Conservative literature would have you think differently!
They're subjugating our schools into gay production lines!
ooooh man, I HAVE TO hunt for this thing someone posted once which you just reminded me of, like years ago on a forum, fuck it was just hilariously retarded.
I find the subject matter of this thread somewhat confusing. I'm always tentative about these sort of studies. Nevertheless, I just read the published study. It's quite interesting. It certainly seems to overcome the Darwinian paradox, as they label it, regarding homosexuality as having a genetic root, yet not being passed on owing to the nature of homosexual relations.
I've always found it weird to consider it a paradox when the bell curve principle can account for it... some men are rather feminine, some women are rather manly (androgenous features, or strong masculine/feminine features), and men and women are attracted to a wide variety of such traits... it is unimpressive that some men like particularly butch women, or women particularly feminine men, or that this would curve out to extremes where the dominant traits one is attracted to are found dominantly in the one sex rather than the other, and one thus has homosexual desires more frequently than heterosexual desires (just as I have caucasian desires more frequently than asian desires - given the traits I like, there are more white women who arouse me).
as for the sex itself, how much of this is socialized, I'm inclined to ask. Did Greek youth abhor being the passive sexual partner of older men in ancient Greece, or did they enjoy anal stimulation? (having no concept of homosexuality, and no need to resist it on principle). Do women have a particular inborn preference for a large penis in their mouth, rather than a vagina? in other words, is there any good reason to suppose one cannot easily enough find sexual satisfaction in accord with the body parts which happen to coincide with the traits they're drawn to?
do homosexuals, when interviewed about their development, say 'first I knew I loved penises in my mouth and butt, then I realized only males had penises, so though I found women sexy as hell, I just decided I would have to be gay'? or is it more like we know from our own hetero experience, you just find yourself attracted to girls, before you even know what a vagina or sex is, and such details are much later concerns when it comes to actually succeeding in sexual gratification with that object one desires?
depends really where you define the important facet of homosexuality, how you're ultimately going to regard it. If a woman doesn't enjoy or climax during penetration, but loves oral sex from a man, is she gay? if a man likes a finger in the ass during oral sex from a woman, is he gay? if a woman likes feminine looking men, is she gay? what about men liking butch women? what if a man is attracted to very feminine men, and again, the same with women? ...coming down heavily on one particular combination of such behaviors and desires seems profoundly unwarranted, and merely a cultural curiosity of ours, a distinction of convenience for social reasons, but psychologically or physiologically indistinct, and thus far from any measure of pathology.
It's about as "wrong" in Darwinian terms as two people with recessive short genes (to speak extremely unscientifically), producing a rather undersized young son... his competative survival and reproduction chances are far lesser than those of people whose parents had such genes as to produce a normal sized or tall and strong young man, it's merely his parents' genes evolutionary misfortune that this combination is what was brought about... the parents, the child himself, the species, none of them might care at all about that fact, and the same is the case with our artificial little distinction of 'gays' from the 'normals' (as if y'all don't mock your friends who're attracted to weird lookin or fat girls!), it's a mere misfortune for that which itself doesn't matter (unless someone here does think it is important that each and every person's genes be reproduced, and thus it should matter to us that a small percentage of the population misdirect their affections from that goal, aiming for anal sex, or patriotism, or life in the clergy, or other anti-reproductive desires...).
your posts are so enlightening and visionary, take this one for example. Please explain what Im clueless about when it comes to this subject ? Give me something other than "homosexuals have feelings too". They are faulted, they are attracted to the wrong sex... whats left to know ?
