Why do you think some people are homosexuals/bisexuals?

[Michael-5]

Jay520 said:

There's been a thread on this if you want to read it.

 

I personally lean towards the psychological explanation. Inherent traits tend to have very little to do with any preferences and desires. A very large chunk of a person's behavior and mental processes are the result of what they've learned or experienced. I don't know exactly what factors cause homosexuality, nor do I know when after a person's birth are a person's sexual desires even formed. I can't say for sure there are no genetic factors though, so I won't dismiss it entirely. Sexual preference is 85-90% psychological and 10-15% genetics imo.

What a person learned from this reinforcement and punishment could remain in a person's subconscious for his entire life potentially deciding who he is attracted to and what he percieves as good or bad. There probably aren't any definitive evinronmental factors that for sure causes certain sexual preference though. Considering how complicated and bizarre the human mind is, I'm pretty sure the cause of sexual preference is also complicated and perhaps bizarre. I think sexual preference is caused similar to most preferences of our mind; that is, we learn behavior and form beliefs, personalities, values, etc. as a result of what we learn in life.

This does not mean that I think homosexuality is a choice though, at least not a conscious choice. Homosexuality is no more of a choice than a person's favorite color or favorite music genre or favorite hair color imo. Obviously, people aren't born with these preferences, thus the causes of those are mainly psychological, but that doesn't mean it's a conscious choice. I would say that it's a subconscious 'choice.' Essentially, a variety of factors combine and collide inside a person's mind and it eventually makes them desire certain things over another. 

 

What about random mutations? A lot of disorders are cause by random mutations which affect the population as a whole, and have nothing to do with inherit traits.

Also children raised by same sex and opposite gender parents have identical chances of becoming heterosexuals. If environment made a difference, how come it doesn't here?

As for preferences, a few people came up with this. However, twins separated at birth, raised in different environments typically share similar taste in spouces. They usually marry people with a similar background, similar personalities, and even similar names. Why then can there exist 1 homo and 1 heterosexual in identical twins? It's more common in fraternal twins, but even in identical twins, who are raised in the same household, one can be gay, and the other not.