Homosexuality - nature or nurture?!

[immense]

personally i believe it's down to nurture and deep down you control it (yeah i know flame me not bothered rly lol) HOWEVER i cannot say this for sure because i'm not homosexualllll

You control your heterosexuality!

[Bun]

You control your heterosexuality!

sorry was that a interrogative or a declarative? im confused

[immense]

it can be both

[Bun]

it can be both

yes i know thats that's why im confused jake

[immense]

answer both then

[Misawa]

Definitely genetic. Have a few friends who are gay and they all say the same.

[Bun]

i'm not arguing here (seriously cba with that im gng to watch a movie now so peace) but i dno why i just THINK homosexuals in general would prefer the view that it's genetic over nuture/influences. maybe thats just me being a cynical little bar stool idk

[FlyingJesus]

It pains me to see our society still be so homophobic even to this day. In my school for example i know for a fact two of my friends are gay. I suspected it of them for a while and it took a lot of persuading (telling them i'll still think of them the same etc) on my part to get them to admit. They are too afraid to even tell their parents, gay jokes in schools are very common(at least in mine).

My freinds live in fear of others finding out every day and this to me is very sad.

I say let people do and be whatever they want, as long as it doesn't affect others in a negative way it's ok.

So do you have an answer or what

Definitely genetic. Have a few friends who are gay and they all say the same.

I have plenty of gay friends who laugh at the implausibility of it being a genetic thing, so being gay seems to not actually mean you have access to secret cult knowledge of the human psyche. Shocking, I know.

[Eoin247]

So do you have an answer or what.

No i don't have a solution if thats what your asking. I was just commenting, but hopefully in the future people can be who they really are without fear of others as our society becomes more informed and reasonable.

[immense]

I think it's nurture. Obviously, I don't think this thread will have any sort of conclusion because if any of us had a definite answer we would have answered one of the many unanswered questions in the world we live in. I think this because I start with the belief that we are shaped by things that happen in our life. For example, we might become religious because a loved one dies. I have heard tales (maybe that's all they are) of people changing their sexuality because of a really bad experience. That isn't one of my reasons though because yeah I think when you're young you learn to talk, learn to walk, learn to do everything and I think your sexuality is defined pretty early from your surroundings.