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[–][deleted] 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I... trying to look for genuine research into the causes of homosexuality

Top of my head:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2019/06/04/1809920116.full.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Vasey/publication/301639075_Sexual_Orientation_Controversy_and_Science/links/577c303a08ae355e74f16c18/Sexual-Orientation-Controversy-and-Science.pdf

This should get you started, there's more, of course. It's generally understood to be a combination of genetics, epigenetics, and environment--which should be taken to mean overwhelmingly neonatal environment--biology--not middle childhood. It's important to recognize that there are multiple aetiologies.

It's not perfectly understood how homosexuality comes to be or why it persists in our species, but we do have some fairly good ideas about it. It would be wrong to say "nobody knows what makes people gay."

[–]usehername[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you.

[–]mvmlego 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you for the links. Regarding the first one: based on the paragraph that includes the paper's first mention of the word "twin", it appears that the genetic component only accounts for homosexuality in 32% of cases. Am I interpreting this properly?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, it's not that 32% of homosexual men are gay because they inherited it. It is the odds ratio of genetic inheritability when you've already got homosexual men in your lineage.

[–]mvmlego 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, thank you.