What Causes Homosexuality?

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axumblade said:
Why do straight members make the gayest threads? o.o

But seriously, I feel that there isn't just 1 thing that makes up a persons sexuality. Genes may play a role big role in it, but it's obviously a recessive gene since the estimated 10% (which somebody has argued with me before but we also have to keep in mind there are a lot of closeted people out there who are afraid to come out between minor things like afraid of being judged by their friends or actual persecution by their government).

Somebody also brought up nurture over nature. Instead of arguing against one or the other, I feel it could be both. Two things helped me determine that I was gay. I realized that the women I thought I was attracted to was because of admiration not sexual attraction. The second thing that helped me determine that I was gay was that I realized, that, well, I liked guys. With the whole "nurture" thing, my parents raised me to be whoever I wanted to be. I felt like I was free to discover who I was at a young age. There are people who do "homosexual acts" with other men that still view themselves as heterosexuals (so much to the point where they have wives and kids).

Why is that exactly? I have spent years trying to hypothesize why I love being around dominant women. I always thought I could become deeply emotionally in love with one, just never sexually. One of my best friends is a girl, 22, and she rules her life like "boys" do, she isn't uptight but knows what she wants and just goes for it, she doesn't abide by female standards of how they should act around sex. And I LOVE her for it. Me and her make out every now and then when we are drunk,sometimes sleep in the same bed, but its all in good fun.

Maybe this is similar to the "Bromance" that so many hetero guys seem to be in. It has all the good parts of a relationship(dates, sharring everything, hang out all the time, super chumy) minus the factor of sex.