Are Most People a Little Bit Gay?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anal sex in a man stimulates the area around the prostrate, which creates sexual pleasure only achievable through sex with another man (or simulation of such). The most sensitive part of the female genitalia is the clitoris, which is not directly stimulated through vaginal intercourse with a man. Sex with another woman is more likely to stimulate the clitoris, and create sexual pleasure. Our human biology is designed for sex between people of both sexes. We are made to be bisexual.

In Ancient Civilizations such as Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt, there were no such terms as homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality. Indeed, based upon primary and secondary sources, it seems that it was normal and accepted in such civilizations to be bisexual. As Abrahamic (and even some Eastern) religions became more prevalent in Europe, preaching only opposite-sex intercourse, bisexuality was socially repressed. Indeed, now that religion is slowly dying in the Western world, we are beginning to return to our natural feelings and more and more of society is acknowledging bisexuality of varying degrees.

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. People can have sex for pleasure and non-reproductive purposes. The debate is not saying “most people are gay”. It is saying “most people are bisexual”, meaning they can have sex with people of the same sex while still procreating with the opposite sex. Please read the topic properly. In fact bisexuality, especially between women, makes people more fertile, therefore helping continuation of mankind MORE than just heterosexuality.

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. To put it bluntly, society is still “coming out of the closet”.

In that exact same section of the Bible, it says that having a round haircut, eating ham, wearing jewellery, women speaking in church and eating lobster also send you to hell. The Bible must evolve over time. The New Testament redefined how people should treat homosexuals, when Jesus told us to love and accept everybody. Besides, not everyone believes in the Bible/Q’uran!