[DoughtyOne]

I’m not seeking to be argumentative with you. I just don’t understand why one twin turns out one way and the other does, based on environment.

If their mom is a stay at home mom, these kids get the same experience day after day for five or six years.

When they go away to school they are generally in the same classroom up until the sixth grade.

In general terms they are exposed to the same factors day after day after day.

This is their life up until 12 or 13.

Yet one turns out homosexual and one doesn’t. We’ve pretty well established it isn’t gene related.

I don’t see a parental, environmental, educational, or any other type of trigger. None the less one child can turn out normal and the other homosexual.

I don’t think this is easily explained away.

It comes under the heading of, we simply don’t know. At least that’s the way I see it.

[xzins]

In general terms they are exposed to the same factors day after day after day.

And I'm saying they are not: Different experiences, different identities, different associations.

[Roos_Girl]

I can imagine that it would be fairly easy for a weird uncle or cousin or whoever to isolate one twin and take advantage of them for a short time at a family gathering(s).

[Does so]

In general terms they are exposed to the same factors day after day after day. This is their life up until 12 or 13.

The better study would have been to examine the lives of twins who had been separated before 12 or 13. (There are such studies, but not for homosexuality).

[Carry_Okie]

I just don’t understand why one twin turns out one way and the other does, based on environment.

You are assuming they are always together and/or that the home environment alone is determinative. I would argue against both. It is very common for public schools to break up twins. They thus end up with different friends, go to different parties, etc.

ONE experience of sexual assault as a small child is sufficient to cause sexual identity confusion. The key is to realize that pheromones evoke powerful neurotransmitters that lock that behavior into a loop that gets reactivated at every appropriate stimulus, which can be as "innocuous" as a TV commercial. Stimulate the signal, mylenate the nerve axa and voila, a habitual behavior.

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

We are all unique and made in God’s image. Fingerprints are an example of the effects of the environment on 2 identical DNA patterns. Although the environment is exact, our uniqueness expresses itself in many different ways.

http://multiples.about.com/cs/funfacts/a/twinfingerprint.htm