Growing up in Ja. I never thought that a person could be born being attracted to members of their own gender. In my family there was a cousin that always hung around his mother and the girls. He was softspoken and we didn't really toughen him up like the other boys because he didn't play football or wrestle with us. He was always suspected but never confirmed. We used to laugh about him until he came out on his myspace page. Jamaicans are very homophobic so he did not learn this from us and he always behaved very feminin. Is a person born this way or do they learn from someone. What do you think?

its a choice just like being a thief

Good argument. But they that they don't choose who they are attracted too.

thats a dumb statement so if your attracted to bull a bull your gonna sex?

Some people do have a sexually disposition to animals.

NoBody cannot born to be a fish, jus as swif say, is a choice, jus like whether to be a tief or not, an most ppl wa do it, a money dem a run dung, b4 dem jus gwaan hold d faith, an d others jus fukkin sick!!!!!!!!!, And another thing, mi no buy di story bout grow up with girls an mother alone an dem thing deh dats no excuse, Tupac grow wid him mother an sista alone, mi kno nufff yute wa no grow up wid no male figure inna dem yaard an dem no inna dem tings deh. A jus some different things a gwaan inna dem head, an dem wa try new stuff, jus like man wah fuk woman inna dem shithole, whole a dem a di same thing. Just tryin to answer the question.

@ casino. I believe they choose that lifestyle... sad

i think it's a genetic problem !

life is abouyt choices and genetically man an man neva mek fi play swordfight so a one way our body was created to be used so who a go di wrong way choose to go that way against nature and natural order. dem fi dead

Science contradict itself by saying on one hand that it genetically programmed into people and then the experts say that whatever a person becomes fixated on sexually is what they are attracted to. That is why they say they cannot cure Pedophilia, Bestiality and other sexual disorders. IE Homosexuality. However there are clinics that reform homosexuals which add more weight to the argument of choice. They make the choice through therapy to start being hetrosexual. By choice definatly.

ITS BY CHOICE... CUZ MI NUH NONE OF DI NASINESS IN MY GENES... IN SOME COUNTRIES ITS ACCEPTED, AND DI PEOPLE ARE LETTIN DEM GET MARRIED AND SHIT... SO DIS IS GIVIN DESE PPLZ DI RITE TO COME OUT OF DEM CLOSETS...... .... IS WRONG.......GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE!!

Tanx 4 summing dat up 4 me suga. I have to think carefully how I'm going to word the next Topic.

LOL... jus say it as it comes to yuh mind...Cuz discussions are all about freedom of speech....If kno wan likes di truth den dem can jus sling dem hook lol

ok u asked the question if being a homosexual is genetic meaning in the genes or just simply a matter of choice but in order to answer that question using your example of your cousin it would take me asking u a question is there anymore members of your family that are gay?, if not i guess its just a matter of choice but if the answer is yes which i seriously doubt then its in your genes (SO U NEED A NEW WARDROBE LOL) but seriousy its a matter of choice in my opinion

I think homosexuality is a matter of choice brought on by some men's greed for money and the so called 'finer things in life'.

in my opinion its a choice just like everything else in life, gayness is not generic . dem a try mek it sound like a disease so people can feel srry fi dem

influence an choice, but mainly influencial due to the fact everybody is different and how they are treated (denied by a group of popularuty or watever that make them pick up the wrong crowd) whether by frends or family (like sissy). An as i seh, psychological factors that interact wid the specific person's attribute gives the result of some indulging in ...certain acts outta curiosity or seeking of acceptance. But jah know, from the BIBLE a preach it, how di bakside some god fearing man an woman......aahh bwoyy, imagine 2050 yo raaass, heterosexuals goin haffi hide inna sewer!!!

an then there's the capital factor, bwooy, pluck fi a buck to raa

bun dem

@tallp no other other members of the family is gay. Every post has supported the argument of choice over genetics. Like Matty say it was classified as a disease or genetic variation to gain sympathy and garnish tolerance. @chronic 387 you know something about the year 2050 the rest of us don't. Thanx 2 everyone for participating.