Nature vs. Nurture: Born or Made Gay?
Monday December 19, 2005
Are people made or born gay? Are we all straight until our environment or some traumatic event makes us gay or have we indeed had gay feelings for as long as we can remember? Many theories have been formulated to explain the origin of homosexuality, but no conclusive evidence has been found. Get inside the nature vs. nurture debate!Opinions:
- I was born gay!
- "You can't 'make' someone gay no more than you can 'make' someone straight. Of course environmental factors affect our sexuality. You just can't generalize these types of things. Ultimately what you end up doing is trying to figure out how to stop it-- like it's a disease or something--instead of trying to help people ACCEPT themselves for who they are and help nurture them into healthy relationships." (read more)
- I was 'made' gay!
- "Might any of these factors (in the life of someone male) contribute towards giving him a gay disposition, or at least make him more inclined to seek the love of men? An alcoholic parent, mother or father; A cold parent, mother or father; Having been in a boys boarding school since about 12/13." (read more)
Comments
i believe that a human being is not born with a sexuality weather your straight or gay . i believe it is developed through social and biological human developement to late child hood when young boys go through nocternal emisions and young girls get ther period to adolesence. sexuality and reproduction are totaly two seperate things reproduction is physical but sexuality is psycological . i am a gay person but im biologically capable to reproduce .reprocution in human society is choice .maybe homosexuality is here ecologically for a reason to make sure that a species is not over populated . though humans are a species of ape apes especially chimps use sex not only for reproducion but social bonding between opposite sex and same-sex ,maybe this trate has continued in human evolution of us being apes as we still are but only interlectually more advanced.