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Originally Posted by Alex's Trip
How can it be both? If it was genetic the other wouldn't matter. Therefor not both.
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are you dense, man?
genetics isn't Fate exactly, Alex's Trip, although there are some people that definitely seem to be born with a high genetic predispostion to be homosexual due to their particular genetic & hormonal makeup & they generally (despite any societal taboos in their general environment) assume a gay lifestyle when they first become sexually active. I of course am not qualified to give any raw numbers about how many people there are who are "born gay" vs. how many people "choose gay"...my best guess would actually be that more people "choose gay" & it's out of societal peer group pressure, hormonal horniness & proximity & their own hang-ups with the opposite sex.
Every animal species on Earth that can possibly be gay has a gay population, I can tell everyone that with certainty.
genetics sets up the threshold & environment determines where you end up amongst that range*, hence
environment is more instrumental to cognitive & behavioral development in humans. But to completely discount nature over nurture or vice versa (like Alex's Trip did) is what makes no sense.
*same deal with intelligence or any other attribute. As far as general personalities, they are largely just the sum of our neuroses.
noumenal & nature scene have offered the topic some much-needed good sense (as usual)...
thewall91, i enjoyed that...i have an essay about the first part of what you were writing about. i should go look for it amongst many storage boxes (groan) & reprint here...