Dr Alfred Kinsey reported that 37% of men had experienced sex with other men to the point of orgasm and that half had experienced mental attraction or arousal towards other men. Anthropologists have found tribes where all young men engage in a homosexual relationship for a certain period of time before becoming heterosexual again. Boys in boarding school and men in prison turn gay for a while. All this evidence points to the fact that sexuality is fluid; that most of us could be attracted to members of the same sex and that the only things which stop us are cultural conditioning, opportunity or need.

counter: None of these statistics mean anything since they represent sample data and the sample size has not been revealed. obviously n>50 but how much greater; surely everyone wasn't asked about her/his sexual leanings/preferences.

The other problem is; most people lie about these things ; choosing not to be-judged/come-out-of-the-closet.

Using confidence intervals; it would be erroneous to claim one out of every ten people has had a homosexual experience. You can only say with a fraction of confidence(depending on the interval taken) that the claim is not false. Not that the idea is 100% fact.

The statistic we should be looking at is the one that suggests around 10% of people have had a sexual experience with a member of their own sex. This means that 90% of people haven’t. If only a tenth of people engage in an activity which nine tenths of people don’t then clearly not 'everyone' is gay.

We tend to assume that gay people are the ones who sleep with members of their own sex exclusively. We make no account for people who fantasise about gay sex, have one gay experience, or who enter into a short-term relationship with a member of the same sex. If we broaden the definition to include them then we can see that a great many people, maybe even most, flirt with the idea of same-sex sex even if they subsequently return to sleeping with the opposite sex.

One gay experience does not a gay person make. The media portrays images of gay people so often it is natural for people to wonder what gay sex is like. They may even experiment with gay sex, but if they ultimately return to straight sex then they must be straight, not gay.

If you broaden the definition of gay, then of course you can included within it whatever you want.

It is all about identity. If you decide to take into account the "not practicing gays" then you've got to take into account the men and women who take part in homosexual activity, but don't consider themselves gay.

Anyone who has had a dog will recognise its lack of shame in mounting other dogs. Homosexual behaviour has been identified in all species where people have bothered to look. The only animal where there seems to be a problem with this is mankind. We feel the need to label people one way or another when the truth is such labels are constricting and inaccurate.

Dogs mount other dogs for reasons of dominance, not sex. We can hardly assume to understand the reasons of any other gay sexual behaviour/behavior witnessed in the animal kingdom.

We also don’t know the response of other animals to homosexual behaviour.

We don’t know if they are shunned by the pack or not chosen to mate with. We enter into a strange world when we project our behaviour onto animals.

Most animals do not identify themselves, full stop.

animals prance about naked; don't walk erectly, do not get married(though there much confusion over this; certain animals spend their entire lives with their mate), the black-widow spider eats any male who impregnates her, dolphins reportedly gang rape their women; are you saying that all these things should be made acceptable in human society??

This statement give augurs the debate as to whether being gay is a social construct or someone innate. I personally believe that it is predominantly a natural thing, which is part of our DNA (research done into the matter and glands etc in the brain support this). However, I believe adolescence is a part of any young person's life to which anything can have a massive influence. Research has shown that children with gay or bi-sexual parents have a higher percentage of being gay or bi-sexual. However, whether this be due to the fact that they feel more free to explore their sexual prowace is another argument.

It may be that we live in a predominantly staright society and that we all have the capacity to be bisexual, however the society we live in has shaped our sexuality....

I personally believe that being gay is unchanging. You are what you are, and you have no choice in the matter. Same as the colour of your skin or your gender.

Yes, because we're born to be bisexual, it's normally. All the women as well as men could have relationships with the same sex people. What's really important is that you do love. Doesn't matter whom.

Where did you get that idea; Freud?

I can tell you very honestly that everybody is not having sex with everybody; please.

love need not be perverted by nor intermingled with lust.

People can have homosexual and heterosexual relationships, if not at the same time then one after the other. Clearly the drive to reproduce is one of the strongest drives we possess. But to suggest this drive can only exist to the exclusion of homosexuality is absurd. This again is a product of the thinking that people are either one way or the other. They are either gay or straight. When the truth is they can be both.

If people were predominantly gay then there would be no procreation and mankind would die out. The evidence to the contrary – in face the ever expanding number of people on the planet – proves most people are straight.

Many people may be in denial about their gay status, society also strongly rewards anti-gay behaviour. Therefore, it is hard for people to overtly support any gay ventures.

Having said that the viewing figures for such programmes as "Will and Grace", the following that openly gay television presenters attract and the ever-growing influence of gay culture indicates that people are increasingly willing to accept the gay within.

If most people are gay surely capitalism would have developed mechanisms to meet their needs. We know there’s a whole gay subculture so why aren’t the supposed majority of people who are gay catered for too? In fact, the lack of such provision and the fact that gay television and gay shops attract small audiences and much criticism proves that society rejects behaviour it does not identify with.

It flat out says in the bible that you can only mate with a man and a woman!!!! Nothing more and nothing LESS!!!!!!

it says that if a man beds a man they are both damned.

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