We have no problem accepting that pedophiles are “born that way,” do we?

Uh..hell yes we do. Most people would say that some sort of really bad psychological traumas subconsciously turns people into pedophiles. They’d explain Michael Jackson’s alleged sexual leanings on a really messed up life and  not genes.

(I had wondered if anyone would be brazen enough to apply the “born that way” hypothesis to pedophilia.)

On another note…if anyone wonders why so many people think homosexuality to be messed up in the head, blame the bulk of gay activists – all their kneejerk explanations for “gay is okay” are bonkers.

“The APA says it’s normal.” Yeah, like the Officially Recognized Experts are never wrong. (And the APA undermines its claim to sanity with its two flip-flops on pedophilia.)

“It’s biologically caused, so it’s normal.” Aside from the lack of proof of a biological cause, it’s faulty logic to judge behavior solely on whether or not it’s biologically hardwired. Paranoid schizophrenia is biologically caused – is it normal?

“Lower animals do it, so it’s normal.” Average people think it’s quite nutty to try to compare sapient and non-sapient sexuality. The lower animals act purely out of instinct. If humans were that way Rebecca Watson would have gotten nailed in that elevator. (Cue the Aerosmith.) There is a dimension to the human mind, and thus to human sexuality, that is completely alien to the lower animals.

Best act he ever committed.

“Lower animals do it, so it’s normal.”

They don’t do it because they’re “born gay” they do it as a release mechanism because they can’t find a mate, or can’t compete for a mate. I hold that humans become gay for the same damn reason, but its neither hip nor politically correct to say things like that. That’s cool I’ll hold out for it all day long. At the end of the day it makes more sense than anything else I’ve ever read on the subject, plus there’s this-its my theory.

It probably happens at an early age and spirals out of control as puberty sticks in, and no doubt its augmented by environmental factors, and yes maybe even some genetic predisposition to the extent that some genes might enable a person to acclimate to such a lifestyle more quickly than others.

But at the end of the day, when all’s said and done, what it all boils down to is competition. It becomes cemented in the mind that “I ain’t good enough to get a good girlfriend” or maybe “girls hate me” or “girls like this or that type of guy” or “I have a small dick”.

I know that sounds simplistic but we are talking about attitudes that are inculcated in early childhood that are then exacerbated at puberty, then buried in the subconscious where they manifest as gay.

Then look what happens. The young boy who loves woman emotionally but can’t compete for them physically BECOMES a woman, and the one who can’t dominate a woman sexually finds his “mate”.

They don’t do it because they’re “born gay” they do it as a release
mechanism because they can’t find a mate, or can’t compete for a mate.

You got the release mechanism part right. There’s a lengthy article on alleged animal homosexuality. Money quote:

“Since animals lack reason [aka sapience], their means of expressing their affective
states (fear, pleasure, pain, desire, etc.) are limited. Animals lack
the rich resources at man’s disposal to express his sentiments. Man can
adapt his way of talking, writing, gazing, gesturing in untold ways.
Animals cannot. Consequently, animals often express their affective
states ambiguously. They “borrow,” so to speak, the manifestations of
the instinct of reproduction to manifest the instincts of dominance,
aggressiveness, fear, gregariousness and so on.”

Thus animals engage in genital contact to pacify potential aggressors, or to establish social dominance (something humans do only in prison situations). Or sometimes because they can’t tell between genders – I know of a species of frog where the make keeps mounting frogs until he finds one that doesn’t give off the loud croak that only males deliver.

I don’t buy the failed-competition-for-mating explanation, but it’s not the loopiest. One common set of factors observed in male homosexuality is the combination of an absentee father and a deeply alienating mother. Some guys become gay because during their childhood some adult dude wheedled sexual favors from  them. Psychological self-defense mechanisms set in, and full blown Stockholm Syndrome sets in.

One albeit nonscientific source sharing the abusive-male theory of lesbianism is Malcom X – in his autobiography he notes a woman who “became a lesbian” after a series of relationships with destructive males. Perhaps some turn to lesbianism because of otherwise bad experiences with alienating males – I can see how having Greg Allman for a stepdad might mess up a girl’s perceptions about the males of the species.

That’s just a few profiles associated with homosexuality, the ones I’m most familiar with. I dont’ know if anyone could provide an exhaustive list. I don’t think anyone has ever identified all the causes.

But don’t traits that aren’t continually reinforced eventually fade out of existence…..like our appendix?

Junk DNA can only hold on for so long.  If it doesn’t serve a purpose, the trait can be lost over enough time.

Fixed it for her.