Overpopulation and homosexuality

[tynkyr_belle]

I've also read the study (and ALSO can't find mention of it now) about rats in a controlled area with varying populations and the correlative variance of homosexuality.

I keep hearing people talking about genes as though they're a light switch. Either ON or OFF.

That's not how ALL genes work. Some genes can be affected by "coactivation" (A coactivator is a protein that increases gene expression by binding to an activator)

I've read (but now can't find, darn-it-all) that it's the MOTHER that determines the sexuality. That stressors during pregnancy affect levels of a type of testosterone that would then "turn on" the expression of homosexuality. If the mother has the gene for this AND she is under stress during the exact part of her pregnancy for this to have an effect, then the child will be gay. Thus, not ALL children from her will be gay, and even in the case of identical twins, it might not be enough of an effect for both to be affected.

Population control is the only logical explanation thus far put forth for the existence of homosexuality. It's obviously a survival trait that Mother Nature has so thoughtfully provided. It's really too sad that we'd rather use superstition and religious delusion to explain the real world than to open our minds (and our hearts) and realize that homosexuality is a NATURAL part of life on Earth. No one chooses to be gay. No one chooses to be straight. It just IS, and for the betterment of all mankind! (especially in this day and age when most of our problems like pollution, wars, famine, global warming, etc are caused by overpopulation)

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by adjective

Sorry to bump a month-old topic, but I couldn't help adding to this particular discussion.
Another theory I've run into deals with hormone levels in utero. Since the brain and sex organs develop at different times, the brain might be built with certain sexual orientation characteristics and a different overall sex makeup. I believe this is similar to the current theory on how transsexuals are born.

Personally, I don't think any of these theories hold much water since they don't explain bisexuality. Obviously, as some people have pointed out in this discussion earlier, there is a nature vs. nurture factor that needs to be taken into account. There's far too much variance seen in sexual orientation to be accounted for by the ideas currently put forth.

Sorry to bump a 3 year- old post.
This is an interesting article on transsexuals
Transsexual Smokescreen: Ignoring Science In ?The Man Who Would Be Queen?
It is amazing the attention non-heterosexual activity attracts from Christians, especially the "old"-Bible, literal fundamentalists.
What are they frightened of?
Surely not that these people will go to Hell?

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

It is amazing the attention non-heterosexual activity attracts from Christians, especially the "old"-Bible, literal fundamentalists.
What are they frightened of?
Surely not that these people will go to Hell?

I think it has at least something to do with fear mongering, the party line i heard growing up was that homosexual sex is so tempting that unless you have Jesus you will not be able to resist temptation be doomed to fate worse than death, homosexuality In some ways it resembled the whole girls who have sex outside marriage will be doomed to a fate worse than death deal of the Victorian age.