Can homosexuality be "acquired"?

Oh... OK then... But I said

It cannot be aquired like a disease or something

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.I really can`t.
I`m against homosexuallity.
And about the guys/girls that end up gay.... The way I look at it, it`s a mental insanity, not a disease. The need to get with someone your own sex grows inside of some of the people`s MINDS[hopefully a small percent], but it doesn`t INCUBATE like a virus or something like that.The gay virus hasn`t been discovered yet. lol

I believe homosexuality is an in-born trait, (i.e. genetic). There is no way that anyone is going to convince me otherwise, because it doesn't stand to reason that people would choose to become one of the most highly discriminated against minority groups on the face of the earth.

It is plausible that certain environments could promote homosexual tendencies (i.e. prison), but homosexuality itself I believe to be a genetic trait that a person is either born with or isn't born with.

This is my last post on the matter.

I agree with this line from a member here

''It cannot be aquider like a disease or something, but it can be developed''

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That ^^^^ sums it up for me....not just for this but with alot of things.
If you hang around with very violent people alot...you will end up the same as them, I know from past experience as Ii hung out with alot of violent drug dealers in the past cos it was cool [yeah right] and I thought I was the big boy.
I am alright now...but while I was with them, it grew on me...I got like them.
Another example...My ex GF.
She used certain words ALOT....like yey and yazza cos they are part of her speak as shes got a South American accent.
Anyways I started saying it alot...you tend to do this.
Like when people move to another country they eventually get the accent or loose theirs to some degree.

Now as for becomming gay like this, I think its possible.
No its not a disease....its part of evolution that humankind had to evolve and adapt to what was around it....we are Mammals and we still have animal tributes.
If you were to hang around with gay people alot than I think its very possible some may start to go that way themselves.

However I belive and think that changing from straight to homosexual is alot more in-depth shall I say than living with someone and talking like them after awhile....I reckon some of us may be more prone to certain changes more than others....deep down I think you must have it in you.....or you wont make yourself go that way as you may be very against it.

Thats my view anyway.
Hope it makes sense.

Originally posted by REDZULU2003

If you hang around with very violent people alot...you will end up the same as them,

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While I appreciate your discussion and candor on these boards, I have to disagree with you here.

This statement implies that human beings have no choice or free will in life. It also implies that man has no mind, no faculty for reasoning and making his own decisions. It implies man is just a mass of cells,compltetely subserviant to the whims of motions of others.

I do not know your situation, but you were influenced by violent drug dealers. However, they did not make you like them. You chose to, whether you were aware of it or not. Now, you say you are not like that anymore. Why? At some point, I assume you chose not to be like that anymore and you continue to make that choice.

( I don't discount influence, and I suppose statistically, perhaps "those who associate with violent criminals are more likely to do so themselves." However, I do not think man loses his ability to choose other behavior.)

Redzulu is right about this. The people you hang out with influence you A LOT.
If you choose to hang out with drug dealers and you are not a drug dealer, at first there is a difference between you and them. You try unconsciously to eliminate it in order to be like them.
His statement implies not that you don`t have a mind, but that it can be influenced. The stronger mentality will take over the weaker one. Only if you will find the difference between them and you too big you will choose not to hang out with them anymore.
Until then you will be influenced , or you will influence.

Bigbutnottoo I respect what ya saying but I have already answered what ya said in that lastpost; you must have missed it [no offense] here it is quoted from the original.

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''''...I reckon some of us may be more prone to certain changes more than others....deep down I think you must have it in you.....or you wont make yourself go that way as you may be very against it''''

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Thays similer to what you just said
NOT EVERYONE will get influenced the same see below for another quote:

'''''..deep down I think you must have it in you.....or you wont make yourself go that way as you may be very against it''''

So yey I agree with you.
Jjust had to point out that I already walked that ground.

Sorry Redzulu. Sometimes when these threads tend to go on, it's hard to keep track what everyone says and I dont always go back over everything. I see what you said now.