The Gay Gene

[The Trendy Wolf]

I have been wondering this for quite some time, and perhaps my peers could potentially shed some light on this topic.

Do you believe that your sexuality is a genetic trait of some sort? Perhaps a recessive trait that isn't necessarily or distinctly "gay" or "straight", or rather it varies from person to person in between these two terms?

I personally believe that you do not have a choice in your sexuality, but you do have the ability to constantly be in denial of it, and therefore hide your sexuality, but this is just a mental hindrance of realizing the inevitable and unalterable truth.

I would also be interested in if you consider "gay" or "straight" to be relative terms when defining someone's sexuality.

Unlike many of my other posts, I will be leaving the discussion up to you all instead of stating everything that I believe to be true on the topic rather than simply saying, "this is my opinion, what do you think of it?" I will alternatively be offering to you, "What is your opinion and rationalization of your beliefs?"

Thank You :D

[darthearth]

I think it's hormone levels in the womb, not genetic. Things turned on for me when I started baseball in second grade. No choice made. My orientation is not relative. It's an absolute Kinsey 6. :-p

[conniption]

The "gay gene", in my opinion, is complete bull. Sexuality is determined by how your brain is "wired", so to speak. Also, the terms we associate with people's sexual orientation are nothing but (useless) labels. Everyone likes different things when it comes to relationships and sex, and these labels fail to properly describe one's preferences.

[Twilly F. Sniper]

It really isn't a gene I don't think. I believe it is hormonal levels as well as some nurture.
It isn't genes, I'm the only LGBT in my entire family, as far as I know.

[Abyssal Echo]

I don't know if its genetics or not. I don't think anyone really knows.
all I know is my mom is straight my father was Bi and I'm gay.

[ksdnfkfr]

I think it is how your brain is wired.
But in the same way your brain is wired
to like chocolate instead of vanilla.
Rather than it being any kind of disorder or anomaly.
I think asking "what makes someone gay?" is like asking
what makes someone like blue instead of red.
Or like winter instead of summer.
Or like Pepsi instead of Coke.
It is purely society alone that makes such a BFD over this
and tries giving it a mystical aspect.

[Gigablue]

There is no single gene that causes sexuality, but there are several that play a part. Something as complicated as sexuality cannot be controlled by only one gene. Prenatal hormone level also play a role.

[The Trendy Wolf]

It isn't genes, I'm the only LGBT in my entire family, as far as I know.

That doesn't mean that there isn't one because there hasn't been one in your family. Consider it to be a recessive trait if it was in fact a gene.

[Gigablue]

That doesn't mean that there isn't one because there hasn't been one in your family. Consider it to be a recessive trait if it was in fact a gene.

A single gene for homosexuality doesn't make sense. Homosexuality is kind of a reproductive dead end, or at the very least reduces the number of children people have. If there were one gene, it would probably have been eliminated by natural selection.

[sqishy]

I don't know, really. But I think that if sexuality is genetic, then homosexuality is a mutation as it cannot be passed on by reproduction (for obvious reasons).

[Lovelife090994]

A single gene for homosexuality doesn't make sense. Homosexuality is kind of a reproductive dead end, or at the very least reduces the number of children people have. If there were one gene, it would probably have been eliminated by natural selection.

Good point. If most homosexuals refrain from sex with the opposit sex and therefore not to have kids in that manner how would the gay gene be carried over if only homosexuals, not bisexuals maybe unless heterozygous have it? Wouldn't it be recessive?

[Fanta_Lover44]

That's an interesting idea... I think you're just born that way. So possibly? I'm not sure though and I've got no evidence for either side.

[satarra3180]

I definitely do not believe in a gene. Maybe some are born predisposed, in a way...some choose...either way is fine. I think we are just innate sexual beings but society has evolved in a way that urges people to put themselves in one box or the other.

[Jalinta]

I think it is how your brain is wired.
But in the same way your brain is wired
to like chocolate instead of vanilla.
Rather than it being any kind of disorder or anomaly.
I think asking "what makes someone gay?" is like asking
what makes someone like blue instead of red.
Or like winter instead of summer.
Or like Pepsi instead of Coke.
It is purely society alone that makes such a BFD over this
and tries giving it a mystical aspect.

I think this is a really good way of putting it - I think it is something natural, that you don't really have any control over. Maybe in part there's something to do with nurture, but for the most part I do think it's mostly just how people are born.

[britishboy]

I know this is gonna sound bad but it has substance. Obviously all living things are designed to reproduce so not being able to do that is a large change. Natural selection gone wrong could explain it or something alot less serious, too high female chemicals, similar to someone who is transgendered.

[Harry Smith]

I know this is gonna sound bad but it has substance. Obviously all living things are designed to reproduce so not being able to do that is a large change. Natural selection gone wrong could explain it or something alot less serious, too high female chemicals, similar to someone who is transgendered.

Yeah sure something must of gone wrong to create us horrible homosexuals

[teen.jpg]

Is it really that hard to accept people as they are and leave it at that?