Fares Abbara
Dania Adra
English 302
Sexual Orientation
One of
the most controversial topics in our modern world is sexual orientation, it has
become a part of our identity same way our name age and sex are. Sexual
orientation has added to the diversity of people on this planet, but has this
diversity emerged naturally from sexual inheritance or was this idea enforced by
the societies we live in? An article by the independent suggests that sexual
orientation is something that genetically inherited, but I believe that choice
plays an important –if not the only- role in sexual orientation. Many people
have been raised in certain societies or have been subjected to certain forms
of sexual or any other form of abuse and this serves as a counter argument to
the allotment that sexual orientation is inherited and that there is no place
for choice, in addiction to that the same we see that the same article refers
to the fact that the gene or genes in the Xq28 region that influence sexual
orientation have a limited and variable impact. Not all of the gay men in
Bailey's study inherited the same Xq28 region. The genes were neither
sufficient, nor necessary, to make any of the men gay (the independent).
Therefore, whether you are gay straight or by it has to do with your own choice
and even if it was inherited what made it inherited was choice in the first
place and the only thing that is inherited is the mentality.
Although the idea of sexual
orientation being genetically inherited seems irrational for some people, what
if the bodies of gay people produce hormones that straight people don’t produce
which greatly influence the sexual desires of both parties. It is believed
based on certain studies that “a region of the X chromosome called Xq28 had some
impact on men's sexual behavior – though scientists have no idea which of the
many genes in the region are involved, nor how many lie elsewhere in the genome”
(The Independent). Maybe the sexual desires of homosexuals started as a
psychological state due to other environmental factors as the psychologist Michael
baily suggested, but these environmental factors might have changed the
chromosomes of homosexuals in order to allow them to fit better into their surroundings.
Work cited
“Male sexual orientation influenced by genes, study shows.” The
guardian Newspaper. The guardian. Feb 14th 2014. Web. Oct 20th
2015.
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