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Genetics?

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I was just thinking:

Two of my paternal cousins are gay [21 and 23]. They are both out and like to club on Sunday nights and have no problem with their sexuality.

I have same sex attractions and would love to hang out with my cousins, although I don't fit in with them. I would seem like the odd ball.

Is it genetics that we all three are "in the same boat"?
 
There does seem to be some kind of genetic component, although I think the only real recent study showed that guys who had lots of older brothers tended to be gay. Wha? I think it was just the odds that one of the brothers would be gay. . . .
 
I think there may be a genetic component to homosexuality. That said, I think that's all it is - a component.

Lex
 
I believe that it is genetic, just like
everything else. I also have two cousins that are gay. One male one
female on the Paternal side.
 
I'm a firm believer that genetics plays a huge factor in homosexuality. I have at least 4 homosexual members in my extended family. It seems like there is at least 1 homosexual in each generation...
 
IHeartMarco said:
I'm a firm believer that genetics plays a huge factor in homosexuality. I have at least 4 homosexual members in my extended family. It seems like there is at least 1 homosexual in each generation...
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I see you're a Nuke fan [As The World Turns with Luke and Noah]. I love their storyline on CBS!
 
Yup....it is nature, not nurture.
 
rareboy said:
Yup....it is nature, not nurture.
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I agree with you 200% I think your born gay some people say oh being gay is a choice like we wake up one morning and say oh I think am going to be gay today and maybe for life its very sad how some people think
 
It's probably a lot "nature", but there's probably some nurture or other circumstances in there too.

That being said, the whole brother thing is based on a woman's testosterone reservoir. The more boys she has, the less she'll have for the next boy, I read somewhere it probably has to do with either testosterone or androgen amounts (in the whole brother scenario).

Then again, I'm gay, and my younger brother isn't.
 
Does seem like it happens a lot more frequently in certain families. The guy I am involved with right now just found out his sister is a lesbian.
 
breatheH20 said:
That being said, the whole brother thing is based on a woman's testosterone reservoir. The more boys she has, the less she'll have for the next boy, I read somewhere it probably has to do with either testosterone or androgen amounts (in the whole brother scenario).
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do you have any basis for this? where did you read that because it sounds really ridiculous.
 
That's so wrong though. Testosterone doesn't make one straighter. It just enhances the sexual orientation that you already have.

I've seen so many different flavors of gay man. The typical passive, soft-spoken one to the one that is very active and has a jock-y voice and loves sports, being aggressive, and dominating. They are not just 'acting' they really are that way.

If you're gay and you have less testosterone, you will simply be gay but have a lower sex drive. You'll get angry less, and will want to settle down more.

If you're gay and you have high testosterone, you'll still be gay, but you'll have a higher sex drive, so if anything you'll be MORE gay.

Gay men and straight men alike both have the same oomphiness in what turns them on. Women have more 'bisexual' arousal patterns regardless of the gender. We really are more alike than we're different, so analyzing this to death is probably just gonna get us discriminated against more, not less.

Stereotypical gay men are more accepted in society because it's still very heterosexist and ruled by straight men, but more masculine gay men usually cause trouble for traditional straight men because they're on the same levels and can compete with them for social success. Whereas it's easy for straight men to label a sissy as "The Other" and they don't require them to look inside themselves and be introspective, which is what it takes to be a better person.

If anything, I'd say masculine gay men are discriminated against more, but on TV you usually only hear the nelly boys shrilling and whining. They tried to make a tv show about just a regular gay man but it got canceled because people thought it was too boring. Then there's the whole thing where in gay groups you usually only have one masculine, un-stereotypical man and the rest are effeminate gays. So they make the rules because quite frankly, they do more for the community than the macho guys- gay or straight. But that makes sense, because having a more feminine personality does make you more of a caregiver.
 
Another thing, a lot of the gay men that volunteer for studies about sexuality are obviously gonna be your stereotypes, because bless their hearts, they couldn't act "straight" if they tried. And again, the effeminate guys are gonna try to do more for the community and the greater good- although sometimes their efforts unfortunately backfire.

If more masculine gay men came out, it would be a different story, but then again being masculine naturally comes with its own problems. They're gonna be just as hardheaded as straight men when it comes to expressing their feelings and identity.

I don't really believe the brother thing. Like a poster said, he's the older brother and he's the gay one. Even if it's more true than not, it could just be a damn coincidence already.

Homophobia in general is stopping us from researching this issue further.
 
pnfan said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_hormones_and_sexual_orientation


Homosexuality is certainly biological, but I doubt it is genetic. One reason being that the same proportion of homosexuals can be found in every society. Also evolution would have eliminated any "gay genes".
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Just a thought...

Maybe the gay genes survive because the gay gene is a recessive gene and only causes gayness if a person gets both recessive gay genes from both parents. Maybe some straights are carriers in that they have the gay gene from one parent, but the straight gene from the other whereby the straight gene becomes the dominant one and therefore the end result is that they are straight?

On the other hand it's probably not that simple.:confused:
 
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