16% of young Christians are LGBT+
(protestia.com)
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“born this way”
“600% increase in 10 years”
I never went with the "born this way" argument, even in my more Leftwing youth.
If homosexuality was so rampant in prisons, then whatever genetic factors cause it, does not suggest that the behavior of specific instance or instances is genetic. A crackhead doesn't suck dick for money because he's a genuine homosexual. Also, if gay men can be in straight relationships for years because their interest is from genetic influence, then it shows that there's going to be some numbers of straight men that are in homosexual relationships out of social conditioning or pressures.
That's what you're really seeing here.
First: straight men being told that their desire for emotional attachments with women in order to be sexually attracted to them is not "being normal and straight", but is instead "anromantic demisexuality" (I didn't make that up).
Second: there's going to be a large number of straight men that have been told "Being pansexual just means that you'll have sex with anyone of any sexuality" and them thinking "Okay, well, I'm going to just do that" because they are men and aren't sorting out their partner's sexualities first. They also have zero homosexual experiences during the entire time they are "pansexual".
Third: the data itself is being collected under social coercion. If you want to not be confronted with negative institutional pressures, or you want an incentive you would otherwise not get, you can identify as any sexuality (including anromantic demisexual), and no once can actually disprove you. Thus, corrupting the data.
Fourth: there is a genetic component to homosexuality. It never seems to drift past a few percentage points. These are homosexuals that actually don't have any interest in the other sex, and have only had homosexual sexual experiences, and have no response to the other sex's secondary sexual characteristics, and sometimes have a disgust reaction to them. These are the gays you take to conversion therapy, and they do a musical about how they won't be tempted to be gay (again, I didn't make that one up either). Everyone past 1-3% is probably straight, and those numbers don't ever seem to change.
There’s no evidence that’s supports being gay is genetic, every single study into it has been a colossal failure. The most we’ve seen as plausible arguments are women hormone fluctuations during pregnancy causing disruptive development of the fetus. This however does not explain identical twins, where almost always if one is gay, the other is not. The current “science” on this theory essentially claims that it’s just because the straight one does not know he’s gay.
You haven't met my cousin.
Same age as me, we grew up together in rural Idaho in the '80s. He always had slightly weird speech mannerisms and feminine interests (going back to like 4-5 years old). He also had no shortage of friends in rural Idaho despite being a somewhat effeminate dude because he wasn't a narcissistic faggot. Came out as gay in his early 20s and I was completely unsurprised. He's now been married for 15 years.
So I don't know how you'd measure a "genetic" component, but there's definitely something there, at least for some people. And given the amount of repulsion the thought of gay sex gives me, I don't see how a not-actually-gay person could get past that and actually willingly have a gay relationship.
And before you say "must have been molested as a baby" -- I'm just going to say, I doubt it. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
That’s not genetics… again why I brought forward the only current viable hypothesis, which essentially boils down “it most likely happens during fetus development, but we don’t actually know”. There’s also the harsh reality that there are far more men that engage in sodomy without being “gay” the more it is normalized and accepted.