[Redway]

Title hints strongly enough but do you think being gay is learned/acquired or innate?

[vixenk99]

Loaded question, I'm sure but I think one is born that way.

[MB.]

...read the crowd, mate

[jaxie]

Sexual orientation is in your DNA, saw an interesting documentary about it once. It has nothing to do nurture.

[Littlegreen]

Both

I do believe some are born a certain way, however I also think some people are awakened to feelings as they live their life and take certain paths.

[Jack_]

I've always leant more towards nurture but after the work I did on sexuality in my dissertation, I now think the very idea of ~having~ a sexuality itself is a more fruitful and interesting research topic and debate. As Michel Foucault put it when asked whether he believed sexuality is the result of innate predisposition or social conditioning, 'on this question I have absolutely nothing to say. No comment'.

[LeatherTrumpet]

I dont think there is conclusive scientific knowledge to say at the moment

[smudgie]

Voted Nature.

[Niamh.]

I'd imagine nature same as I think I was born straight, but who really cares anyway?

[Dominic]

Yes, people are born gay. It's been proven time over time and I struggle to think why it's still a debate.

[Ant.]

Nature. I'm curious as to how it could be said otherwise

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Dominic

Yes, people are born gay. It's been proven time over time and I struggle to think why it's still a debate.

then lets see the evidence then?

[Dominic]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

then lets see the evidence then?

Xq28 genes hun

[Dominic]

Other same sex animals having sex is yet another obvious proof

[Underscore]

People are born gay

[joeysteele]

Nature.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Dominic

Xq28 genes hun

Ah ok hunty

case closed

sleigh

[Wizard.]

My siblings are straight, so nature.

[bitontheslide]

Its not that simple. Everything in nature is a balance with extremes at either side. The environment will then have an effect on that balance. So the obvious answer is both

[Oliver_W]

I'm not sure how it can be nurture; there are gay people in islamic hellholes where being gay gets you killed, so I can't see the environment making people have gay inclinations, especially when they all have the same upbringing and home environments pretty much.

[Ant.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I'm not sure how it can be nurture; there are gay people in islamic hellholes where being gay gets you killed, so I can't see the environment making people have gay inclinations, especially when they all have the same upbringing and home environments pretty much.

[LeatherTrumpet]

It will be some gene thing right enough as it only affects like 3% of the population and its pretty consistent in every generation

[Redway]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Its not that simple. Everything in nature is a balance with extremes at either side. The environment will then have an effect on that balance. So the obvious answer is both

Just cause there's two opposed sides doesn't mean the answer's somewhere in between. One side can just be wrong.

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Redway

Just cause there's two opposed sides doesn't mean the answer's somewhere in between. One side can just be wrong.

there is no right or wrong with respect to a balance though. All thing in nature revolve around balances. Saying one is right or wrong just doesn't apply.

Lets take for example pH with acid and alkali. At the extremes both can burn the crap out of you, but they still have their place and are necessary. One is no more right or correct than the other

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It will be some gene thing right enough as it only affects like 3% of the population and its pretty consistent in every generation

Not a genetic disease