Almost everything we do as animals has a) survival, or b) reproductive reasons behind it. We have to survive to sexual maturity in order to procreate in other words. When we look at almost all we do there is some strategy tying in a, b or and and b above... until we come to homosexuality. That then seems to fly in the face of evolution and procreation. BUT most animal groups display homosexuality and that it continues to survive in the gene pool it must have some evolutionary advantage ultimately linked to a and b above.

Of course gay people actually do reproduce so as to why the genes continue is not so hard to answer as to what the evolutionary advatage is of homosexuality in nature. That said, many homosexuals never reach sexual maturity because of hate deaths and suicides :-(

One train of thought is a kind of 'keeping you hand in' approach to reproduction and the fact that humans developed pleasurable orgasms means anything that gives that pleasure will be utilised. There are as many ideas as for why it happens as there are detractors of it being evolutionary. That it exists, and will likely continue to exist, is without doubt really.

I found a short precis type idea which expalins some ideas. Hope it is of help.

What_is_the_scientific_explanation_for_homosexual_behavior


The thread is going a little off topic and I apologise for my part in that already

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