Replies to '06/06 "I'm Gay, OK?"'

"Maybe we naturally evolved this way to control population."

The only selective pressure in the past and currently (except for sperm donation or using a surrogate mother) is that gay people would be being "bred out" and the number of gay people would not be increasing.

I personally, from what I've read and understand, is that this is TECHNICALLY an "anomaly" in that it's not exactly what the human body and brain evolved to do. It doesn't mean it harms anyone, it doesn't mean it hurts anyone and it doesn't mean it's a mental disorder or that something needs to be fixed.  Since homosexuality doesn't hurt anyone there is no problem with it. That, for what ever reason, a portion of our population is born homosexual.

The only reason I see that the number of gay people appears to be increasing, is that it isn't at all. Is that, there were  many gay people all along, and now in this day and age it's becoming more acceptable to be gay, that people feel free to live life as they wish...including having the sex partners and life partner they desire. This is good. I cannot imagine the pain of going though your entire life being ashamed and hiding something that heterosexuals take for granted everyday. The ability to be with the one you love publicly with out fear of judgment and anger and sometimes bodily harm.

So as far as natual selection is concerned, the idea that homosexuals evolved into being doesn't make sense, it would actually work the opposite way. It's more likely a benign "anomaly" (for lack of a better term) that doesn't effect anyone and isn't "fixable"....

It's quite possible that there is something beyong natural selection that I'm not thinking of. That is why I wrote this post. But my understanding of evolution, which is damn good for someone who has studied on their own, doesn't agree with that statement.

However...I'm talking purely from a scientific stand point.

Personally. I myself am bisexual and I am talking about myself here too, so don't get all fussy at me when I say 'anomaly'....I'm using it in the truest sense of the word in a clinical sense.