<Colin said> The fact that there are groups of siblings who are gay really does indicate that homosexuality does have an inborn cause rather it being environmental.
Not exactly - large studies on identical twins have found that if one twin is homosexual - the other twin is also homosexual 38 to 50 percent of the time. This is not to say that homosexuality does NOT have a biological component, but rather it is not a predetermined immutable trait like eye color or hair color. Personally I think we'll find that there are a lot of factors, biological and environmental that interact to determine sexual orientation and how much biology plays a role probably differs from person to person. Jenny --- colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cynthia Vickery wrote: > > >it just seems like we need more *words* out there > to describe all > >the different ways out there that it's possible to > *be* so that > >we aren't left bumbling about in the darkness. > > > >cindy > > > the thing that bothers me about all this, is why > people even ask the > question. When did you last hear anyone ask 'what > made you > heterosexual?'. The whole premis of this discussion > implies there is > something wrong with homsexuality. Homosexuality is > normal, it is > expressed in all communities and in many species. > > the thing that pisses me off the most is the false > logic people use: I > am was sexually abused as a child. As were many > people. I had a female > friend who also was. I am gay She was not. Yet > people still think I am > gay because of the abuse! If there is any logic in > that, my firend would > have been too. If it was logical, i woudl have been > str8. i didn't like > men, I was afraid of them. That feeling hasn't much > changed! > > > bw > colin > oh and tomboys grow up to be str8 a lot and I know > of men who are fem > who are str8. My john is evry bit the str8 guy > except he loves me. His > upbringing was totally different to mine. he wasn't > at all 'fem', he > played rugger and did all the masculine things. He > still preferred males > when it came to matters of sex and love. Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
