Averroes
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You need Yoga for that.
For heterosexuals there's a much simpler cure for sex. It's called marriage.
I get that now and I am not married
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You need Yoga for that.
For heterosexuals there's a much simpler cure for sex. It's called marriage.
Nakosis said:For heterosexuals there's a much simpler cure for sex. It's called marriage.
sfgate.com said:.Bill Maier, vice president of the conservative evangelical organization Focus on the Family, said "the research seems to indicate that (long-term relationships) are very rare [among gay men] and that promiscuity is still very common. ... Men tend to be less into commitment."
Not so fast, said Darren Spedale, a law and business student at Stanford University, who studied divorce rates in Denmark in 1996-97, seven years after same-sex registered partnerships were legalized. He found that 17 percent of gay partnerships ended in divorce compared with 46 percent of the straight relationships.
"Same-sex couples who enter into marriage-type relationships have obviously given it much more thought. ... A lot of them, in general, have had longer relationships previous to tying the knot," which decreases the likelihood of divorce, said Spedale, who is completing a book on the subject.
Dale Bullock founded Bonds Limited, an organization devoted to bringing together gay couples seeking lifelong, monogamous relationships. Over the past decade, he's made 228 matches. One hundred sixty of his couples are male; all but seven are still together.
Wikipedia said:Divorce rate amongst born-again Christians is significantly higher than that for atheist/agnostics. A more recent 2008 Barna report shows a closer divorce rate gap between born-again Christians (32% had been divorced) and atheist/agnostics (30% had been divorced).
tarekabdo12 said:But still homosexuality is abnormal and hazardous.
tarekabdo12 said:But still homosexuality is abnormal and hazardous.
And what do you propose should be done about homosexuality? It would obviously be ridiculous for a person to call anything "abnormal and hazardous" without offerring a solution. You might as well call smoking cigarettes "abnormal and hazardous" without offerring a solution.
tarekabdo12 said:The problem is that jsut because you want to accept homosexuality from a political reason.......
tarekabdo12 said:.......you made people admit it as a normal pattern.
tarekabdo12 said:People should have gone in the right way to search for the cause of this activity and how to deal with it.
tarekabdo12 said:I see that it's crucial to shift the minds of people away from the materialistic aspect of sex in your community. Every where in your communities there are explicit sex scenes, people talking about sex in a materialistic pattern, children who see sexual activities in the media in a wide-spread manner and seeing porn or hearing about it in a very early age before they are wise enough to know its nature.
tarekabdo12 said:Shift people's minds to the emotional core of sex.
tarekabdo12 said:Homosexuality is just like the other patterns of sexual aberrations.
Please define the word "normal."
Having an IQ over over 160 is not normal, but most people do not criticize people who have IQ's over 160.
But a lot of research has been conducted by experts regarding the causes of homosexuality, and the most recent position by the majority of experts is that the causes of homosexuality are not known.
tarekabdo12 said:Introducing a child to sexual scenes without being yet developed can modify his sexual orientation. The need to identify the organs before the brain has developed the sexual understanding plus the arousing nature of sexual parts may lead the child to be attracted to certain sex. This is more acceptable to me since homosex. is found more in open communities yet other cultures don't even understand it. In my country, I have never seen nor recognized anybody with homosexual tendency. It's sth that people are interested about at all. It appears that the more open communities exhibit this problem in a wider range so it's rather environmental and developmental.
tarekabdo12 said:Introducing a child to sexual scenes without being yet developed can modify his sexual orientation.
tarekabdo12 said:It's not strange that some people insist upon saying that they were born gay because probably this occurred very early during their sexual development.
The vast majority of experts, and informed homosexuals, believe that the causes of homosexuality are not known.
tarekabdo12 said:Environmental factors are crucial, that is what I'm talking about.
American Psychological Association said:There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay, or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors. Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles; most people experience little or no sense of choice about their sexual orientation.
Wikipedia said:The American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and National Association of Social Workers stated in 2006:
Currently, there is no scientific consensus about the specific factors that cause an individual to become heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexualincluding possible biological, psychological, or social effects of the parents' sexual orientation. However, the available evidence indicates that the vast majority of lesbian and gay adults were raised by heterosexual parents and the vast majority of children raised by lesbian and gay parents eventually grow up to be heterosexual.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists stated in 2007:
Despite almost a century of psychoanalytic and psychological speculation, there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person's fundamental heterosexual or homosexual orientation. It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment. Sexual orientation is therefore not a choice.
The American Academy of Pediatrics stated in Pediatrics in 2004:
Sexual orientation probably is not determined by any one factor but by a combination of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences. In recent decades, biologically based theories have been favored by experts. Although there continues to be controversy and uncertainty as to the genesis of the variety of human sexual orientations, there is no scientific evidence that abnormal parenting, sexual abuse, or other adverse life events influence sexual orientation. Current knowledge suggests that sexual orientation is usually established during early childhood.
The American Psychological Association states "there are probably many reasons for a person's sexual orientation and the reasons may be different for different people", and says most people's sexual orientation is determined at an early age.Research into how sexual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates about homosexuality, and also raises fears about genetic profiling and prenatal testing.
Professor Michael King states: "The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of sexual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change. Scientific evidence on the origins of homosexuality is considered relevant to theological and social debate because it undermines suggestions that sexual orientation is a choice."
The authors of a 2008 study stated "there is considerable evidence that human sexual orientation is genetically influenced, so it is not known how homosexuality, which tends to lower reproductive success, is maintained in the population at a relatively high frequency". They hypothesized that "while genes predisposing to homosexuality reduce homosexuals' reproductive success, they may confer some advantage in heterosexuals who carry them". Their results suggested that "genes predisposing to homosexuality may confer a mating advantage in heterosexuals, which could help explain the evolution and maintenance of homosexuality in the population". A 2009 study also suggested a significant increase in fecundity in the females related to the homosexual people from the maternal line (but not in those related from the paternal one).
Garcia-Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, "The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed or organized into our brain structures when we are still in the womb. There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation."
Regardless, what options do you propose for homosexuals who are adults?
As the article says, "there is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation."
The only evidence that you have is from a mere relative handful of experts, the majority of whom have religious biases against homosexuality, and try to force science to agree with their religious beliefs. Many polls have shown that religious people are generally much more opposed to homosexuality than non-religious people are.
Ryan D. Johnson said:We have examined many causes for homosexuality in the preceding pages, both biological and social. And although an interesting topic of debate, no one theory or experiment leads to a definitive answer. Some believe that the characters found on Xq28 are the Holy Grail of homosexuality research, the elusive 'gay gene'. Others may place stock in the theories of Foucault and Halperin. Perhaps Simon LeVay did reveal to us that anatomy is the key to understanding the difference in sexual orientation. Perhaps there is no one answer, that sexual orientation, whether homosexual or heterosexual; gay, straight, lesbian, or bisexual, all are a cause of a complex interaction between environmental, cognitive, and anatomical factors, shaping the individual at an early age.