What causes Homosexuality?
What causes homosexuality? We are all products of both nature and nuture. I don't think homosexuality is caused by nature. There cannot be a genetic disposition towards homosexuality because homosexuals are unlikely to pass on their genes.
Any gene that creates homosexuality will die out. So the reason must be purely nuture. My theory is that the main culprit is the Industrial Revolution.
In more primitive societies, people marry young - often soon after puberty. That is still the pattern in the more primitive parts of the world. Since they come into sexual contact with the opposite sex earlier, homosexuality is less likely to develop.
But with the Industrial Revolution, people need longer years of education to enable them to be fully functional in an society. So marriage is postponed and sexual activity is frowned upon because of religious and social reasons. Of course, pre-Industrial societies also had homosexuals like the ancient Greeks. But I believe that later marriages makes it more likely.
Segregation of the sexes is encouraged in order to reduce temptation. This is done to different degrees. Some societies, as in modern day, Saudi Arabia segregates the sexes completely. They have seperate beaches, supermarket lines etc for each sex.
In most societies, shower rooms, toilets and sometimes schools are segregated. Thus puberty and sexual maturity are reached in a segregated enviroment. This results in a higher chance that sexual interest develops in a deviant direction. After all, if a young boy often sees violence, he is likely to become violent. Similarly, if he grows up seeing naked boys in the shower room more often then naked girls, then he should be more likely to become gay.
If my theory is right, more segregated environments produce more homosexuality. Thus boys or girls schools should produce more homosexuals than mixed schools. Societies that marry later should have more homosexuals than those whose people marry earlier. Societies that practice strict seperation - as in the Muslim world - should, all else being equal, produce more homosexuality.
Thus studies can easily be made to see if my theory is true. If so, then the solution would be to get young children of opposite sex to bathe together in mixed showers. Then you will get another problem - more unwanted teenage pregnancies.
Any gene that creates homosexuality will die out. So the reason must be purely nuture. My theory is that the main culprit is the Industrial Revolution.
In more primitive societies, people marry young - often soon after puberty. That is still the pattern in the more primitive parts of the world. Since they come into sexual contact with the opposite sex earlier, homosexuality is less likely to develop.
But with the Industrial Revolution, people need longer years of education to enable them to be fully functional in an society. So marriage is postponed and sexual activity is frowned upon because of religious and social reasons. Of course, pre-Industrial societies also had homosexuals like the ancient Greeks. But I believe that later marriages makes it more likely.
Segregation of the sexes is encouraged in order to reduce temptation. This is done to different degrees. Some societies, as in modern day, Saudi Arabia segregates the sexes completely. They have seperate beaches, supermarket lines etc for each sex.
In most societies, shower rooms, toilets and sometimes schools are segregated. Thus puberty and sexual maturity are reached in a segregated enviroment. This results in a higher chance that sexual interest develops in a deviant direction. After all, if a young boy often sees violence, he is likely to become violent. Similarly, if he grows up seeing naked boys in the shower room more often then naked girls, then he should be more likely to become gay.
If my theory is right, more segregated environments produce more homosexuality. Thus boys or girls schools should produce more homosexuals than mixed schools. Societies that marry later should have more homosexuals than those whose people marry earlier. Societies that practice strict seperation - as in the Muslim world - should, all else being equal, produce more homosexuality.
Thus studies can easily be made to see if my theory is true. If so, then the solution would be to get young children of opposite sex to bathe together in mixed showers. Then you will get another problem - more unwanted teenage pregnancies.
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