What Causes Homosexuality?

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Jay520 said:

forevercloud3000 said:

The idea that parenting/social things could dictate which sex you tend towards just doesn't sit well with me. The stories of "An overbearing Mother, Distant Father = Gay Son" isn't based on any actual findings, just quick assumption with no firm statistics. Many people are born with one parent these days....more often than not they are still straight. And aren't ALL mothers a tad overbearing? That is just the Serotonin making them cray cray. This hypothesis was almost entirely based on the child's fem/masc outcome, originally thought to be one and the same with sexual preference. Now the genetic factors that dictated SP also alter what we take in as far as knowledge. A son that is genetically set to be "gay"(hate using these labels) might pay more attention to his mother's actions in relation to his father.....because he wants to be able to court a man like his mom.

I don't know if this is directed at me personally, but if it is, you should know that I personally don't think it's that simple. I think it's a lot more complicated that "this factor causes this preference." Just like we develop personality, sexual preference is no different. I think most would agree that nearly every component of our personality is the result of what we have learned in life (either consciously or subconsciously). But that doesn't mean we can necessarily go back to someone's childhood and say "this definitely caused this." It's more like an extremely complicated balance of different factors that we probably won't be able to fully determine, let alone discover the implication of those factors. Personality may be something learned, but that doesn't mean it's a mathematical function, where we could predict the output if given the input. It's a lot more complex than that. I think sexual preference follows the same pattern. 

As for the genetic factors, they probably do exist. But until there is some conclusive evidence in support of it, I think they have the exact same effects that other genetic factors have on personality; very litte. 

That statement was in no way centered at you, just at the argument as a whole. That is what Psychologist used to say was the reason for the "mental disorder". Then they later found that the doctors who said this didn't base it on any firm study, just on the social disposition that gay was wrong, etc.

And I do agree that aspects of our life are what create our individual "personalities". I am just exclaiming that "sexual preference" isn't part of a personality at all. Limp wrists, lisps when you talk(which comes from the brain trying to pronounce every single phonetic sound instead of ending abruptly like most people do....try it and u will notice you lisp), the way you dress,etc all occure when your brain starts interpreting external stimuli.....yet the way each of us percieves things is also dictated by internal brain function. The brain sees what is happening and tells you to either imitate, repel, or alter behavior to suit you as an individual. Some of these are dictated by the brain hormone levels I spoke of earlier.

at least that is my hypothesis of the issue.