If homosexuality was purely innate or genetic, it would not have become prevalent, and this due to homosexuals' failure to reproduce. Its genetic code should become extinct every time it would appear.
One might argue that homosexuality did not become extinct because its taboo forced the homosexuals to get married, not counting those who took refuge in religion as priests, nuns, or monks. However, now after two generations of openness, there sould have been a gradual reduction in theirs numbers with each succeeding generation.
The difference between masculine and feminine behaviors is due to the chemical differences in men and women. That is, homosexuality is a behavior dictated in part by one's hormonal complex. These are partly genetic and partly acquired.
One's mix of natural hormones and enzymes drive one's behavoir as do alcohol and the street drugs. This is so because behavior is a chemical reaction. In fact, an electro-chemical reaction. One neuron drops some molecules on another causing a response (chemical reaction) which travels along its axon (electrical reaction) to activate a cell or another neuron.
Even one's "free will" can easily change by changing one's body chemistry as one would behave differently under the influence of alcohol or a different set of hormones, enzymes, and other consumed chemicals. Even an environmentally shaped behavior cannot take place unless it changes the chemistry of that behavior.
Sexual drive is largely due to testosterone in both sexes. Yet, men's sexual drive is stronger because they have more of it. The Sexual attraction is due to a combination of hormones and environmental influences.
Certain normal hormone(s) may be inadequate or excessive. The ratio between male and female hormones in a person may be disproportionate. Or, a hormone may be defective. Or, the target cells may have reduced or increased sensitivity to them. Even, certain tumors may produce similar chemicals or chemicals that alter the effects of these hormones.
Like diabetes, homosexuality is subsequent to a chemical imbalance in one's body. However, homosexuality is a more complex condition.
Diabetes is not really a disease anymore than the fish's inability to breathe air since the diabetics would do well without medication in hunter societies as shown by the return of a group of diabetic aboriginals in Australia out of cities and back to their hunting life-style.
Diabetes is in parrt the problem of having failed to evolve the particular genetic code to deal with our increasingly high-sugar diet since the invention of farming.
Like diabetes, homosexuality is not a disease but a variant of biochemistry in one's blood resulted from one or more causes: genetic varience, mind/body connection, cultural gender-typing, induced biochemical changes, etc.
Would it be right for a diabetic to say that he/she was born to be diabetic, thus avoid treatment? Would be right for a homosexual not to delve into the genetic, chemical, and environmental causes of his/her condition, not to discover its causes, and not to seek remedy?
One's true gender must be determined genetically, and endocrine studies must be done before one can be labeled as true homosexual. And there are medications that can balance one's sexuality should the person desire so. For these, one would need to consult an endocrinologist.
DATED: 9 October 2000
NOTE: The article above is from "Thus Speaks Zarathustra", a 4-volume book (presently not available) by Behrooz Bassim, MD. This book is a 21st century sequel to Nietzsche's 19th century masterpiece. Other pages from it on the internet are:
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