True, but we should be careful not to oversimplify the idea of nurture being the prime factor when it comes to determining sexual orientation. It is likely to be a specific event or combination of events that causes the shift, rather than just a general environment growing up. Since even in the same household no two children’s experiences during childhood are the same, this would seem very plausible and the trigger could be something very innocuous or benign.
Each soul is unique... Having raised four children I can attest to that.....
“It is likely to be a specific event or combination of events that causes the shift, rather than just a general environment growing up.”
Very true. The environment sets the predisposition, then a triggering event sets the pattern.
In one situation, I was working with a very strong willed lesbian activist. She had a very dominant controlling religious mother who ran her life in all aspects. She went away to college and had a lesbian experience. When she told her mother, her mother’s response was... then “If you are gay, you are no daughter of mine!”
She instantly achieved the separation from her mother and the freedom she had been seeking since she was 12 yrs old. The gay community is a very strong self validating community, much the way gangs are for teenagers. It gave her a new identity and peer pressure group.
This young woman did not have a predisposition to being gay, thus it created a lot of inner turmoil. She became an angry activist as if she could convince others that her lifestyle was ok, it would validate her and she could accept herself.
When she realized her pattern, it set her free.