Nature or nuture?

I hear some people say that you are born into whatever sexuality that you hold, but others claim that you chose it. What do you think?

Personally, I dont think its absolutely one or the other; both play a role in your development. But I feel that nurture plays a larger part. If you are brought up being told to suppress your feelings or that you are wrong, I think you will eventually accept that regardless of your natural inclinations.

 

The impact of environment on the psyche is overstated. Nature plays a far bigger role.

 

I'm not gay or anything, but I saw this post from the front page. I deffinitley think people are born gay, and there is good evidence to back this up.

 

Both.

 

Interesting, today I was just thinking about this issue and I came to an ambivilant non-conclusion. Yes, there is evidence of people having genetic predisposition to their sexuality, but then there are so many supposed het ppl coming out as gay at different times of life.

Then there are those of us who are bi. Where do we fit in? Are ppl born with a predisposition to love anything that moves?

Personally, I favor the idea that most of us are bi, that there are very few truely straight and truely gay ppl, but more of us in the large part of the bell curve who can swing either way.

Now, due to conditioning, some of those will identify more straight and others will identify as gay, but either could probably with very little prodding do someone other than the preferred gender. (Think guys in prison or thrown together in the army or navy).

I think it is nature AND nurture at play here.

 

Genetic pre-programming: One half of us guys on the outside, more like girls in the brain. The other half, girly on the outside, guys in the brain.

Prenatal Biology: Where transexualism happens, a totally different thing to homosexuality

Nuture: Being that one guy across 2 or 3 school years when you're a little kid that gets treated like a dad or a little baby son by the girls, learns and imitates girl looks that work best on guys. or the ones that get treated like a mum or little baby daughter by the guys, learns and imitates girl voices that work best on guys.

And then from a little kid onwards spending you're life getting treated just that little bit differently by every straight person, whether they know you are gay or not, and not realising it cos you have nothing to compare it to (you cant get in someones elses head to compare).