Dunkopf: Since Ewe Sheep is asking questions. I would like to ask a question. The scientific theory is that gay people are born that way as a matter of genetics. I subscribe to this theory. My question is where does bisexuality fir in? I think sexuality is kind of like a scale with one on one end and the other on the other end and shades in between. Can this be explained by genes though? At least the in between areas.
From what I have read, no one has really studied bisexuality much; I recall reading one study where participants could only participate in the study if they were gay, not bi. I don't mind that, they probably think their study will get fewer negative reviews if they don't 'muddy the waters', I even think their reviewers early on recommended that for that very reason.
Personally, my feeling is that it basically goes in the same category as homosexuality as far as being 'born that way'.
Everything the body does is controlled by 'genes' - every chemical reaction, every single thing the body does. They aren't all genes we inherit; genes are also used as messengers, as part of long series of processes that the genes we inherit may set up, but not actually execute, day to day.
I think that gay and bi behavior is controlled by the way the brain operates. I don't blame people for what they are born like, but I do expect people to take responsibility and treat other people decently.
I used to sit for a little boy, starting at age 2. His mom had horrible trouble getting him to eat. One day he was about 5, he came and sat on my porch with me and seemed like the saddest little kid in the world. He looked at me searchingly and said, 'I wish I was a girl'. His mom just seemed to HATE him, always comparing him to his older brother. WHY? I think because he was born different, she sensed that and she hated it. I don't think her picking made him DIFFERENT, I think he was born that way. I think her picking made him MISERABLE, though.
