If discovered homosexuality is hardwired in the brain, would anything change?
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Why should it change anything?  Homosexuals are what they are; doesn't matter to me if it's a choice or if it's hardwired.\nWhat people do with other consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes matters not a bit.
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According to most scientists and psychologist, being gay is physiological verses psychological. There is a part of the brain called the hypothamalus. In heterosexual men this gland is larger than a heterosexual woman’s which is much smaller in size. Recent studies of autopsies performed on gays reveal the size of hypothamalus’ of homosexuals (both male and female) aren’t as large as a heterosexual male or as small as a heterosexual female.\n\nHomosexuality occurs naturally in most species of animals.\n\nForgoing the physical causes of homosexuality, socialization, environment and personal beliefs often have an influence on whether a person live a gay or straight life. For instance, a person who believes they may be gay might suppress those feelings if they are raised in an environment where homosexuality is considered taboo and self expression is censored. On the other hand, a person with homosexual tendencies may be more willing to explore those feelings if raised in an environment which encourages expression and self individualism.\n\nSince our sexuality doesn’t develop until long after birth, I don’t see how anyone can be born heterosexual or homosexual. \n\nSome uninformed individuals claim homosexuality is a choice. The question to those people would be, “Did you have to choose to be straight.” The answer will almost always be, “Hell no!” Just as a heterosexual could no more “choose” to be gay, a homosexual would have a difficult time choosing to be straight.\n\nAs for religious arguments, the passages in Genesis merely explain heterosexual relationships and does not condemn or even speak to homosexual acts. The only direct mention of homosexuality in the Bible can be found in the Old Testament under Leviticus along with the sins of wearing woven clothing (cotton), eating shell fish, shaving, and not allowing women to preach the word of God, amongst other forgotten sins. These sins were made non-sins by the words of Jesus. That is why good “Christians” can shave, while wearing their cotton briefs and eat oyster without having to worry about going to Hell.\n\nIn the New Testament, many newer interpretations claim that the rapists who came to Lot’s house were gay, but they were rapists, which rape is a sin. In another passage the words used to describe male prostitutes has been translated into “homosexuals” by watered down modern day Bibles. Prostitution is a sin, but at the time, there was no homosexual culture to condemn.\n\nThe most prolific argument against Biblical condemnation of homosexuals came from Jesus who was to be God’s final word on the subject. When given the opportunity to condemn homosexual behavior, He did not.\n\nWhen you see the word “homosexual’ in a Bible understand there was no word to describe homosexuality at the time of the writing of the Bible. Go to the King James Version and read the same passages. Those translations of those same words pertain only to male prostitution and rapists, which are both sins.\n\nLastly, many lost Christians say the Bible says intercourse is for the purpose of reproduction only and the only reason man was put on this earth was to reproduce. Well I can’t find one Christian who says they only have intercourse for the purpose of reproduction. As for the misnomer man was put on this earth for the sole purpose of reproduction, what about people who for one reason or another cannot reproduce? Are they all going to hell? If all of the world’s trees produced fruit, the fruit would lay rotting on the ground.
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Of course not! what gave you that idea?!\n \n Romans 1:26-26 "That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; and likewise even the males left the natural use of a female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males,working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error." \n\n1 Cor 6:9 "What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men."\n\n God hates fornication and homosexuality and lesbianism.  Anyone who practices those things will not inherit God's Kingdom.
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Yes, but not for humans. Our attraction to other people is based on brain processing and not just smelling a chemical.
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There is little/no evidence of homosexuality having a genetic basis. I'd advise you to check into NARTH. They're a secular research organization that does research into the roots of homosexuality. The lead members of the organization are former  leaders of prominent research groups and publishers of prominent journals (ex. American Psychological Association).\n\nTheir general consensus is that homosexuality results from social conditioning and childhood experiences. Check out the website below.
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It is not an abnormality, nor is it a disease. It is a normal, naturally occuring state of existance.Nor is it a mental illness.Homosexuality was removed from the DSM in the late '60's.
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The nature of homosexuality is... love.\n\nLove that transcends what your eyes see, what your ears hear, what your hands feel, what your tongue tastes & what your nose smells...\n\nIts about what's inside your heart... love.
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Sadly, no.  For some reason, people who don't understand homosexuality feel that they are somehow able to generate opinions on the topic.  I don't see why they have such negative opinions on something they don't even understand.
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Maybe consider the effects homosexual parents may have on children in their developing years.  As homosexuality isn't the cultural "norm," they'll not only question why their parents are different, but they'll endure the world's lack of understanding as well.  Start there?
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It would have to. But how can evolution explain how some men are good and some bad? What about mans curiosity about the universe?  This takes a creator to explain this.
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I don't think so. Mental illness displays lack of or excess activity in certain areas of the brain, usually caused by changes in hormone levels. If the brain modified its structure over the years, would medications be able to make the illness manageable?
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Before stating "it can't have been in you ever since you were born" in your question, you may want to check out some scientific studies on the matter.\n\nMy first source shows that homosexuality for males has been linked to the Xq28 in males; second source is on a genetic link of the X chromosome to a gay person's mother; third source is on gene variations on the X chromosome; fourth source states that it "confirms that there is a strong genetic basis for sexual orientation, and that for some gay men, genes on the X chromosome are involved," and the last source is on a link between brain structure and homosexuality.
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Its a complicated answer.\n\nAlot of people in the world try and force their sexuality a certain direction, and actually live their life through like this.\n\nIf your asking whether someone can truely change their sexual preference, honest to themselves, i dont know..\n\nI myself am gay, but in my opinion, lust and love are two different things.\n\nI find men attractive only, but a long time ago i met a girl who was the sweetest thing on the planet, and she was innocent and in my eyes beautiful and i wouldve started something with her hadnt she left my life.\n\nI feel that theres no such thing as gay or straight, but finding love, and choosing whether to deny it becuase of preference, or not.\n\nThe mind has a way of justifying itself, and if you do fall in love first, its afterward that sexuality comes into play, and alot of thoughts and things can get you sexually aroused and therefore introduce "sexual attraction" into the picture.\n\nI dont think an initial prefference can be changed, no. I think if your attrated to guys for whatever reason, your attracted to guys, and thats that. \n\nSome closet people may not like this lifestyle, and its completely possible that they may find something in a woman they like as well, and everything goes good. (but this means they're probably bi) But this doesnt CANCEL out what they liked in men, it just means they made a choice.\n\nLife is about choices.\n\nSometimes you cant choose, like if you dont like women sexually, then you dont, and forcing yourself is wrong, and vica versa.\n\nSexual prefference is something that exists deep within ones mind, and its probably formed during childhood, small bits and pieces of your life that sculpt who you are, and somewhere along the line, connections are made as sexuality develops.\n\nAnyway, i'm dragging on... I dont think sexual preference can be changed. I think it can be ADVANCED, better understood, "moved up to the next level", and whatever those imply.
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In the logic of evolution theory, heterosexual intercourse is likely to be an innate drive, otherwise our species would be bound to disappear. This for the physical part of it.\nNow in the domain of mental perceptions of sexuality, there's a greater part of acquired things rahter than innate ones.\nBut your question actually contains a paradox, as you state about the internet growth (more generally the spreading of information because TV, advertisement, magazines also contribute to make us more, err..., kinky). We are actually being TAUGHT to become more kinky, striving for various alternatives to the classical hetero one to one.
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The American Psychological Association page on homosexuality (link below) may be a good place to start.  There are more links at the bottom of the page.
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I had dreams about being gay a long time before I realized that I was.  Sometimes the subconscious mind knows things before the conscious mind does.  Although I sincerely hope this is not the case with you.  Don't eat chocolate before you go to bed.
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We would probably discover as we explored the final frontier, boldly going where no man had gone before, that there were no new unknown lives to seek out, no new civilizations to study.\n\nIn any case, I do not know why that would change a person's beliefs either way. I don't think it would change who we are inside either. It never did in the past when the explorers searched out "new worlds" such as the Americas and so forth.