[reno911]

I still believe that it is a fundamental choice, that may or may not be related to that persons life combined with genetic aspects. Say a young girl was raised in a family where her father beat her mom. Then in her first relationship she was beaten by her boyfriend. She had always had close female friends, whose lives where similar. One day something happened where she just never thought to be with a man due to an image she has developed of them.

Same can go for men. One of my gay friends was raised in a family of 2 boys and 3 girls. Being the oldest, what i consider the experimental child, he was treated equally by both parents. He was of a smaller petite build like his mom, and did not get the bulky manly features of his dad. His dad tried to get him into sports, but due to his build shortly gave up. Both parents tried to find something he was good at. He excelled in school, like his mom, eventually both parents figured out he had a talent in art. Both very supportive. Later in life after three girls, the had another boy. This time he resembled the dad more. Horrible grades and big broad shoulders. Naturally the dad took to this son more due to there resemblance. Leaving the older scrawny son to his mom. Over time the support from both sides became single sided and the dad started saying that he wished he had the second son first. Basically admitting that he waist his time with the four first kids getting to the last good son. Naturally the older boy fell into the niche with his 3 younger sisters and his mom. After trying to compete with what means he had to develop and relate to his father's manly lifestyle his father kept shooting it down. He tried dating women in highschool and college, but he had too much of his mothers kindness and emotional ties. He told me once that he finally had enough with trying to fornicate with the opposite sex since he was practically one of them. It was a shame because he always had extremely good looking girls drawn to him. But they always said he was too nice, and not very decisive. We didn't see each other for a few years, he went to school in San Francisco for art, and when he came back he was no longer trying to get a girl, he had found his good friend and partner.

Long story short, there are too many factors in how homosexuality develops. There is such a large genepool in this world, combined with such large amounts of liberal freedoms that not only can homosexuality occur, but many other variations of anything that can be considered normal. Then again, maybe we should have started this conversation with the topic of what is considered a normal American life.