Campin_Cat wrote:
I have often wondered if gay people are with their own sex, mainly because they feel the most comfortable.
Anecdotally speaking, I would disagree.
Campin_Cat wrote:
and/or, like, if they are male and had a disapproving father (like, their father sorta snubbed them, because they were "weird"), they, subconsciously, wanted to find a male they could please (same with women - I've known gay women whom I thought felt that way).
I rather dislike this reasoning because it’s the kind that conversion therapists use to justify the treatments they inflict. The whole “overbearing mother, distant father” hypothesis has been going for a while.
Conversion therapy is just downright cruel, and it saddens me that it still goes on. Not only is it mentally damaging, but it also often involves physical torture.
Also, this reasoning generally rubs me the wrong way, because it suggests that we all must’ve come from bad homes and are just psychologically broken straight people.
When in actual fact, gay and bi people come from all sorts of homes, some have a great connection with both their mother
and their father.
I read a Cracked article where they interviewed someone who had experienced conversion therapy, and he talked about what happened during that time.
His therapist at the conversion camp asked him what his relationship was like with his parents, so he told them how he got on fairly well with both his mother and father, the therapist concluded that he must be so traumatised that he is suppressing memories of trauma.
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experie ... -camp.htmlIn those situations, you can’t win. Your mother was overbearing/distant? She is to blame. Your father was? He’s clearly the cause. Both your parents were wonderful, and you couldn’t wish for a better upbringing? Suppressed trauma,
of course.
There’s no answer you can give which they won’t twist to fit their view.
Hence why I question the validity of it all, if it’s so flexible then can it really be considered credible?
Also, what about all the scientific research into epigenetics and hormones playing a part in sexual orientation?
-Finger digit ratio theory
(
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -about-youhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 6916304044),
-Multiple brothers (in right-handed brothers, they found that in large families the more brothers a boy had, there was a significant correlation with an increased chance of homosexuality.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12- ... exual.htmlInterestingly the same cannot be said for left-handed brothers, however left-handedness in general has a higher occurrence rate amongst LGBT individuals-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12710825)
-Also, identical twin studies (When one twin is gay, the other has a 20% chance of being gay suggesting epigenetics play a role, epigenetics are genes which can be turned on or off by environmental and hormonal factors that occur outside of the womb)
https://www.nature.com/news/epigenetic- ... en-1.18530-Or the hyper-sexual heterosexual concept (in families with gay men, studies found that straight women were more likely to be promiscuous, have a higher sex drive, and produce more children…implying a benefit to the females of the family and male homosexuality occurring as an unintended by-product, and vice versa for lesbians).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6p1nmOnILA (More references available in the video description on YouTube).

Haha, sorry for the long post- you just touched upon a strong interest of mine.
I love learning about genetics and psychology. Sorry if I got any information wrong, feel free to correct me if this is the case.
Granted, all of this is going off the thread topic but this post grabbed my interest, sorry OP.
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