I’d guess imprinting.
The first sexual experiences can be powerful things.
I’d also guess that is why in cultures where one’s first encounter is likely to be on wedding night, with all subsequent early encounters accomplished with the same partner, the divorce rate is low, especially compared to cultures where one’s early encounters are spread across numerous partners, blurring the focus of the imprinting.
Exactly. Imprinting that can happen many many years before puberty. Maybe as an infant.
I agree. I doubt there is a genetic basis for homosexuality; it seems to be the sort of trait that would eliminate itself from the gene pool.
Homosexuality propagates itself through recruitment, typically through the imprinting of first sexual experience that you suggested. I can’t speak to girls, but boys start to get their sexual curiosity around 11 or 12, and begin to form their sexual identities around 14. By the time they are 17, their sexual preferences are pretty well set. It’s my belief that left alone, a boy will naturally be attracted to girls of about the same age and maintain that attraction for life. However, if he is “seduced” by an older male, he can be “turned” to homosexuality with a bent for pedophilia. The two things go hand in hand, so to speak.
It’s no coincidence that the gays want to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. Its the age they are naturally inclined to target for recruitment. A Boy Scout troop is a candy store to the practicing homosexual.
That’s my take. People can be addicted to sex and it isn’t healthy. I believe anybody can develop a propensity to certain sexual desires, including homosexual ones - it’s almost a form of addiction. Unfortunately, it’s an addiction people are told to embrace, then it defines their very existence and consumes who they are. Everything is seen through the eyes of “being gay”.
Like any addiction, it isn’t healthy and should be discouraged. This is why some are able to leave the gay lifestyle, they “drop the habit” even though it is difficult. They may always have “impulses” but it is what they choose to act on, what decisions they make, that defines the outcome/consequences. Many have been able to leave it behind and lead normal lives. It’s sad, I wouldn’t *wish* gay inclinations on anyone, it certainly isn’t hate. Many abused boys grow up to be gay. Even though it is abuse, the mind has now been exposed to certain acts and they are a powerful influence.
The CDC statistics show gay men are ~40x more likely to be infected with HIV than the hetero population. A small percent of the population having lots of sex with that same small percent is going to infect a large portion of that group. It is a matter of fact. Almost all the gay men that I’ve known are the most emotionally immature people I’ve even met, their lives are constant drama (of course they’re always victims).
Yes, and the fraternal effect could just be due to older brother showing off his self-abuse skill.