Homosexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction between someone of his or her same gender. Men that are attracted to Men are called “gays” and woman that are attracted to woman are considered to be called “lesbians” and when a person is attracted to both woman and men is bisexual. What is being debated or discussed a lot now days is whether people get homosexual genes or if they are learned do to the environment.
Some people who study human sexuality believe that it comes from your genetics while others believe that it creates according to the environment you live in, whether it is family problems or you are treated in a different way but most of the scientists do not support this theory. Homosexuality is not considered to be a disease even the American Psychological Association says that it is not a mental disorder and that instead it only brings you stress and anxiety and then these develop physical problems such as headaches having trouble to sleep or nausea, so it is recommended to talk with people with whom you have trust, in order to be more secure of who you are around other people, and also to help reduce the stress and anxiety. Most of the scientists believe that homosexuality is genetic do to the fact that there is more proof. A perfect example is with twins, there are two types the identical twins that share all their genetics and their entire environment and the non-identical which only share the same environment but have different genetics. An experiment was done with some twins that were about 6 years old and one was very girly he even painted his nails, played with dolls and had his room decorated as a girl and the other one was very boyish and played with trucks like a normal boy. These two boys have shared the same environment all their lives so we can conclude they are non-identical twins and that one got homosexual genes. But it is better to study the cases individuallybecause sometimes it may vary whether kids have homosexual genes or they learn them from the environment they live in.
In conclusion, I believe that homosexuality can be both genetic and environmental. It can be genetic because there is more proof and also the example above supports a lot the genetic theory besides the human being knows that homosexual people are not often let in, into society most of the times they are left out soy why would they choose to be gay or lesbian if they know they are not going to be treated in a fair way? but on the other hand it can be environmental because it depends in the parents if they let the kids act like their opposite sex, because when boys or girls are young they don’t actually know the difference between both sexes so it’s the parents job to guide them in the right way. To conclude I can say that nature and nurture have a big role in homosexuality.
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/teens/sexuality/739.html
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