Quote:It was actually me who brought up the point that homosexuality was not taboo back then.Which would be an environmental factor.


It can be natural without being biologically born with it. There is a big difference between the two. For instance in certain types of Albatross female and female relationships form and can produce one egg a season which they look after together as its apparently a full time job looking after a small chick. This only happens among the birds when there is a direct shortage of males. This is homosexuality due to an environmental factor,they are not born as gay birds. That's an example of animals responding to environment.


And most information I have seen seems to suggest a mixture of nature and nurture ,which makes more sense to me.

 

Is THIS what you were waiting for a reply on?  

 

I can accept that in certain instances where male populations are low, female albatrosses mate with a male once, then form female/female relationships to care for an egg or small chick.  I can accept that that is an environmental factor where there are not enough males to form the traditional male/female bond and due to that environment they adapted. 

 

Let's apply this same environmental model to humans.  It is estimated by 2020, there will be 30 million more men in China, then women.  Is there even a minor spike in the number of male homosexuals reported there?  Not that I have seen.  Instead, the environmental factor means young men take more risks to try to achieve a higher status in life so they can attract a female (like breathing in that disgusting inner city air for starters). They also become more violent as their testosterone levels are heightened due to the constant competition for the attention and favor of females.  And we are also seeing shocking copycat instances of single, young to middle-aged men senselessly attacking young children in schools as a way to exact revenge on an environment which they feel inadequate or incomplete living in as there are not nearly enough females to maintain a stable society.

 

I will not wholly reject the concept that a person could have some sort of environmental influences which may trigger homosexual behavior.  But I do not find it as likely as the biological explanation I have repeatedly endorsed.

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