HOMOSEXUALITY: nature or nurture?

"The phrase 'Nature and Nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed" this was said by Francis Galton an english polymath. Nature and Nurture are two different ways that manipulate how a human being's personality or behavior can turn out. These two are are completely different and their influence in some topics is being strongly debated by scientists. One of those topics and the one that is being debated the most is homosexuality. Nobody knows if homosexuality comes from nature meaning your genes or from nurture and how your parents raised you. In my opinion homosexuality comes from nature; you cant choose to be straight or gay you just are what you are. I think that those who admit or realize that they are gay or lesbians after a long time is because the changes that had to occur before happened late but it has nothing to do with how you are treated at home, that can help you realize you are a homosexual but really everything was already in your genes. This is being debated by many scientists and no one still knows what causes homosexuality but they do know that gays and lesbians can be noticed at a small age. The video we saw in class showed examples of childhood pictures of people and videos of them as grown ups, and differences between a straight person and a gay person could be noticed since they were kids and we could actually predict if they were going to grow up straight or gay just by the way they acted, moved their hands, sat etc. Another example to prove my point is the video we saw about the two identical twin brothers, this shows that is comes from genes because they are both brothers and they are both treated the same but for some reason one is more manlike and the other is more femininelike. We could see that one preferred to play with boy stuff and the other one with girl stuff; we could also see differences in their ways of dressing, their decoration in their rooms, the way they talked and how they acted all fot these showed that one going to be straight and the other one gay. 

As Neil Swidey said in his book you cant make someone gay as well as you cant make someone straight you are just born with it but of course home is involved in this because as parents try to stop their child to be gay the more insistent they become the most probabilities that the child will not change. Some parents see homosexuality as a disease and really its just a rare change in someones genes that makes the person different. Scientists opinions in this topic is divided because really both of the sides can equally defend themselves with great points. Some of them believe that your sexuality may be changes and repaired but others think that you are born with sexual preferences and that you cant change that. Both points can support themselves for example the nature concept can defend their point with the two identical twins with different preferences and the nurture concept may defend their point with their theory that we can all be influenced by our environment not only in the sexual preference way but in every single way. 

In conclusion after doing my research i changed my mind about where does it come from, I think that homosexuality comes from both nature and nurture. A person may be born gay but their environment may either change their way of thinking or even make it stronger. Scientists still are debating about this and they will keep on probably during years. No one knows if a traumatic life may lead to certain rare choice in preferences or if what Paul Ewald said that homosexuality is considered a virus is true. More research can maybe figure the whole problem out but it  will be difficult because they are both right in different ways. 

SOURCE: http://www.gaylife.about.com/