Most of us fail to understand why anyone would want to engage in homosexual activity. To the average person, the very idea is either puzzling or repugnant. Indeed, a recent survey indicated that only 14% of men and 10% of women imagined that such behavior could hold any "possibility of enjoyment."

The peculiar nature of homosexual desire has led some people to conclude that this urge must be innate: that a certain number of people are "born that way," that sexual preferences cannot be changed or even ended. What does the best research really indicate? Are homosexual proclivities natural or irresistible?

At least three answers seem possible. The first, the answer of tradition, is as follows: homosexual behavior is a bad habit that people fall into because they are sexually permissive and experimental. This view holds rat homosexuals choose their lifestyle as the result of self-indulgence and an unwillingness to play by society rules. The second position is held by a number of psychoanalysts (e.g., Bieber, Socarides). According to them, homosexual behavior is a mental illness, symptomatic of arrested development. They believe that homosexuals have unnatural or perverse desires as a consequence of poor familial relations in childhood or some other trauma. The third view is "biological" and holds that such desires are genetic or hormonal in origin, and that there is no choice involved and no "childhood trauma" necessary.

I would like to hear people's views on Why Men Turn Gay and Women Turn Lesbian.

Fear or hatred of the opposite sex. For me it can either be choice or mental trauma, nothing natural about it.

Am no Lezbo....ion know ;

Evil spirit dey dance shoki for their head na

I think it's mental illness...

as aphilosopher, homosexuality can be caused by an early abuse in life i.e an older person was constantly abusing you way back in your childhood or one of your parents praticed such a life which in turn, imprinted it in your genetics

it is more than mental illness

my brother hahaha oh my world.

being excessively close with your best friend

prettyjo:
being excessively close with your best friend

exactly