# The Truth About What Causes Homosexuality **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657 "2013-04-02T19:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/21 "2013-04-03T00:42:58Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Right. Because we all know that before vaccinations, there were no gay people.:rolleyes: The 25th century’s time traveling vaccination program “De-Pox the Past” has… err… _will have_ a lot to answer for. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/22 "2013-04-03T00:48:48Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > So are Jenny McCarthy’s kids gay now? Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/23 "2013-04-03T01:24:08Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? One word. Placebo. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/24 "2013-04-03T01:38:23Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? Turns out that BFS3 (the bad fashion sense gene) codes for a protein that binds with mercury and prevents it from crossing the blood-brain barrier. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/25 "2013-04-03T03:35:23Z")
I know you aren’t being serious, but if we are going to judge Italy based on the fact it has a few crackpot scientists crazy enough to get their names in the paper spouting drivel, what verdict would that return upon our own nations? ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/26 "2013-04-03T05:51:53Z")
I’m Italian. I love my people. But they are positively ungovernable, illogical, indecisive, unproductive, ineducable and sometimes insufferable. In other words, they are Italians, Lord love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/27 "2013-04-03T15:24:45Z")
So, are they going to work on a vaccine against homosexuality? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/28 "2013-04-03T15:31:14Z")
You don’t want to know how they’d administer it. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/29 "2013-04-03T15:37:14Z")
Cool - now tell me exactly what causes heterosexuality? I mean, really - why would any heterosexual want to put _that_ in _there_? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/30 "2013-04-03T23:02:35Z")
> [@gunnergoz](#): > > I’m Italian. I love my people. But they are positively ungovernable, illogical, indecisive, unproductive, ineducable and sometimes insufferable. In other words, they are Italians, Lord love 'em. You mean that we’ve been CATS all along? ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/31 "2013-04-03T23:25:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? Depends…did you get your shots in the arm or in the mouth? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657.md?page=1)