ITT: I am sitting in my human bio class and homosexuality is genetic. Mind = blown

[uracowman]

I always thought it was a choice that was not genetically affected in the genome. Studies show that gay men have brothers with a 14% chance of having a gay sibling, a 8% chance of a gay cousin and a 7% chance of a gay uncle. It may be X-linked.

mind = blown.

P.S IM NOT GAY

[FrozenMercury]

I always thought homosexuality was a choice... mind blown right?

[professorhard]

Naw they're wrong, that's just an excuse the *******s use.. Let em kno that its a choice and they're all going to hell

[terzter]

meh, that supports nurture more than nature me thinks!

if a girl growing up has a sh!tty father, sh!tty brother, sh!tty uncle/cousin, then she'll learn to hate all men and turn into a lesbian

[phikappa]

I did not choose homosexuality.

[sizzurp]

I be thinking and **** i might be undercover gay,like some times i be lookin at dudes cock when they walk by me or when i play basketball,when a girl walk by me i just look for 2 secs,and another reason is i carry a long coversation to dudes then girls.

[sironous]

like some famous homo said...




Everyone is on a spectrum.. no1 is 100% straight or 100% gay. Most men are close to the 90% straight side of the spectrum, and even he himself said he wasn't 100% gay and how he would sleep with a woman if presented.



So it’s more of a perversion kinda like ppl getting more twisted porn the more and more they watch until **** and trannys.

Makes sense if you think outside what MTV tells you

[vabyss]

Funny how no matter how many times science hands religion it's ass, people still continue to believe religion.

"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."

[Duckenheimer]

I always thought it was a choice

I admit I have no idea how heterosexual men could think this.

[lancs_hotpot]

You thought it was a choice? Pretty silly of you man. If it was a choice there would be absolutely no gay Muslims in the world.

[CleverNickName]

Anyone have any sources on this?

[rangerkid2187]

this is true, I know several gay people and they ALL have siblings that are also gay.

[uracowman]

Anyone have any sources on this?

the lecture we are currently going over.

http://www.bio.utexas.edu/courses/ka...nts/15Pres.pdf

[the_attraction]

whats ur textbook called,

[icewill36]

BRB, choosing be to be ridiculed, bashed, and looked down upon every day of my life

[uracowman]

P.s im not gay

[2Lurker]

Haven't you every thought why some wild animals express homosexual preference?

[mistaballoonhan]

cool study on the subject

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n..._gayscent.html

When homosexual men smelled the odor of male sweat—more specifically, a chemical in the male hormone testosterone—their brains responded similarly to those of women.

The findings suggest that brain activity and sexual orientation are linked. It also supports an opinion held by most scientists, that people are born—not bred—gay.

"This is one more line of evidence that there's a biological substring for sexual orientation," said Dean Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

[Sandman33]

You thought it was a choice? Pretty silly of you man. If it was a choice there would be absolutely no gay Muslims in the world.

Muslims don't tolerate *******ry.

[StaticZ]

I sure as **** didn't 'choose' to like women. Beyond me why people think sexuality is a choice.

[CleverNickName]

I sure as **** didn't 'choose' to like women. Beyond me why people think sexuality is a choice.

[AB25]

That blows your mind, really? After how much sht homosexuals go through, even in the world's most educated nations, I don't think many people would want to willingly endure that. That's not to say there's anything wrong with homosexuals, I have no business disliking someone for a trait of their personal life, and neither should any other straight dude.

[terzter]

When homosexual men smelled the odor of male sweat—more specifically, a chemical in the male hormone testosterone—their brains responded similarly to those of women.

The findings suggest that brain activity and sexual orientation are linked. It also supports an opinion held by most scientists, that people are born—not bred—gay.

"This is one more line of evidence that there's a biological substring for sexual orientation," said Dean Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

How does this support nature more than nurture?? It's basically saying a homosexual's sexual reality is homosexual. lolwut.

I can close my eyes and visualize/create all aspects involved with myself eating a piece of chocolate, and boom, my brain increases in serotonin, akin to actually eating a piece of chocolate! Belief is reality.

Why do science act as if the brain is an uncontrollable "unit" outside the realm of our consciousness, and that the nature of life is predominantly determined by genetics? Rhetorical.

[Saint Ulric]

is this satire op?

they're just speculating using statistics, i'm almost certain they still haven't found any genetic marker that causes homosexuality

[mistaballoonhan]

How does this support nature more than nurture?? It's basically saying a homosexual's sexual reality is homosexual. lolwut.

I can close my eyes and visualize/create all aspects involved with myself eating a piece of chocolate, and boom, my brain increases in serotonin, akin to actually eating a piece of chocolate! Belief is reality.

Why do science act as if the brain is an uncontrollable "unit" outside the realm of our consciousness.

i suppose, but i don't think i have quite the mental control to get horny when i smell dude sweat, regardless of how different i wanna be.

not to mention i'm not sure i could pick the two apart consciously if i didn't see who it came from. if you were in a room and someone brought in a cup of sweat, do you think you'd be able to tell if it was a guy or girls? this was blind testing, not sure how they would be able to trick the system.

edit: all right it didn't say it was blind testing, maybe i read that somewhere else. i don't have the study, just that article. i would assume it was, otherwise yes that test would be ridiculous. but i would think they would be trying to isolate smell as the only factor, telling the people would be a pretty pointless study.

[CleverNickName]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology...al_orientation

[whiskey55]

You thought it was a choice? Pretty silly of you man. If it was a choice there would be absolutely no gay Muslims in the world.

mind = blown

it really doesn't make sense as a choice.

[mistaballoonhan]

i suppose, but i don't think i have quite the mental control to get horny when i smell dude sweat, regardless of how different i wanna be.

not to mention i'm not sure i could pick the two apart consciously if i didn't see who it came from. if you were in a room and someone brought in a cup of sweat, do you think you'd be able to tell if it was a guy or girls? this was blind testing, not sure how they would be able to trick the system.

edit: all right it didn't say it was blind testing, maybe i read that somewhere else. i don't have the study, just that article. i would assume it was, otherwise yes that test would be ridiculous. but i would think they would be trying to isolate smell as the only factor, telling the people would be a pretty pointless study.

actually
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/24072.php

In the study, 82 heterosexual and homosexual men and women were asked to indicate their preference for the odors of underarm sweat collected from 24 odor donors of varied gender and sexual orientation. Subjects made four comparisons, evaluating and chosing between odors from (i) heterosexual males versus gay males, (ii) heterosexual males versus heterosexual females, (iii) heterosexual females versus lesbian females, and (iv) gay males versus lesbian females.

Homosexual men and lesbian women had patterns of body odor preferences that were different from those of heterosexual men and women. In particular, gay men were strikingly different from heterosexual men and women and from lesbian women, both in terms of which body odors gay men preferred and how their own body odors were regarded by the other groups. Gay men preferred odors from gay men and heterosexual women, whereas odors from gay men were the least preferred by heterosexual men and women and by lesbian women.

Overall, odor preference was related to perceptions of odor pleasantness or unpleasantness, but not to odor intensity. Because the perceptual differences were related to odor quality, this suggests that at least some of the chemical attributes that contribute to human body odors are related to an individual's gender and sexual orientation.

[terzter]

i suppose, but i don't think i have quite the mental control to get horny when i smell dude sweat, regardless of how different i wanna be.

Because you're not gay . . . !

not to mention i'm not sure i could pick the two apart consciously if i didn't see who it came from. if you were in a room and someone brought in a cup of sweat, do you think you'd be able to tell if it was a guy or girls? this was blind testing, not sure how they would be able to trick the system.

This is interesting, I want to try this. I have faith that it'd be apparent if the unknown sweat is male or female.

The article doesn't mention this but maybe the homosexual participants would know the sweat is male and then still develop sexual feelings in region of the brain pre-classifed as supposedly FEMALE ONLY. Lol, preconceptions right?

[mistaballoonhan]

Because you're not gay . . . !

so how do gay people have that ability? do they choose to have it? why can't i?