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Originally Posted by Quasar
I didn't realise people were being that literal with the thread. Of course I don't think that there are gay babies being born and they are aware of it. But the phrase, 'born gay' is just a phrase.
I don't feel I was nurtured in anyway to be gay. There wasn't anything that helped me sway towards men, nothing that influenced it, which is basically what the nuture argument is about.
When a gay person says I was born gay, they mean that at the time they felt a bit differently or acted a bit differently, looking back when they knew what that meant, it's easy to say, 'I've been gay for a very long time'
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Nurture doesn't mean there has to be a specific pin point of something that made them gay.
It's saying that, just like everything else about that person, it's a combination of EVERYTHING in their life. Therefore you can't have a formula for what makes anyone anything because no two people have the same experiences/life specifically. There are too many factors involved in life to pinpoint.
It's one huge lottery. Depending on which variables in our lives change, we can be different people in different ways, sexuality included.
Like earlier, I wasn't suggesting a different culture would make you gay or straight, I was suggesting culture is ONE OF MANY ways in which someone's life can be different and therefore have created a different person.