DISCUSSIONIf homosexuality is genetic,where are the genetics for the other new sexualities?

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[–]meisthebigdumbTransracial BlackX Rockgender Bispecies 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-study-finds-no-single-genetic-cause-of-same-sex-sexual-behavior/

Relevant: Homosexuality is only 8-25% genetic, and the "gay gene" has been disproven.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I wonder if there's any correlation with an absentee father for gay men?

[–]jacques1102[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't say for gays but i herd somewhere that there was a study with MtF transgenders where a large percentage had one thing in common."lack of a father".

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've had my dad my whole life, we get along just fine and I'm gay. Maybe correlation does not equal causation?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not necessarily, no. It may though. I'm just wondering how accurate it was. You have look at broad numbers of people and their relationships in the family. One person doesn't make a study.

[–]meisthebigdumbTransracial BlackX Rockgender Bispecies 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, big correlation, also factors like child abuse, drugs, social isolation etc.

[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This was an element of conservative anti-gay discorse since the 50s.

If this correlation really existed, don't you think someone would have proved it by now?

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Strong correlation with sexual abuse at young ages

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Anyone who says homosexuality has a genetic component doesn't understand what they're looking at, seeing patterns in noise.

Alexa, how do homosexuals reproduce?

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They don't have to.

Their dad's leave them and screw around and their mothers are crack whores.

Loads of siblings.

[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Alexa, how do homosexuals reproduce?

Most people who bring up this argument know little about genetics or how genes work.

I'm going to make a gross generalization here, but bear with me:

We can classify the caracteristics related to the survival of living beings in three basic types: beneficial, harmful and neutral. The harmful ones tend to he selected out and the beneficial ones are passed down.

The neutral ones? That's where the problem lies.

If trait x doesn't interfere with survival then why would it be selected out? An example of this are the different shapes of ear lobes, which have zero impact on survival of the species and so they stayed on the species even today.

If homosexuality is still around then it is either one of two things: either a neutral trait for the survival of the species or a positive one. There's no way around it.

Another thing: natural selection is about the survival of the species not of a single individual within an species. Some people tend to forget this, mainly due to lack of knowledge or lack of experience in the area.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Homosexuality is a behaviour. It is learned.

[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But same-sex attraction isn't, that's where your reasoning fails.

You can fuck anything you want to, it won't mean you're attracted to it specifically.

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If you aren't traumatized in your youth, including by exposure to degeneracy that's only into your eyeballs, you're only gonna want heterosex

[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

If you say so...

Keep living the dream!

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder what the overlap is between the gay genes and the personality disorder genes.

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

No gay gene as such but a mix of multiple genetic and outside factors. So there's not one specific cause that can be pinpointed. Human behaviour is complex, I suppose.