[UUPoly-L] Perhaps there is some truth in your statment.

["PDX Couple" <pdx-couple@comcast.net>]

Hi Keith

I think your statement has some truth.  But it is not complete.  Yes 
environment and culture has some components but so do genes.

I have seen very aggressive two year old boys.  I have observed very mild 
two year old boys.  I have observed some aggressive girls but more 
non-aggressive girls.  Raising children and teach in RE classes show you the 
wide range of behaviors long before environments and cultures have kicked 
in.  Mothers tell about very active little boys before they are born.  Same 
with unborn girls.  And in real life that behavior continues.

Thank you for your insights.  Yes truth has many forms and different 
manifestations.

Doug
Portland, OR


>  I came up with a theory recently that I'm quite fond of, though I don't
> have the knowledge to even suggest it's born out by any research - anyway:
> I figure we're all born, very simply, as sexual.  Not hetero-, not guy or
> lesbian, not bi-.  What we learn as we grow and are brainwashed by culture
> is the expectations and rules of our environment. We learn how boys and
> girls are "supposed" to act and feel from our environment, and most of us
> accept that, even if it isn't quite what we feel inside.  It's peer
> pressure, and we conform.
> If we are in a particularly accepting community and family, we may have
> more flexibility, we may be accepting of others or our own desires to be
> openly other-than-heterosexual, but it takes quite a personality to fight
> that compulsion to conform.
> For myself, I have always identified as heterosexual, and still do at the
> age of 45, but I'm noting a softening of my assumption that I am only
> interested in women. I doubt I will ever move toward bisexuality, but I
> cannot say that it is impossible.  As I've become more comfortable with my
> own sexuality, I find the boundaries are less clear than I've always
> assumed.
> So in summary, I think sexual orientation is both chemical and a learned
> behavior, and that sometimes we learn what our culture teaches, not what 
> our
> chemistry would choose if left to its own devices.
> Comments?
> Best - Keith
>
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