You guys/gals are not going to like this, because I can’t remember where I read about it, but similar opinions were presented in a couple of medical and psychiatric journals over the years.
We live under a mildly variable sun, which gives us a healthy dosage of radiation. Without such, various mutations probably would never have developed to make the world as it is. Geological strata holds the remains of many dead end species and the traces of new, survivable mutations.
This contributes to evolution. It was once even surmised that without the level of radiation we get, that the world would probably be populated by vegetation and low level bacteria-like organisms.
While homosexuality has been around probably forever, it has been noticed that the incidence of it increases every time a population goes over a certain level and starts crowing itself into small areas instead of spreading out. Prior to our technology, homosexuality would have been a form of population control, it was reasoned, because of the inability to male/female reproduce.
Bisexuality is not considered homosexuality in many opinions.
Down through history, an increase in homosexuality has been observed in the great cities of the past, where the standard of living went up and people lived virtually on top of each other with the corresponding problems inherent in such clumping. In societies where the community is more spread out, similar to the Vikings, Scottish Clans, American Indians, African tribal states, Brazilian tribal territories, the mortality rates are high through natural means and combat, homosexuality levels in the population are low.
Usually, they are so low, that very rarely are such individuals treated with the hostility faced in today’s world. Often, they are considered different and left alone to do their own thing like anyone else.
Here, the learned opinions split.
One faction feels that homosexuality is simply a form of birth control created by nature to thin out an over crowded population when war or disease does not decimate it enough, yet still providing useful members of society.
The other faction agrees in part, but is of the opinion that since a very high number of homosexuals lean towards creativity in the arts, that they are an extension of a creative society.
Either way, the inability to reproduce naturally is seen as a natural population control, which appears as necessary throughout the centuries. A true homosexual, male or female, cannot willingly copulate with an opposite sex partner because the sexual cues are not there.
Today, artificial insemination changes that.
If this is the case, then watch China for the following reasons:
Huge population crowded into limited land.
Strained resources forcing State limited birth control which, due to ‘tribal’ mentality, encourages the birth of more men than women.
A great disparity in the male/female population. Women are now in short supply. (I guess it never dawned on the general public that promoting the birth of boys without women just isn’t going to work.)
Overcrowding in most cities.
Insufficient deaths by war or natural means.
If we could ever get accurate records out of the secretive Chinese government, we might discover an increase in the numbers of homosexuals.
My personal opinion here.
With the exception of some form of mental/emotional illness, a homosexual does not just decide to become attracted to that which nature says he/she should be repelled, meaning same sex. Genetics has to provide the sexual cues and triggers naturally. Without them, humans would be as much interested in sex as an elephant would be in humping a tree.
There are recorded cases of people suffering emotional and mental trauma and changing sexual orientation and cases of them being changed back. However, no psychiatric therapy, to my knowledge, as ever persuaded a true homosexual to reverse polarity.
There is a time in a males life when he takes on feminine traits, where such attraction could be generated in not only homosexual males, but even straight ones, and that is pre-puberty. That is the age where one hears boys called ‘pretty.’
This is also the age which seems to attract most child molesters who prey on boys. Shortly after entering puberty, the boy looses baby fat, develops hair, bone growth turns him lanky, his face changes and becomes angular, his skin starts to roughen, his sex drive jumps, and with increased testosterone levels, he becomes more aggressive.
Child molestation of boys in that age drops sharply. There has been noted that prepuberty boys often voluntarily have exploratory homosexual acts i.e.; comparing and exploring their newly functioning equipment, plus since they mostly look a bit girlish, some physical penetration has been noted.
It is said that 1 out of 3 of all men have had a homosexual encounter before the age of 17. Usually through such sexual exploration. During such times, it is possible that the homosexual polarity emerges if it is there and bisexuality, it is theorized, might also arise from such encounters.
History is full of eras where young boys were used for sex and beauty.
Lastly, to confuse the issue even more, I read about a tribe in Africa where, until, marriage, the men hang with each other and believe in fellatio because it is felt that the consumption of male sperm infuses the ‘warriors’ with maleness, and makes them more fearsome in battle.
That has too be a learned behavior, because the men do marry and reproduce.