What Is the Nature Of Homosexuality?
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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.
372009
It must be biological for one simple reason. In our country right now, to be homosexual is possibly one of the worst sorts of people to be. Honestly, what sane person would CHOOSE to join the ranks of the most hated people on the planet? It makes no sense. Not to mention the level of social stigma one has to overcome to admit to being homosexual, to live one's life well one must accept the hatred and move on. I doubt many would choose such a life.
108919
Its a little of both. Genetics and envionment. Some studies have shown there is an actual homosexual gene that is passed on only through the mother (X chromosome). Even though you have the gene, doesn't make you homosexual. You need to be put in the correct enviroment. And there are epigenetic (if you don't know this word. look it up on www.wikipedia.com)factors also.
27721
If you cut through all the PC crap, you will eventually come to a single, important truth: sexuality is way too complex to be solely the result of any single magic bullet.  Perhaps more importantly is that children are not born sexually mature, and hence the idea that they are born homosexual is as ridiculoius as the notion that they are born heterosexual.  They are born asexual in that they are not yet sexually mature.\n\nIt is PC to say that there is genetic determinism that makes a person be gay due to hard-wired mental functions from the genes.  This is absurd, because the "hard wires" of the brain aren't really that hard at all.  The brain in a newborn has many, many more synaptic connections than needed.  Throughout life, as we learn and develop more fully, these synapses are reduced in some places and increased in others.  The experiences of life, along with things like diet, make the brain develop as it does in complicated ways.\n\nThe fundamentalist tends to say that the matter is purely a matter of choice.  This is equally absurd.  While it is correct to say that a person is responsible for their actions, the desires, thoughts, and emoptions of the brain are not so easily controlled.  The brain does eventually wire itself in certain ways and it does lose flexibility as time progresses.  But the results are not purely choice.\n\nThe answer is somewhere in between.  There are differences in people's genetic makeup and developmental processes that make some people more strongly predisposed to certain sexaul tendencies, I'd expect.  But the experiences of life will always effect the ways in which the genes are expressed, and this is unavoidable.  Monozygotic twins have the exact same DNA as one another.  If one is a hemophylliac, the other one will also be, with absolute certainty.  The correlations for sexuality, though strong, are not 1:1 like this.  So there ahs to be something more than genes.  No one can positively identify what particular environmental cues or experiences or hormonal cascades are necessary for a given line of developing a particular sexuality, but the fact that we haven't elucidated the path does not in any way mean the path does not exist.
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For the umpteenth time:\n\nIf homosexuality is wrong, so is heterosexuality. For everyone who claims that it is a "choice," I'd ask them to recount the day when they "chose" to be straight. I know that I certainly wasn't given an option, I just knew that I liked girls. It's the same for gay people. They just know. \n\nFor those who claim that it is unnatural, I'd point to the behavior of bonobos, dogs, and penguins as just a few examples of homosexuality in nature.\n\nFor those who say that "it's against the bible," I'd say that it is time to reexamine the old myths and decide whether they really have a place in our modern world.\n\nLove is love is love.
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BOTH.\nBUT I THINK HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SPIRIT.\nAS IS MOST SEXUAL PERVERSIONS.\nI KNOW I WILL GET IN TROUBLE FOR THIS ONE .\nBUT I BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUTH.\nSO MANY HOMOSEXUALS SAY THEY ARE NOT HAPPY AS THEY ARE.AND GOD HAS DELIVERED MANY.\nJESUS LOVES THE SINNER NOT THE SIN.\nIF YOU SAY HOMOSEXUAL IS OK .\nYOU CALL GOD A LIAR\nREAD THE BOOK
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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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Why do you say "a problem"? I think most homosexuals and a lot of straight people would argue with your characterizing homosexuality as a "problem" in the first place.  Getting beyond that major issue with your question, I don't believe that there is any good answer as to the "cause" of homosexuality. There is some evidence for all of these as possibly leading to homosexuality, but I don't think any single one of them is the cause.
847388
Homosexuality isn't a race, it's a sexual preference.
578959
Scientific research has shown that there are genetic differences that have influence on homosexuality...but like any aspect of human behavior, the answers are more complex than a simple answer can give.  There's certainly social, familial, genetic, and other factors all working together that influence both straight and gay behavior.  Those who claim a simple answer like, "it's a choice" or "it's all genes" are both wrong.\n\nWhy does it matter, anyway?  That there are people who are homosexual, always have been and always will be, should be enough for "straights" to treat them just like any other human beings...
110711
there is only one: sexual attraction to the same sex.  Other than that homosexuals come in all shapes, sizes, colors, masulinities/femininities etc.
689613
"everything a gay person does is gay because they are gay themselves" - I love that!! Does it extend to all the mundane day-today stuff too? ;)\n\n"gayness is not a sex act". I'm glad you included that. I get fed up with people saying homosexuality is wrong because gay couples can't procreate. Technically, my DH and I can't have children naturally - does that mean that our love is sinful too? When will people realise that relationships are about love and emotion and not just about sex?
399851
You can love God and be gay. You can be gay and be loved by God. Homosexuality is no more sinful than any other sin. Everyone has sinned. The only difference would be that a true Christian will repent for the sins they know they have committed. Practicing homosexuals generally don't do that.
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(ya-o-ee) Stories in anime or manga which focus on male homosexuality (not necessarily erotic in nature).\n\nhttp://www.animecritic.com/resources/glossary.html
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A current theory of sexual development, the lovemap theory states that we develop our sexual attractions at a young age, based off of experience and genetics. So whether we are attracted to men or women, short hair or long hair, tall people or short people is determined around the age of 3.\n\nHomosexuality being a choice is very unlikely, because it's not a choice that 5% of the population would make if they were aware of it. Who would choose to be ostracized by society, hated, treated like a second class citizen, given dramatically less chances to find love or be accepted? As such, it appears very likely that homosexuality is not a choice.\n\nThe problem becomes that if you follow the Christian religion, saying that homosexuality is not chosen becomes problematic. It implies that a loving God would curse some of his children to never be allowed true love without damning their souls through sin. So many people prefer to think that Homosexuality is a choice in order to make them fit in with their view of how the universe works.\n\nMe? I was born gay. I didn't choose it. It's who I am. And I'm not ashamed of it.
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As a gay person I can honestly say that I don't know. It just is the way I feel naturaly. Like being streight is natural for you. We don't ask to be this way and life would be much easier for us if we had a choice but we don't it is just our nature
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homosexuality is a sin against your Creator, He loves you but hates what you are doing. and yes when we go against how we were made, it is the decay of moral values.\ni  am waiting for the arrows now.