How Genetic Is Our Sexual Identity?

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Maybe this has been debated before, but real life experiences I believe can be a valid proof to whether who we are attracted to is related to our genes or not.

In my opinion, I think there is not one valid truth to this.

For some it is genetic, for others it was based on certain circumstances; many stories can be told why someone knew he was gay, just straight, or discovered his bi-side later on.

Especially when you come to analyze gay life and how gay couples interact and what does each person enjoy and what not, it is much broader in scale than sex between a man and a woman.

The way I see it however that s person can inherit from his parents or through his genetic pool from his grandparents/ancestors some kind of attraction.

It is like the child who likes eating the same food like their parents ( I am generalizing and just saying my thoughts out loud).
I always wondered why would I ever enjoy exactly the same foods my dad does, but not my Mother's.


And why would my brother's son hold a pencil exactly like his dad; it drives me crazy thinking too much about it.

I think so about attraction; you may not immediately want to have an orgasm with someone, but you can feel some kind of bonding, your mind thinking and fantasizing about it. I think in some of us, it is deeply connected to our genes and maybe depending on our situations, and our experiences, maybe reading about it, trying it, experimenting... these genes get triggered and turned on.

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I strongly believe it is nature not nurture that dictates what we are attracted to. Maybe nurture can help tip things a certain way, but I believe we are wired from birth to be either attracted to men, women, or both.

I knew at a very young age (LPSG rules forbid me to divulge specific ages) I was attracted to both sexes. There was no milestone event or turning point that pointed me in a certain direction; I simply realized it as soon as the old hormones began kicking in. Of course I didn't accept it until I was about 21.

Maybe that sounds anecdotal, but science has not revealed what dictates our sexual orientation yet; and with many special interests playing tug-of-war with scientific data, we may never get a clear, succinct answer to this question.
 

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It has been debated here many times in many threads. Use the search function if interested in reading.

Doesn't look like it's genetic.

The science has been in (and hasn't changed) for thirty years that ~90% of the adult population has at least some sexual physiological response to both sexes based only on visual stimulation. Under the same experimental conditions ~10% have zero response to either the same or opposite sex.

Gender is mostly stereotypes.
 

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I wondered about this a bit. When I was in my youth I played around and fucked a bunch of my school buddies until I got to my later teens then met my first girlfriend and then married her. I haven’t been with another male since. Fast forward 25 years and I now have an 18 year old son who is gay. Did he inherit that from me as I was open about my sexuality at a young age? Who knows!
 
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How was you attitude about sexuality around him as he was growing up, given your experiences?

I wondered about this a bit. When I was in my youth I played around and fucked a bunch of my school buddies until I got to my later teens then met my first girlfriend and then married her. I haven’t been with another male since. Fast forward 25 years and I now have an 18 year old son who is gay. Did he inherit that from me as I was open about my sexuality at a young age? Who knows!
 

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From what I understand homosexuality is not inherited.

Interestingly enough, me and my sister are bisexual. And I remember the day when we both realized it...we didn't seem to be surprised at all.
 
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I could see genes having a lot to do with gender identity, but a lot less to do with sexuality.

There was a sexuality researcher who wrote an article years ago where he stated something like "exotic becomes erotic," as the explanation of how orientations form in our early lives. So, the eventual straight men had felt that there was something "exotic" about women, the eventual gay men had felt that there was something "exotic" about other men, and bisexuals had found something exotic about both. And it was things like life experience, social contexts, and relationships that largely explained what was or was not "exotic".