Is Being Gay Genetic?

Question

Some groups like http://www.narth.com/ say being gay is not gentetic other groups say it is.

What do you say?

Answer 1

It's not genetic. If a gay man made a baby, the baby wouldn't turn out to be gay. But being gay DOES have something to do with how the baby is made, meaning it's biological. I don't believe being gay is a choice.



Recent studies have shown that sexual orientation might have to do with pheromones. Pheromones are odors that are involved in sexual arousal; homosexual men and heterosexual men respond to two different odors, but homosexual men and heterosexual women respond to the same one.

Answer 2

Actually what you are saying makes perfect sense to me. There is science to this. There are several theories as to why a person is gay. The most prominent I have read is a work by Simon Le Vay. He determined - through autopsy - that gay men and straight men have one single difference: the size of their hypothalamus (a gland in the middle of your brain and well known to be the source of sexual stimulation in human beings). With gay men it is small and fluffy were as in straight men, it is solid and large. He repeated this experiment with lesbian and straight women and found the reverse. Straight women had small/fluffy gland were as lesbian has large/denser gland.

So hypothalamus size wise:

Gay men = Straight women

Lesbian women = Straight men



Following years of studies, he determined that this gland is developed before birth. When he examined pregnant mothers during period of pregnancy he found that this gland gets developed during the 6th month of pregnancy. If the mother body thinks she has a daughter, she would give Oestrogen (female hormone). If she thinks she has male son, she would give Testosterone (male hormone). For some un-explained reason, the mother would give the wrong hormone. Depending on how long this hormone is given, the child may come up as Bisexual, straight acting gay guy, camp gay guy, or in extreme cases transsexual (a person who believes he is in the wrong body!).



Research into how to determine why this switch happens has been blocked. From one side, the church and religious groups would not accept it (because this would mean centuries of prosecuting gay/lesbians was a crime but more importantly it is a serious shake to their belief). From the other side, gay groups have pressured government and other organisation not to proceed in such research because this would mean there is a way to eliminate gays from existence! Hosptial scans can determine if a mother has son/daugther and a simple blood test can deterimine what hormone the mother is giving. The latest work as done by an Italian scientist two years ago who tried to determine if the mother had a genetic differences that results in this switch and managed to find some correlation in that most mothers with gay/lesbian children had actually gay/lesbian brothers and sisters!



See it is much more complicated that this but I hope I explained to you in best possible way. And if you are wandering how a bisexual man/woman hypothalamus would look, well it is medium size/denisty, they got mix of hormones and thus they would like both!



Hope this helps explain to you why most gay people never change. Those who call themselves Ex-gays then to be bisexual ones (Freud through hypnosis determined 92% are bisexual by nature!).



Dr. FS

Answer 3

ignor the flat earth society. Read books by actual scientists that don't have a religious or moral gender. Read A Seperate Creation by Chandler Burr and you'll find that a study was done that shows undeniable evidence that in Men I can't speak for women but in men in the region of xq28 somewhere lies a gene or genes that is shared by the vast mafority of gay men. The guy above suggests it doesn't make sence in terms of evolution however there are theories that suggest it would aid the survival of a tribe, also as its on the X chromozone it doesn't conform to the laws of evolution. He also suggested lifestyle factors but this was disproven as calafornia and San Fran aside throughout the world the statistics are much the same regardless of things you may think would be highly influential like religion and culture.

Answer 4

A gay gene does not make sense from the standpoint of the theory of evolution. How could a gay gene could propagate among a population to the present day level of about 14% of the world's population and around 50% in California.

Answer 5

Some studies indicate that the tendancies in men are likely to have larger genetic influences, while in women it is likely to be more by choice. The methodology is as follows: behaviour patterns that tend to be distinctive and constant over time, would tend to indicate genetic influnces at work, while behaviours that are less well defined and/or change over time would tend to be less genetically influenced. Now, studies of sexual patterns in men indicate that preference tends to be distinctive (exclusively one way or the other) and tends not change over time (always one way or the other). In women, the studies show that the preference tends to be less exclusive ("switch hitters" or "goes both ways") and tends to vary over time (for example, high occurance of "experimental" phases).



And anyway, what does it matter if it's genetic or by choice? Who has any right to be judgmental of anyones else's lifestyle? As long as they keep their sexual escapades private, why should I care what they do in private?

Answer 6

It's not what I say but what God says. It's an abomination to the Lord.It is a sin and God does not place sin into classifications ( a white lie is a sin, murder is a sin,...so forth) God would not allow people to be born into THIS sin with no hope for reversal ( or so as scientists claim) Because the choice of a gay lifestyle is more acceptable these (latter) days just shows the ways of this wicked world and how close we really are to the Lord returning to put an end to it all.

Answer 7

Probably. Either that or it's the result of some artifact durring development that makes people gay (or straight). Either way I think it's something one is born with, much the same way one is born right handed or left handed.

Answer 8

No, that's what the world wants you to think so they can make it legal to let gay people be married cuz "Its nothing they can control"



You choose to brush your teeth.. as well as shower so being healthy is not genetic... You CHOOSE to be gay (which is NOT right)

Answer 9

I think it's more of a hormonal imbalance. lol if it was genetic, i don't think gay people would be in existence.

Answer 10

That's like asking if being a boy or girl is genetic...

Being nice or a jerk is genetic...

Being giving or greedy is genetic...

I think it is how you were born, just one challenge among many we face in this life.

Is being straight genetic?

Answer 11

it dependa on ur soul not ur body so it's not genetic it's ur way of living n thinking n how ur life has affected on u .

Answer 12

Absolutely not

Answer 13

of course it's not, being gay is a person's choice (a wrong one of course).

Answer 14

NO