Do you agree you can predict a gay baby?

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I really disagree with the idea that you can be born gay. Since you don't start to develop sexual feelings till you hit puberty. Usually around 10-12.

I found this video saying that if you have too many boys the youngest will turn out gay. It also seems to exclude women from this study. So does that mean being a gay male is normal and being a gay female is weird according to this?

They try to push this video off as educating you about homosexuality. If they are only testing one gender the study seems incomplete. So what are everyone's thoughts? http://youtu.be/PSQSx3OCrXQ

Just so I don't have to make a dozen poll options I am going to put LGBT. For Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and so on.

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  • anti-hero
    9 years ago | pl

    I had sexual feelings and knew I liked girls way before 10. Like 4 or 5. I bet I am not alone in this. I never went through any "girls are icky" stage.

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    • Legion
      9 years ago | pl

      that's how i was, i even had a crush on a girl at 8.

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    • disthing
      9 years ago | pl

      You're definitely not alone in this.

      I had sexual feelings from as early as I can remember (4, 5), even if I didn't fully understand them.

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  • gorillaphant
    9 years ago | pl

    Your capacity for sexuality is developed in utero. Like most everything about the human body. Just because it doesn't manifest itself until puberty does not been you aren't born with it. Kind of like teeth. The expression of sexuality is the only thing you choose based on what you are comfortable with doing. Repressed desires is normal for some, and abnormal for others.

    Choosing celibacy is much different than being forced or shamed into it. Do not compare the two.

    And who is this "they" you are referring to? I'm sorry if I don't generally take you tube videos as an authority on much of anything.

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  • CozmoWank
    9 years ago | pl

    At what time did you decide to be straight? If you say it's a choice, then you are saying you have both heterosexual and homosexual feelings but choose not to act on the homosexual ones.

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    • Sog
      9 years ago | pl

      Just because you weren't "born that way" doesn't mean that it is a choice either.

      Did a person who has a passion for opera just wake up one day and "choose" to like it? Or did he leave the womb somehow knowing what opera was and then gravitate to it at birth?

      Of course the answer to both of those is no. People can develop naturally over time, without influence from their genes. But that doesn't mean that they had direct influence over it as a "choice" either.

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      • CozmoWank
        9 years ago | pl

        I like Gorillaphant's explanation-
        "Your capacity for sexuality is developed in utero. Like most everything about the human body. Just because it doesn't manifest itself until puberty does not been you aren't born with it. Kind of like teeth. The expression of sexuality is the only thing you choose based on what you are comfortable with doing. Repressed desires is normal for some, and abnormal for others."

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        • Sog
          9 years ago | pl

          "Your capacity for sexuality is developed in utero."

          What is this based on? No study/experiment has ever suggested such a thing.

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          • CozmoWank
            9 years ago | pl

            If gay people say they were born that way, I guess we just have to take them at their word. To do otherwise is mere speculation.

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            • Sog
              9 years ago | pl

              Taking them at their word is no better. There's no way that a gay person could know if he/she was born gay.

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    • Mister_Nobody
      9 years ago | pl

      Perhaps there's some truth in that.

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  • Avant-Garde
    9 years ago | pl

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2559021/Being-gay-DNA-researchers-claim-controversial-new-study.html

    I am in the LGBT community. Long before I ever read this post and some other post like it, I felt that sexual orientation is something that you are born with. If being gay was due to choice, than wouldn't being straight be due to the same exact thing?

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  • yourmothersir
    9 years ago | pl

    I've heard mothers saying they knew their kid was gay when they were little. Over all i'd let things play out and not try and persuade them to be either or.

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  • Bubblybunny
    9 years ago | pl

    It is something you are born with and here is WHY!
    During pregnancy at some point the fetus's brain is exposed to more of either estrogen or testostorone. This will eventually determine how the child feels about gender and sex.
    Usually if its a girl-estrogen. if its a boy-testostorone. But sometimes the fetus is exposed to the opposite hormone. This usually hapens more with boys because the mother is female after all.
    As for boys born last out of multiple boys it is more likely they will be gay because the mother's body might not have the amount of testostorone for the baby because of the perevious boys. as a result the fetus is exposed estrogen.
    However, predicting a child sexuality is not real.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago | pl

      That still doesn't apply to women.

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      • Bubblybunny
        9 years ago | pl

        Yes it does. As a women ages her levels of estrogen lower especially close to menopause. If she get pregnant with a girl and not exposed to estrogen but testostorone then she may become bi or a lesbian.
        Overall, sexual orientation you are BORN with.

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  • VirgilManly
    9 years ago | pl

    True gayness is manly men being very manly together.
    Nothing wrong with that.

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  • Sog
    9 years ago | pl

    I think it's a combination of factors - like a "nature vs. nurture" kind of thing.

    I think there are people who have hormonal imbalances that predispose them to homosexuality. But I also think that's only part of picture and may not even apply to everyone who classifies themselves as gay. Certain life experiences may play a role as well.

    Regardless, this is all just splitting hairs and shouldn't make any difference anyway. Whether or not you were "born that way" shouldn't be the sole justification for why homosexuality is ethical.

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    • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
      9 years ago | pl

      This. Although for some it may be "from birth" for others it's also from how they were raised or life experiences.

      to claim its ONLY one way is silly.

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