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Well, it's a biological reason we even have sex, to reproduce. I'm not biology expert, but there are some natural processes going on when you're attracted to someone or in love, along with mental processes.
Still, psychological and external factors seem to have an upper hand over purely biological reasons. -
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The general consensus from scientific studies and statistics would suggest that sexual orientation is biological.
Sadly I think that people with a religious agenda have interfered with the situation so much that important research is significantly held back.
To play devil's advocate for a moment - what if sexual preference to some is a choice? That sounds to me like a person who would classify themselves as bisexual, and perhaps a few other classifications. Again, the majority of people who are against this do so on the basis of religion.
I live in Canada, where the laws of the land rule, not the laws of religion. People are free to choose their religion, but they're not free to use their religion to take away freedom from others.
Truth be told, I feel very worn down from these issues about homosexuality. My personal view is that these issues AREN'T about homosexuality or sexuality, but about religious control, an agenda if you will about gaining as much power as possible. -
Yes, definitely. I mean, what else could explain Pedro and Buddy? They're biological creatures, and so are humans.
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I like to think of is as a partial split between the two. Some of it is based on biology, and some is based on environment.
I feel the best way to explain this is to allude to the works of Emmanuel Kant. For centuries, philosophers had been arguing over one huge debate: are our personalities and who we are built by our mind or by the environment around us? On one side, the rationalists (Socrates, Plato, etc.), believed truth only came from looking within and that our minds are all that defines us. On the other side, the empiricists (Aristotle, etc.), they believed that our minds are parts of the metaphysical world, and thus, truth must come only from the world around us that our minds exist as a part of.
After hundreds of years of this debate, Kant came along and "solved" the great puzzle. (The reason "solved" in in quotations is because you can never definitively solve anything philosophically, but he did provide great insight on the debate.) Anyway, Kant believed in the epistemological framework of the mind, which took in the raw information provided by the external universe and perceived it based on the person's mind. In other words, every person is born with a blank slate of a mind, but their blank slates are built up differently. As we go through life, our brains take in raw knowledge by examining the world around us, but then our minds perceive the world in different ways.
For example, some people will look at a painting, take in all the picture is made up of, and then feel happy and think the painting is a joyous, beautiful picture. However, others will look at the same painting, but their minds will start to feel very depressed and they perceive it as a dark, sad image.
Therefore, since your mind is biologically made up of half of your mother's mind and half of your father's, the epistemological framework of your mind is solely biological. Therefore, sexual orientation may have a clear link to biology, but it has an equal link to the world around you.
To use your example of transvestites from the following two questions, many people have an epistemological framework that has the potential to become a transvestite. However, a lot of them grow up in wealthy or goodhearted homes that suppress their urge to be a transvestite. However, a lot of people perceive these wealthy homes differently, and decide to become a transvestite anyway.
It's all about how you look at the world and how the world looks back at you. -
Some people say so, but I believe some changes occur from traumas or changes of perception of love.
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Biology = Life
Sex = Pregnancy = Baby = New life
New LIFE -
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