What do you think the "causes" of homosexuality or bisexuality is & why?

Question

This is not to offend anyone- I myself am bisexual. I just want to know the personal opinions of other people. I've heard alot of opinions (reasonable or not) from "it's pure choice" to "hormones" and "born".

What do you think?

Answer 1

I've been told by evolutionary biologists that new research indicates male homosexual behavior was in part a way to cement male bonding in tribal and hunter-gatherer societies. A man that gave another man a portion of his manhood and seed was demonstrating a form of what we have earlier come to call blood brotherhood. Not for nothing was a certain kind of pleasure involved as well (and as a carry over from the evolution of the same type of behavior in animal species and groups).
For various cultural reasons, larger groups of people have put restrictions on this behavior, and since its pull is often the strongest during times of battle, the restrictions increase in fear that the bonding rituals will carry over into life after the battle and affect the reproduction necessary to replace depleted male population.
But these bonding urges are still with us, and just as there is a pecking order of dominance, there has evolved such an order in the relative strengths of these bonding urges in the overall population.
Psychological factors enter into individual decisions as to how to deal with these urges, as do a variety of cultural attitudes.

Answer 2

we talk about genes and there is almost no evidence of any physical difference between gay and str. none nada rien meiyou

i think we do it because we want to avoid the things we do know a lot about - the childhood conditioning that resulted in getting gay desires

these are causes we know about, that are proven (early family problems) and apparently never, ever, are allowed to discuss.

the term 'collective denial' springs to mind.

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Sources:
Masters and Johnson: “The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today.” after reviewing the studies. (1985) *

Cohen, Boellstorff: "Despite findings that remain inconclusive, contested and sometimes irreproducible, the biology of human sexual variation has gradually become respectable." Review in Scientific American. ** by Boellstorff and Cohen (1997) Scientific American , commenting on LeVay and Mondimore’s books.

Hamer: "In other words, some people were gay partly because of their genes and some were gay for other reasons." (Page 107).***

Hamer: "In fact, we never found a single family in which homosexuality was distributed in the obvious sort of pattern that Mendel observed in his pea plants." (Page 104)

Grist: an interesting idea! gay practices were common in stone age cultures

Answer 3

Self-acceptance

Answer 4

I think people are giving into some sexual tendencies and behaviors- I do not believe you are born with it- or that there is a genetic strand of some sort (still havent even found evidence to back that up)

I think the majority of the crowd do it as a sexual fantasy being acted out- It is a choice- I know women who have been screwed over by men and are now lesbian---- Hence that was a choice.

Just my personal opinion that you asked for

Answer 5

to: MR MOM your full of it there no such thing as a DNA

anyway to aswer this question you must first open your mind to all possibilities.. for all we know theres more than one answer... personally i know alot of gay people i had a group in school to help people most were abuse at a young age... but see im gay and i wasnt abused, and i refuse to believe that i was born gay. i hate to believe my life was planned out at birth..... ok so my answer is it was my choice.. a very subsconcious choice, but a choice somewhere along the line hope i helped

Answer 6

This is constantly discussed here . theres a laundry list of theories , none backed by any definitive proof .

Answer 7

The cause really doesn't matter. They're still like everyone else and should be treated that way. Good luck. 2D

Answer 8

let me tell you, the real reason,, gays are born gay, there is DNA make up in our bodies and theirs makes them attrarcted to the same sex,, doesnt make them bad people, just have different desires

Answer 9

probly nature vs nurture idea or u just are born that way

Answer 10

i personaly think that its just that your born that way..its kinda choice its like act on it or not.