Given all this, the Hewletts conclude, “Homosexuality and masturbation are rare or nonexistent [in these two cultures], not because they are frowned upon or punished, but because they are not part of the cultural models of sexuality in either ethnic group.”
The finding with regard to homosexuality is perhaps not that surprising. As the Hewletts note, other researchers have documented cultures where homosexuality appears not to exist. If homosexual orientation has a genetic component to it — and there is increasing evidence that it does, in many cases — then it would not be surprising that this complex human trait (one that involves non-procreative efforts) would be found in some populations but not others.
So, they’re saying that homosexuality has a genetic component, but they can’t find it here, so it doesn’t exist here. But it does in others.
LIARS!
It’s a choice. You don’t choose the eye color, hair color, etc, you’re born with (but can change it afterward, obviously with contacts and hair dye), but I believe you do choose to be gay or not.
actually it is becoming more and more obvious there is no genetic component. that is one of the reasons the homosexuals have gone silent on the issue.
Perhaps in a culture where women do not “defraud” their husbands, as the Apostle Paul put it, perversion is naturally kept at bay.
i am starting the rumor that they have found the gene for homosexuality, but are afraid to publish it for fear couples will abort babies that are found to possess it.
that would be the ironic end of the pop culture war...
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homosexuality is a continuum, and nearly every culture has one to two percent of “gays” and a lot of bisexuals who could go either way.
In many African tribes, homosexuality is taboo, so no one will admit it.