What do YOU consider the root causes of sexual orientation?
AmbroseJohnson
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I am an American white male, age 58.
I consider myself bisexual to an age even before puberty. My 2-year-older brother also considers himself bisexual since before puberty.
I don't believe there are any true known scientific causes for sexual orientation.
If homosexuality is genetic, then how could one's mother and father have even possibly reproduced that person? According to my mother, my brother and I were conceived naturally. My father's penis went into my mother's vagina and here I am now. Certainly, bisexuals can reproduce naturally.
I don't even know if my mother and/or father were heterosexual or bisexual. Not one of my parents ever indicated what they really were. My father once said that homosexuality was not his cup of tea.
As a boy growing up, I had only interest in partaking in masculine things as football, baseball, weight training, cowboys and Indians, guns, hunting, fishing, playing ball with dogs and Tonka trucks. Once when I was about 5, over my head and body like a sheet worn as a Halloween ghost costume, I slipped on one of my mother's mumus (spacious Hawaiian dress) that was laying in the back seat of the car to "pretend to be a ghost". She told me promptly to take that off because boys don't wear women's clothes. Putting on the mumu was not out of desire to be feminine but rather to just goof off. It gave me no sexual gratification to put the mumu on and play Halloween. After that, I never had any desire to put on female clothes whatsoever for any reason. Much of gender conformity is from mother culture, not genes or biology. Human babies newly born don't have any natural instinct that a dress is female and pants are male. Clothes aren't even natural to begin with. Gender-based clothing is learned behavior. In ancient times, men and boys wore crotchless/legless clothing as robes, tunics and togas that might be stereotyped as "dresses" in modern culture. The sexual identity associated with clothing is merely a human construct. Male pants-wearing arose historically out of horsemanship needs. I don't know the Scotsman's practical need to wear a kilt.
I consider myself a gender-conforming male in manner of dress, deepness of voice and character.
I consider myself bisexual to an age even before puberty. My 2-year-older brother also considers himself bisexual since before puberty.
I don't believe there are any true known scientific causes for sexual orientation.
If homosexuality is genetic, then how could one's mother and father have even possibly reproduced that person? According to my mother, my brother and I were conceived naturally. My father's penis went into my mother's vagina and here I am now. Certainly, bisexuals can reproduce naturally.
I don't even know if my mother and/or father were heterosexual or bisexual. Not one of my parents ever indicated what they really were. My father once said that homosexuality was not his cup of tea.
As a boy growing up, I had only interest in partaking in masculine things as football, baseball, weight training, cowboys and Indians, guns, hunting, fishing, playing ball with dogs and Tonka trucks. Once when I was about 5, over my head and body like a sheet worn as a Halloween ghost costume, I slipped on one of my mother's mumus (spacious Hawaiian dress) that was laying in the back seat of the car to "pretend to be a ghost". She told me promptly to take that off because boys don't wear women's clothes. Putting on the mumu was not out of desire to be feminine but rather to just goof off. It gave me no sexual gratification to put the mumu on and play Halloween. After that, I never had any desire to put on female clothes whatsoever for any reason. Much of gender conformity is from mother culture, not genes or biology. Human babies newly born don't have any natural instinct that a dress is female and pants are male. Clothes aren't even natural to begin with. Gender-based clothing is learned behavior. In ancient times, men and boys wore crotchless/legless clothing as robes, tunics and togas that might be stereotyped as "dresses" in modern culture. The sexual identity associated with clothing is merely a human construct. Male pants-wearing arose historically out of horsemanship needs. I don't know the Scotsman's practical need to wear a kilt.
I consider myself a gender-conforming male in manner of dress, deepness of voice and character.