Thread: Homosexuality, how can it not be considered an abnormality?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Scientifically speaking, yes it's an abnormality. Evolutionally speaking, yes it's a flaw.

But why a flaw? I don't get it. I'll have to continue to disagree.

In your second paragraph you even state possible benefits it could have to society. If it were
flawed, it would not appear anymore in the long-run. But it rather seems to be a self-regulating
feature of the evolutionary process that benefits society, occurs naturally and makes it seem
even strictly biologically speaking natural. If it makes things better and therefore happens in
evolution, how could it possibly be considered abnormal? It adds to variety.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...sexuality.html

http://www.danaanpress.com/hsex.html

"Simple reasoning shows that evolution cannot explain homosexuality - how would a homosexuality gene get selected for?" "Why have the genetic traits predisposing to homosexuality not been eliminated long ago?"

Such arguments are surprisingly common - and completely wrong.

Originally Posted by RedfishBluefish

As for the biological part, it is my understanding that there are some evolutionary benefits to having a certain proportional of homosexuals in the population, although I don't know the details of why.

You should check out the two links above. They're about that.