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It may be more of a physical or emotional trauma at a very early age. Even school mates 'taunting' may make someone rebel against the 'norm'. Such as 'Billy likes Suzie, Billy Likes Suzie!' Billy: "No I don't. I'll show you!' And proceeds to kiss Marty!

I enjoyed reading this theory. It may account for some of the gay phenomena, but my feeling (I know sounding like a lib) is this cannot explain all gays.

"but my feeling (I know sounding like a lib) is this cannot explain all gays."

And it probably doesn't. But without knowing the individual reasons why someone is 'gay' it is nothing more than conjecture, since science doesn't back the 'genetic' theory.

It may also have been a 'life style' choice based on 'example' as well.

But deviating from the norm is nothing new, and probably will get a lot worse before it gets better.

"I enjoyed reading this theory. It may account for some of the gay phenomena, but my feeling (I know sounding like a lib) is this cannot explain all gays."

The simple fact of the matter is that we don't understand why people are attracted to or repelled by the same or opposite sex. We don't understand much at all about how our brains work, for example. In the hard sciences, they have theories that explain (more or less) everything. When they don't, the theory gets revised until it does, or discarded, and a new theory developed. In the social sciences (so-called) they don't have anything like a "Unified" theory. They just tack on new theories as they come along, as long as they explain some aspect of how or why the mind works as it seems to do. Actually, the most reasonable explaination I've ever heard was the "Ontogeny recapitulates Phylgeny" thing. We have a lizard brain, with a bird brain on top of that, and a mammal brain on top of that! Lots of room for all kinds of quirky things to happen there.

I've had to take a lot of psych classes as a wanna-be teacher, and darn few hard science classes. I'm actually in my first real science class right now (and FReeping when I should be doing chemistry)but it looks to me, frankly, as if science is still WAY too young to have learned much of anything at all. It's way older than the social "sciences" of course, but until someone has a unified field theory of mind, I'm not holding my breath waiting for an understanding of why I'm the way I am, not to mention anyone else!