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However, other studies have found no difference.

. If gays normally do not reproduce, why is the gay biological composition still being passed on?

The type of pain they refer to is the abandonment of the mother or the behaviour of a very authoritarian mother.

gay men tend to have older brothers. Indeed, the more biological older brothers a man has, the greater his likelihood of being gay.

“gay gene”. There have also been headlines about an “alcoholism gene”, which makes people become alcoholics, and a “warrior gene”, which makes people unusually aggressive. Thing is, genes cannot always control behaviour, what genes can do -in some cases- is to create a tendency to develop or display certain traits or behaviour, as with the case of alcoholism.

The idea that an over-protective mother is also what drives

sexual orientation as well as the link between rape in boys and their future sexual orientation.

Researchers and specialists have been unable to find a ‘gay gene’ or a particular variable that exclusively determines the sexual orientation of an individual

According to some psychological studies, when we grow up, we unconsciously seek partners that resemble some of the key traits of our parents.

Many theories from the psychological perspective argue that individuals with an absent father tend to develop homosexual traits in a way to compensate for the lack of masculine affection they did not have whilst growing up.

f being gay is truly a choice, then people who attempt to change their orientation should be able to do so. But most people who are gay describe it as a deeply ingrained attraction that can't simply be shut off or redirected.

Depending on where they live, it may or may not be illegal for that employer to respond by firing them—something that happened in a number of states in 2015

Twenty-eight. That’s the number of states where it’s not against the law to discriminate against a gay person who’s looking for an apartment, applying for a job, or buying something from a store.

t is instituted more as a regime, and a compulsory one at that.

Here in the US, until the last century, women could not practice heterosexuality outside of marriage without extremely severe consequences.

Many lesbians do experience our lesbianism as a choice

It shows your lack of understanding of half of the human race, including half the population of homosexuals,

Okay, if that’s your truth, then you should say, “I was born that way. I didn’t choose it. I wish I had been straight.

The study adds support to the theory that environmental and biological factors work together to influence sexual attractions and behaviors.

For women, homosexual marriage rates were elevated among women whose parents were married briefly, and those who experienced long periods of mother absence due either to abandonment or death during the teen years.

The authors also confirmed previous research suggesting that children who experience parental divorce are less likely to marry heterosexually than children reared in intact families.

Being born in urban settings increased the probability of homosexual marriage and decreased the probability of heterosexual marriage.

October 2006 issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, authored by Danish epidemiologist Morten Frisch and statistician Anders Hviid,

[E]nvironmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay. I don’t think we will ever be able to predict who will be gay.”29

Other recent developments also suggest that homosexuality is not genetically determined. The Washington Post reported that bisexuality is fashionable among many young teen girls, who go back and forth from being “straight” to “gay” to “bi” to “straight” again.10

Spitzer interviewed more than 200 people, most of whom claimed that through reparative therapy counseling, their desires for same-sex partners either diminished significantly or they changed over to heterosexual orientation.

they should have the “right to marry” each other.

"Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way."

Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that.

If sexual orientation is genetically determined, then the concordance rate among identical twins should be 100%. If one twin is gay, so should be the other. Alas

And that choice can be evaluated in any number of ways, including whether or not it is good for human health and whether or not same-sex households are sub-optimal nurturing environments for vulnerable young children.

because homosexual conduct is clearly harmful to human beings in any number of ways,

I believe that people have the right to engage in any behavior that they choose, as long as their actions do not harm others, and I believe that gay sex and gay relationships do not cause harm to anyone. Therefore, people who are gay by choice have the right to remain that way

So your brain was influencing your sexual preference even before you were born.This can explain why many gay people feel that they have always been gay.Brain development does not stop at birth, though.

PET and MRI studies performed in 2008 have shown that the two halves of the brain are more symmetrical in homosexual men and heterosexual women than in heterosexual men and homosexual women. These studies have also revealed that connections in the amygdalas of gay men resemble those of straight women; in gay women, connections in the amygdala resemble those of straight men. The amygdala has many receptors for sex hormones and is associated with the processing of emotions.

A later study, which was performed in 2001, showed that HIV status has no significant effect on the INAH3.

In some societies, homosexuality is accepted, in others, it is frowned upon but tolerated, in yet others, it is a serious criminal offense, possibly punishable by death.

Your environment affects your sexual and romantic relationships.

If you come from a culture where alcohol consumption is forbidden,

Alcoholism runs in families not only because there is a genetic component to alcoholism, but also because children learn how to cope with stress by watching how their parents and their older siblings behave in stressful situations.

Affecting something is not the same as having complete control over it.

Genes can’t control behavior completely, though.

component

What if neither answer is right?

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Forget about boring introductions and conclusions; boring topics, redundant paragraphs, bad information and unplanned papers.

Would you go on a road trip with no plan or even a map? Probably not. If you’re one of those people reading this thinking “heck yeah I would,” then I’ll explain why you may want to rethink that.

if you don’t want to write the paper, people won’t want to read it.

What the hell does that even mean?

relentless demands for acceptance,

But maybe some become that way because they’re not attractive to the opposite sex.

It would be best to study the eventual sexual “orientation” of the adopted children of gay parents, but to my knowledge, no such study currently exists.

Having gay parents may also be a factor. A 2010 meta-study

Childhood sexual abuse appears to sometimes be a factor. A 1977 study f

A core problem with any biological explanation for homosexuality is that it seems anti-evolutionary. Any trait which discouraged breeding would presumably be bred out of existence.

48% of the cases the other one was not. This suggests environmental factors

Alfred Kinsey’s old seven-point spectrum of sexuality

For most, it’s likely a mix.

behavior; now it’s an identity.

no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors

sexual preference” to “sexual orientation

bisexuality” is being discouraged

the first draft is the down draft -- you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft -- you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed, or even,

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it. N

All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts.

Leaving the family home, feeling intense pressure to obtain high grades in connection with career aspirations, taking final exams, trying to establish a romantic/social life, dealing with (often very high) costs of college and possibly working at a job during the school year. What kind of jobs (if any) students can get after college also remains tenuous given the multi-year recession. 

rarely do schools give students the opportunity to demonstrate the good work that they do publicly.

One student uses her domain to showcase her artwork. Another chronicled her semester abroad. A third student has built a living CV, highlighting her academic research as well as her work experience.

that it is important to have one’s own space in order to develop one’s ideas and one’s craft.

the domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them. It is, after all, their education, their intellectual development, their work.

Instead of focusing on protecting and restricting students’ Web presence, UMW helps them have more control over their scholarship, data, and digital identity.

Students have little agency when it comes to education technology — much like they have little agency in education itself

These legislative efforts stress the need to protect students when they’re online, safeguarding their data from advertisers as well as from unscrupulous people and companies.

It makes sense when students find ownership in what they choose to create, how they put it online, and how it engages a broader audience.

Giving a student ownership over data means nothing if it doesn’t allow them to determine that data.

hastily constructed blog post for a class participation grade, then what is the purpose of making it public?

Traditional assignments don’t necessarily empower students when they have to post them in a public space.

position to control their work, their data, their identity online.”

I could even keep the domain after graduation.