Homosexuals, Variation or Disorder? Options

[Comptine]

Do you think homosexuality is the result of natural variation in humans (like how people have different eye color) or is it the result of a mental disorder?

I'm asking this because I recently watched a show that was centered around this debate.

I think it's a natural variation. I don't know why but I just do. I see different sexual orientations like the different colors in eyes. It just occurs.

Your opinion?

[sadolakced acid]

you want to know why it's not nurture?

there was a boy, recently born, that had a circumcision go bad. the doctors had to amputate.

scientists thought that this might be a good thing to use to expirement. so they gave him a sex change operation, and told his parents to raise him as a girl. John was now Joan.

(this is a real expirement by the way)

anyways; when 'joan' was a teenager 'she' was given estrogen and stuff. She thouroughly belived she was a girl. Society told her she should like boys. that's what she was being taught.

and so, the scientists said it's all nurture. 'joan' was a normal teenage 'girl', or so it seemed.

however: what the scientists didn't do was a follow up. years later 'joan's' mother told 'him' what happened.

It was like a revalation. he (john/joan) realized why he'd liked girls and wanted to pee standing up. etc. etc.

so he had his sex changed back and got married.


And so; if it is nurture that decides this; why was not joan a normal 'girl'?