Do you believe being exposed to depictions of homosexuality makes people gay?
05-30-2013, 04:12 PMQuote: (05-30-2013 03:12 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
Therefore, to answer your question, exposure to gay characters and the like has no effect on straight guys, but does on women -- as can be seen in the huge rise in bisexuality amongst females since around 1990. This is why feminists and their media lackeys push lesbianism. I hate to sound like a fundie, but for them it is a way to "recruit."
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2012/...hangeable/
It's a subject of fierce controversy, but some social scientists, like Kansas State University's Walter Schmunn have found that gay parents were much more likely to have gay children. Since obviously many of these children, particularly for gay male couples would be adopted, this suggests that homosexuality is subject to some environmental influences:
"Schumm concluded that children of lesbian parents identified themselves as gay 31 percent of the time; children of gay men had gay children 19 percent of the time, and children of a lesbian mother and gay father had at least one gay child 25 percent of the time.
Furthermore, when the study restricted the results so that they included only children in their 20s -- presumably after they'd been able to work out any adolescent confusion or experimentation -- 58 percent of the children of lesbians called themselves gay, and 33 percent of the children of gay men called themselves gay. (About 5 to 10 percent of the children of straight parents call themselves gay, Schumm says.)
Schumm next went macro, poring over an anthropological study of various cultures' acceptance of homosexuality. He found that when communities welcome gays and lesbians, "89 percent feature higher rates of homosexual behavior."
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/10/17/study-...-gay-kids/