Questions about homosexuality

[jay gw]

Any suggestion that homosexuality is due to some kind of population control is sort of begging the question: if population size is the factor then why aren't overpopulated countries like India and China more likely to have homosexuals than underpopulated ones? There's no evidence that overpopulated areas have more homosexuals.

It also leads to the truth that if homosexuality is some kind of population control mechanism is sure as hell isn't working because some places have no room left and the people go hungry by the millions.

I'd like to put forward the idea that if a culture does not condemn a homosexual lifestyle then those who are even only moderately attracted to their own sex -- are far more tempted to live the lifestyle. No man in a Mid Eastern culture - which all condemns gays - would be stupid enough to live with another man.

Despite what gay activists assert the fact a culture is more tolerant does encourage the continuance of homosexual expressions.

 

[Complexity]

jay_gw: I didn't suggest that the incidence of homosexual orientation in humans acts as a form of population control, I said that I thought I had heard of this effect in some other species. It really doesn't matter.

Regarding your assertion that no man in a Middle Eastern culture would be stupid enough to live with another man... What the hell are you basing this on? Gays in the middle east may not be out as much as those in parts of the U.S., but they are there, living and loving just like everyone else, and many of them live together.

The more gay-tolerant a culture is, the easier it is to live gay openly, but I don't think it has anything to do with the percentage of the population that is gay, or bi, or has participated in various forms of non-straight sexual exploration.