Homosexuality

One of the most interesting and most important topics in the nature vs. nurture debate is homosexuality. Are we born with our sexual orientation or do we acquire it? For many years now, this topic has been studied and numerous theories have been developed. I'll start by discussing Childhood Gender Nonconformity. This basically is when a child does not behave like the rest of the members of his/her gender do. In many nations, this is called, for men, feminine or sissy, and for women, tomboy. Why does this happen? We know that this is not acquired for the most part because people who behave in this manner are often criticized and harassed by society. Therefore, why would someone want to behave this way? We also know that this has a great correlation with being gay, synonym for homosexual. Many people believe that this is caused by nature. Another thing that points towards nature is the statistic that says the more older brothers one has, the more likely that person is to being gay. This came out as a result of various surveys and investigations that prove that the chances of one being gay gets bigger by a third by every older brother. This leads to the idea that maybe its not genetics in nature, but something that happens to the boy fetus when it is in the womb. Curiosities that point towards nature however is the fact that identical twins, who have the same set of genes, and who were subject to the same conditions while in the whom, may have different sexual orientations and behaviors. The levels of testosterone and estrogen in the twins should be the same, so why does this occur? No one is one hundred percent sure, which is the answer, maybe homosexuality is determined by both nature and nurture. The quest remains and the research goes on.