[quote]Makavali wrote:
ZEB wrote:
Keep in mind that this is the Internet and not even one gay man will ever admit that the following has any merit. However, I think that the environmental factors are indeed strong for homosexuality.
Dominant mothers and gay sons
September 18, 2002 Times 2 - features
Despite the huge publicity accorded to them, studies purporting to prove that male homosexuality is caused by genes or brain abnormalities have turned out to be largely groundless.
Very recently published studies have found little or no genetic effect and there is a large body of evidence to suggest that homosexuality has a significant environmental component.
Gay men are twice as likely as heterosexuals to come from a distinctive family constellation, half painting the following picture of their boyhood: the mother is the center of his attention and they are unusually close; she sees rough-and-tumble play as dangerous, and is excessively anxious about his health and safety; this inhibits his aggression, and he is clinging and anxious at being separated from her;
in early adolescence she may be flirtatious with him, and is a dominant, powerful woman who is uncomfortable with masculinity �¢?? emasculating even; she takes more family decisions than the father, and is the stronger personality; the father is rejecting or withdrawn or weak or absent �¢?? emotionally, literally or a combination of these �¢?? and the marital relationship is disharmonious.
Gay men tend to have had negative relationships with their fathers, half of them (compared with a quarter of heterosexuals) feeling anger, resentment and fear towards fathers whom they deem cold, hostile, detached or submissive.
They do not see their fathers as role models.
More than 70 per cent feel dissimilar to them while growing up (against a third of heterosexuals) and more similar to their mother. About half feel that their mothers did not want them to be like their fathers, and more than two thirds feel that their mothers dominated their fathers.
I’m a bit confused as to where that’s from. Times 2?
Also, I was close to my mother (until a few years ago, just kinda drifted apart) and hated (still do) my dad. Last paragraph is me to a letter.
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Makavali my friend, there are other environmental theories which apply to homosexual men. Things such as having a domineering mother and distant father are only two.
Feeling ostracized as a child (for whatever reason). Also, being molested as a child can lead to homosexuality later in life.
However, none of the above guarantee that you will in fact become a homosexual. Just like growing up in poverty doesn’t guarantee that you will stay in poverty, however the possibility is far greater that you will.
These environmental condition’s make just as much sense (in fact more so) than the genetic theory which has never been proven. I don’t see what difference it makes because once someones sexuality is established it is difficult to change. It has been done by many, but it is not an easy proposition. My heart goes out to those who are not satisfied with their sexuality and want to change it. from what I’ve read the long-term commitment must be there along with an excellent therapist.
Anyway, as a personal observation and very unscientific I would say that 90% of all homosexual men that I have known (Friends from school and past jobs that I’ve held) did indeed fall into these environmental conditions.
It’s still comes from the Church. Only was it when the Federal government gave married people benefits did it become an issue of the government.