and the soul lead to the opposite sex. For some, it is the same sex. but genetics can't dictate this. at most, it can give us narrow hips or a heavy brow. but we are more than genetics and people who attempt to explain all things by science are ignoring a major fact. we are more than biology. and our life is not summed up by it. this is the truth. hope it helps! : )

Answer 2

Nature.

My nurture, being how I grew up, was next to perfect, nothing that would cause me to become gay. Others may be different, others will be like me, in the end there's too many variables for it to be anything but nature.

Think about even 1 000 000 gay people, all around the world, through every culture, every race, in every type of setting, all divergent. The only thread we share is that we're human, and we were born, the rest of the variables are far too divergent, our lives are too different, so nurture makes absolutely no sense.

Plus we have heterosexual parents, in theory if it was nurture, they couldn't nurture a homosexual child, because they'd have no basis for it. It would be an impossibility. It would imply our parents would make the decision, then force us into the mold.

Plus if you find intersex persons(who have both sets of genitals at birth), they are usually turned to females at birth, but a number of them even though they're raised(nurture) as female still grow up to be male, even though they've had extensive surgery and hormones. If that can't change someone, nothing can.

Answer 3

The deciding vote is still out if homosexuality is a result of genes or environmental influence.

Some would say that God made them that way. I think that as a result of mankind's aberrant influences--both environmentally and inheritable DNA, the practice can be passed down. But I am no scientist nor philosopher.

Until we know for certain, all we can do is have empathy for those afflicted and pray for their release from the activity.

Answer 4

I believe it can happen if a mother wishes she had a girl instead of a boy, so she dresses the boy in girl's clothes or vica versa. Also at puberty there is an uncertainty, so a skilful homosexual could easily persuade some vulnerable person that he/she is homosexual.

Answer 5

I think this question is given too much thought...
People make it more difficult than it is...

I am gay and I like strawberry ice cream...
I didn't chose to be either
(not the way I chose my clothes in the morning, at least)...

I wasn't born liking either
( I remember liking girls and chocolate before).

There is proof that my genetics might play a part.
My dad loves strawberry ice cream....
I have cousins that are also gay...

But in the end no one asks you, "were you born liking strawberry ice cream...or was it your environment that made you like strawberry ice cream."
Do you know why people don't ask this?:
Because its a ridiculous question.

Answer 6

Nature!!!!!

Answer 7

nature

Answer 8

that's a good question but i say nature. like me i only wanted my barbies to have barbie friends and my ken disappeared all the time ha haha ha lol

Answer 9

Nature, I would say.

Answer 10

it's nature....genetics. there is no choice in the matter. nothing "influenced" me to become a lesbian...no trauma or rejection. no abuse/rape/molestation. never knew anyone gay growing up.....just have always been attracted to women and never to men. period. simple as that.