Have twin study results on sexual orientation damaged "gay science" claim that sexual orientation is genetically determined? British researchers in 1992 published a study of identical twins where one of the pair was gay, the chances of the othwer being gay was less than50%.
Source: Michael King and Elizebeth McDonald. Homosexuals who are twins, study of 46. British J of Psychiatry, 407 407-09 (1992)
2007-12-27 07:02:10 · 16 answers · asked by Fearless 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
There is conversely tons of cultural evidence thet youth are experimenting with homosexual sex. Bisexuality and much more material upholding the "right to be fluid in sexuality is avaiable throughout the culture and points squarely to known non-biological basis for homosexuality. Bisexuality by definition is a choice with no genetic links.
2007-12-27 08:06:15 · update #1
In 2005, Boston University psychiatrist Richard Pillard and Northwestern University psychologist J. Michael Bailey found that, in identical twins, if one twin was gay, the other had about a 50 percent chance of also being gay.
This percentage is above the approximately 10% homosexual population and shows the likelihood that homosexuality is linked to genetics.
More recent research includes an October 2004 scientific research publication that stated that scientists have found that women tend to have more children when they inherit the same genetic factors linked to homosexuality in men & that this fertility boost more than compensates for the lack of offspring fathered by gay men and keeps the “gay” genetic factors in circulation; a 2005 study that reported genetic scans showing a clustering of the same genetic pattern among gay men on three chromosomes; a study published in Human Genetics in February 2006 that found extreme differences in X chromosome inactivation in mothers of gay sons and mothers whose sons were not gay; and another 2006 scientific study found that a man's likelihood of being gay rises with the number of older biological brothers even if gay men were raised away from their biological families.
2007-12-27 08:12:08 · answer #1 · answered by χριστοφορος ▽ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
totally, Twin studies prove that some twins are gay while their twin is not,( were it genetic . BOTH twins would be gay 100% of the time as they have identical genes) other studies have failed consistently to turn up a " gay Gene". Now gay activist " scientists" are coming up with statements like " ummm.... welll ....maybe its , like, a buncha genes working together that cause it , y'know/" the hormone wash theory was debunked years ago . In the meantime more than 16,000 organized exgays report that they have made a choice to not be gay and appear , with very few exceptions, to be able to stay with that choice. Anne Heche( Ellen Degeneres's ex) reported to the press that she is happily heterosexual now and enjoying her marriage and her child. Burton Cummings and Little Richard ( both rock stars) have chosen to leave the gay lifestyle. And recently the founder of the lesbian magazine " Venus" has chosen to be straight and now warns about the inherent dangers of the homosexual lifestyle and lesbian feminism. The evidence( however unpopular with the gay community) that it is definitely NOT genetic mounts while the evidence that it is a choice or a psychological maladaption continues to gather momentum.
2007-12-28 02:30:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the study on homosexualism was destroyed by politicians back in 1954. There are still a tremendous amount of practicing homosexualists who have corrected their highly treatable, highly curable mental illness, just as alcoholics have with their prob. They also could tell at an early age that they were not normal. It's the same as asking an alcoholic when he realized that he was a drunk and the answer is almost always, "After the first drink." . . . But for sure, the subject must make that commitment on his own . . . Or he may have to give the remainder of his life to rich and powerful politicians who will control him forever and ever. It's a personal decision that has to be made.
2007-12-27 15:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2007-12-27 15:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see that this damages anything. There is no one definative answer as yet, but a lot of pointers along the way. As a gay man, and having read a fair bit over the years about possible 'causes'; plus my own thinking about it, I tend toward it being a genetic based answer.
2007-12-27 15:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by RICHARD S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean that almost 50% of the second twins turned out to be gay, also? And you think that DISPROVES a genetic link? What do you want, 100%?
What is the percentage of gays among a random sample?
2007-12-27 15:11:25 · answer #6 · answered by dooner75 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no i think sexual orientation as being genetic is being more realistic by science, and about the twins their was a chance the other twin was going to be gay or not gay.
2007-12-27 15:07:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who cares about how or why someone is Gay?
They're Here ...They're Queer! Get over it! They are not going away!
Spend some of your energy on one of earths many problems like the environment, pollution, over-population, war, religious extremism, etc. These are issues that you should worry about, not what 2 (or more) adults do in private.
Happy New Year!
2007-12-27 15:47:08 · answer #8 · answered by steveheremd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in the Science of being Gay...
So I don't give a damn about any scientific research or kinsey reports or anything else that is a study of being a homosexual.
People are who and what they are....Nothing else really matters
2007-12-27 15:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by Wayne 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would say that it has. Nothing has been found that even remotely suggests that homosexuality is genetically determined. Those who say this is true have not 1 case study to point to. It is all based on beliefs that it could be true as opposed to fact that it is true. Homosexuality is a decision made to live a certain lifestyle, just as is true for those who believe that nudity is a good way of life, or those who embrace swinging as a proper life style. They are all based on decisions made, nothing more.
2007-12-27 15:13:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋