Do u feel that your sexual orientation was forced on u or do u feel it is genetic. Also if u know of any website that i could go on to prove your theory.
2007-05-13 19:05:59 · 12 answers · asked by brambram87 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
The societal pressure is clearly in the other direction, that is, society pressures homosexuals to be straight.
2007-05-13 19:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think you have to re-structure your question because you are saying it as if "forced on one" and genetics are mutually exclusive ways of becoming gay. I mean, wouldn't having a genetic sexual orientation be the ultimate of having it 'forced' onto you?
There is no website, no paper, no medical or psychological or sociological study that has even or will ever prove 'what' causes our sexuality to be X, Y or Z. I think the best you can do, essay-wise, is to address the various attributes of different arguments as follows:
genetics (gay gene - pros and cons if it were proved)
choice (radical right-wing literature and the "ex-gay" movement)
psychology/early childhood/parenting/culture (most people generally believe, gay or straight, that one's social and psychological development as well as one's environment predispose them to be gay or experience an attraction to members of their sex)
Personally, I think that sexual orientation is a mixture of one's body, one's exposure to one's surroundings, one's culture/religion, one's family/childhood, the circumstances surrounding one's sexual experiences, and the feelings one has about the relationships between or among these things.
I'm gay because I am attracted to a specific sub-group of other women. Not all women, and not every woman. I'm also mildly attracted to about one man in a thousand, and one woman in a dozen. Could genes deliver that kind of specificity? Who knows. I just don't want there to be a way of detecting such a gene if it well and truly exists. We would disappear from the face of the earth.
2007-05-14 02:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by Acousticradical 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any 'theory' about who I am. All I know is that as I have grown up and become a man I know what I want from relationships and have found happiness and love with the same sex. If that makes me 'gay' then call me that. It is just a term. What I am trying to say is that sexuality is something that grows and evolves with you as a person, just as your physical appearence changes over the years!
2007-05-14 02:27:31 · answer #3 · answered by waggy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well darling, I do believe that in my case it is a bit of both. I was sexually assaulted by two guys when I was around 13. And ever since then have found myself to be more comfortable with women. I'm a bisexual woman just like my sister so it may also be in our genes. Good luck with your theory!
2007-05-14 02:42:16 · answer #4 · answered by Neysa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it's not proven to be genetic, but it does seem to happen in the womb, likely a hormonal thing.
It was not forced on me, I was treated like gold my entire life, never pushed one way or the other.
Anyways, wikipedia has a lot of info on it, just check all the sources for the info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_of_sexual_orientation
2007-05-14 11:16:25 · answer #5 · answered by Luis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not forced. It may be genetic, but we don't really know till ongoing research puts a stamp of definitive on it. However, evidence suggests that it occurs throughout the animal kingdom, which may just go on to show that it is as natural as heterosexuality. Search the net for information, it is easily available.
http://www.skeptictank.org/gaygene.htm
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f97/projects97/Newman.html
In opposition:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04040609.html
2007-05-14 02:37:02 · answer #6 · answered by Gaymes Last Orchestra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Popeye said (in a different context), "I yam what I yam "
Through teenage years I was never attracted to boys nor upset when teased by girls for not chasing boys. I was 18 when I met the lass with whom I would spend the next 42 years
Rose P.
2007-05-14 02:41:55 · answer #7 · answered by rose p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're not the Borg. We don't assimilate people. You can't force a sexual desire on someone. Can someone force you to like brussel sprouts? I don't think so. And no one can force you to love or be attracted to the same sex either.
2007-05-14 02:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by God 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It was genetic. I doubt that you'll find anyone who says it was forced on them..And quite frankly--why would we lie about it?
2007-05-14 03:20:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you just read the 10,000 identical questions in this site and the hundreds of thousands of answers?
And do your own research. Why should we do it for you?
2007-05-14 12:00:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋