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Bambulus

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I should confirm that I am asking out of genuine interest, and also to niallist who claims to have read this recent scientific research.

I am a trained biologist and whilst I dont specialize in genetics I would like to read about it. I searched Pubmed and couldnt find a reference that satisfied the claims.
I also had a quick look on the psychology metalib pages and didn't find anything of worth. There were no papers or articles really related to causation. I didn't exactly look very thouroughly, but on the face of this there wasn;t anything really related.

However, the topic of homosexuality is much more complex than an either/or scenario concerning Nature vs Nurture. While you'll probably find countless articles relating to biological or social causes, we have to remember that behaviour is a product of both phsiological and socio-cultural influences. It's not necessarily as simple as pinning it down to a singule cause, but rather how biology and sociology interact.

Also, the APA states that sexuality is not as simple as being innate and fixed, for some sexuality is fluidic and can develop over time. They also go on to say that some people may not even begin to have bisexual/homosexual urges until later in life.

And then the question of identity has to come into play. It's not unheard of for both men and women to have homosexual experiences regardless of how they identify themselves sexually. I seem to recall one study on homophobia where one group of self admitted homophobes and a group of people who claimed to have no homophobic feelings were made to watch homosexual pornography. The researchers found that the self admitted homphobes were more aroused by the pornography than the group of non-homophobes, suggesting that identity is much more important in controlling behaviour than physiology. Identity plays a HUGE role, regardless oh what the body confesses.

I've touched on a few points, but the over-arching theme to my post is that looking at it in terms of fixed black and white isn't necessarily the best way to look at it. There's a lot more complexity, and a lot more grey areas than you'd originally assume.
 

Kat

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Ob, the answer is simple mate, girls wouldn't allow that and thus possess a higher set of principles.

Guys wanna get proactive like that and the receivers (for want of a better word) wanna be touched like that ....

It matters not for them that it is in public because the rest of the 'public' are all acting the same.

I once made the mistake of going to Grand Canaria on my honeymoon to a resort that had a frikkin gay convention running at the time I was out there.

I felt violated ..... it was not a pleasant experience I can tell ya and I didn't react well to some situations that erupted out there much to the amusement of some friends of mine when I recounted those events .....yeuk!!!!
I can agree that it's more widely thought of the gay male community to behave like that, but really, in this day and age I don't agree that it is!

Some of the things I hear/see/am told that go on is just as racy, and are you sure that people arn't more aware of gay men 'touching' because it's more shocking, and you'd barely notice a hetero couple doing it?

Just a thought, I've seen a couple have sex in the middle of a busy foam party ffs, shortly after witnessed what can only be described as an orgy on a bus (wich required security!)...although both were on a girlie holiday to Tenerife...so maybe I was witnessing the mentality of brits abroad, which I assure you are just as bad!

Katx