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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (88481)	11/15/2004 7:57:07 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

So are you saying that it is children who are molested by adults of the same sex who become gay? Can you cite a url or something on that? I have heard of isolated cases of that as perhaps explanations for some homosexuals, but I'm pretty sure it's not the norm. My own opinion is that gayness, like alcohol abuse and other things we tend to simplify, probably has a variety of causes. I also read about prenatal brain chemistry as a possible cause. We know from studies of identical twins that if one twin is gay, the other has more likelihood of being gay as well. Some children are beaten, psychologically abused, degraded, and/or abandoned by their same sex parent, and I think some people become gay trying to get what they didn't get from the same-sex parent as a child. Some lesbians, the masculine-appearing ones, sometimes have an extra male chromosome. Female sexuality is much more mutable than male sexuality; some women who live quite a bit of their lives as heterosexual married women meet a woman and just want to be with her instead of a man, still not disliking men or sex with men. Or maybe so, after a very disappointing experience! Of course, women are freer because there is not quite so much social stigma in America against lesbians. Sexuality exists along a continuum. Some people, men and women, are extremely homosexual, some are extremely heterosexual in their attractions. A lot of people are closer to the middle, and because of family pathologies and circumstance may end up with a male or female partner, and do a lot of experimenting along the way. The young of both sexes also experiment, trying to find their way. There are so many examples of homosexuality/bisexuality in the animal kingdom (God's kingdom, of course, so homosexuality could not really be a sin) that it would be extremely surprising if there were not a lot of variation among humans, as well. What I think almost everyone can agree with is that this is a science which is in its infancy in understanding the development of sexual identity. What I am totally sure about is that it is not just a voluntary choice.