what makes people homosexual?

Question

anyone man enough to tell me the REAL reason people are attracted to the same sex?

so then there COULD BE a biological, scientific mumbo jumbo explanation then?

why are you people so defensive, this is yahoo answers I had a question, I dont have a problem with ANYBODY

Answer 1

People seem "defensive" for two reasons -- the question is asked several times per week -- which becomes wearing for many -- AND you place the question as an attack.

Rather than asking the question "What makes people homosexual" and waiting for answers, you qualify it - and try to force answers into the channel you want by adding "anyone man enough to tell me the REAL reason people are attracted to the same sex?"

That is an attack -- therefore, people react defensively.

Now, I don't give a flying f**k whether you are trying to attack me or not. Under two ids I've had the reputation for only telling the truth -- I will continue that thanks.

I'm gay for EXACTLY the same reason you are straight. I always was. By age 8 I knew I preferred males to females in every way. I didn't know what sex was, but I knew that being with my male friends contented and pleased me in a way that being with my female ones didn't. At 11 I realized it was sexual. At about 14 I found out what that was called -- and got my first boyfriend. I have never had any interest in, or even the vaguest sexual reaction to any female -- not even once. Just as you have never had a sexual reaction to any male, I'm sure.

You cannot understand how that is possible precisely because you are so completely heterosexual that you can't imagine how I can be equally homosexual, and have always been equally homosexual -- however, I am and I was -- and to be honest, I have no ability to understand how you can be attracted to females and not see how truly compelling males are. I know its true that you can't -- and I accept the rest on faith because I know that being straight is natural for you -- but all the sureness you feel in your gut... that sense that feeling for women is RIGHT and feeling for men is WRONG -- I feel it exactly in reverse.. My development, I guarantee you (I am presuming that you are straight) mirrors yours exactly. The way your interest in girls developed, my interest in boys developed. As we grew up I had boyfriends even as you had girlfriends. You had sex with females, I had sex with males -- and today, Jonathan and I approach our 16th anniversary as a happy and content couple, although I must admit I am somewhat distressed that we outlasted most of our straight friends couplings.

There, I hope that helps, and yes, I am man enough to have told you EXACTLY the real reason I'm attracted to the same sex -- its the same reason you are attracted to the opposite sex -- its the only thing natural to me.

Kind regards,

Reyn
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Answer 2

The REAL reason is: We just are. We didn't choose to be. I for one, could really care less about whatever biological, environmental, or scientific mumbo-jumbo can be stated to prove it. We're here. Yay~

Elaboration:
χριστοφερως answered the scientific mumbo-jumbo part.

Perhaps the defensiveness of some of our answers is due to the way that you started your question: "Is anyone man enough..."

Answer 3

For me, I cant really explain it. I started an attraction towards the same sex at the beginning of adolescence , and attractions to the opposite sex followed about two months after that.

However, it was NOT a choice! I did not wake up one day and say to myself, "oh, i think I'll be bisexual today"-it was all human nature.

If it were a choice, i would have made myself straight and saved a lifetime of mockery. However, that is simply not the way it is whether I like it or not, so I learned to accept it.

Answer 4

Scientific researchers who specialize in human sexuality have shown that homosexuality is linked to biology and genetics.

An October 2004 scientific research publication stated that scientists at the University of Padua have found that women tend to have more children when they inherit the same genetic factors linked to homosexuality in men. This fertility boost more than compensates for the lack of offspring fathered by gay men, and keeps the “gay” genetic factors in circulation.

A study published in Human Genetics in February 2006 examined X chromosome inactivation in mothers of gay sons and mothers whose sons were not gay. Researchers found extreme differences between women who had gay sons and women who did not.

Another scientific study said that researchers have known for years that a man's likelihood of being gay rises with the number of older biological brothers, but the new study found that the so-called "fraternal birth order effect" persists even if gay men were raised away from their biological families. Anthony F. Bogaert, Ph.D., professor at Brock University, said "The research suggests that the development of sexual orientation is influenced before birth." The older-brother effect was constant regardless of whether the men were raised with natural, adopted or stepbrothers. It also didn't matter if they weren't raised with their biological mothers. If gay younger brothers and older brothers don't have the same home environments, what do they have in common? "They shared the same uterus, the same womb, the same mother," Bogaert said.

Answer 5

the REAL reason.....honestly? no one knows for sure. Nature, nurture or a complex combo of both?

But, i can tell you this much.....it's not a choice. If choosing your sexuality was a choice, I'd most definately be straight. I spent a good 15 years desperately trying to be straight. It just does not work that way.

We are who we are. The sooner you come to grips with that, the sooner you can get on with your life and be happy and productive.

Answer 6

It's simple one man suffers from hard ons when they see women and think I wanna f*ck her or I'd love to get in her pants.
The other guy suffers hard ons when they see a man they like and thinks I'd love to s*ck his.... or go up in him.
And for both men unless they are Bi they don't feel anything for anyone else but the above specified people.

Answer 7

well i think its because they feel more comfortable around the same sex and then there are people who are phsically attracted to the same sex i wouldnt know the answer to that the probly think the same thing we do about the oppisite sex.
Hope this helps

Answer 8

*Yawn*. People are the way they are. Just accept it. If you have a problem, tough, just get on with your own life, mind your own business. Does it really matter WHY people are attracted to others?

Answer 9

It's just the way they are. They have more fun with their own sex than they do with the opposite.

Answer 10

what makes people straight? would you believe its all DNA or some would say GOD.
It is NOT down to choice as that God botherer has said, it is not something you have ANY control over, do you think we would CHOOSE to be a minority??!