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Originally Posted by warlock1935
Based on what I've seen in various peer-reviewed tests, such as the twins study, I'd say that homosexuality is genetic. Some people, however, are about half way homosexual, and their adult sexuality is determined partly by their experiences. On theory I've heard is that the reason almost all socities, from ours all the way back to the cave men, try to keep it in the closet is to keep those undecideds in the heterosexual column and producing children. Remember, up until a few years ago, most kids didn't live to adulthood, and a society that wasn't set up to maximize the number of children would be less able to compete with other societies.
At least, that's the theory that seems to be becoming the accepted one amongst geneticists.
~~Warlock
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half way homoseuxal? Would that be people such as myself that are bisexual? I can remember getting turned on (I didn't realise that was what I was feeling then but now I know) by images of a woman as early as seven or eight but I had 'crushes' on boys too at the same age. My parents are both very straight and born again Christians. To my knowledge I am the only non-straight person in my family but I'm not out in the family so maybe others aren't either.
True story: I can remember at about eight years old being in the car with my mother and my sister who would have been about six. My sister asked my mom what a gay person was and she answered that it was someone that had something wrong with them that made them attracted to a member of the same sex. From the back seat I said 'their isn't something wrong with them they are just different'. Now, I was eight and I don't ever remember ever discussing homosexuality with anyone at all prior to that. Heck, I just learned about sex at ALL that year and I don't think I knew what gay people actually did in bed..i just thought of it in terms of love. So, something was in me at that age that knew it wasn't 'wrong' and it sure as heck didn't come from my parents.