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Redway 22-08-2017 03:15 PM

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

vixenk99 22-08-2017 03:17 PM

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

MB. 22-08-2017 03:18 PM

...read the crowd, mate

jaxie 22-08-2017 03:21 PM

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

Littlegreen 22-08-2017 03:24 PM

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_ 22-08-2017 03:26 PM

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'.

Crimson Dynamo 22-08-2017 03:28 PM

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

smudgie 22-08-2017 03:57 PM

Voted Nature.

Niamh. 22-08-2017 03:59 PM

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

Dominic 22-08-2017 04:14 PM

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

Ant. 22-08-2017 04:19 PM

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

Crimson Dynamo 22-08-2017 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic (Post 9577317)
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 22-08-2017 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 9577339)
then lets see the evidence then?

Xq28 genes hun

Dominic 22-08-2017 04:29 PM

Other same sex animals having sex is yet another obvious proof

Underscore 22-08-2017 04:30 PM

People are born gay

joeysteele 22-08-2017 04:33 PM

Nature.

Crimson Dynamo 22-08-2017 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dominic (Post 9577341)
Xq28 genes hun

Ah ok hunty

case closed

sleigh

Wizard. 22-08-2017 04:38 PM

My siblings are straight, so nature.

bots 22-08-2017 04:44 PM

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 22-08-2017 04:49 PM

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. 22-08-2017 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oliver_W (Post 9577386)
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.

:clap1:

Crimson Dynamo 22-08-2017 04:54 PM

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 22-08-2017 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 9577374)
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.

bots 22-08-2017 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redway (Post 9577402)
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. 22-08-2017 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 9577399)
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


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