Paul asks:

>  Is homosexuality a choice, or a biological condition?

It's both, because there are two distinct forms of homosexuality. The
non-choice form arises very much because it is a hard-wired biological condition.
Gender is not absolute. There is as much a continuum of gender-controlled
behavior in humans, or any other vertebrate for that matter, as there is skin color .


The second form occurs because sexually aggressive, "normal" males are
constrained in situations where their only outlet is with other males, such as in
prisions. This form of homosexuality may be described as a "choice," but neither
should it be unexpected. Male mammals are inherently sexually aggressive and
obtain much of their power and prestige from that aggressiveness.
Nevertheless, outside of this unusual context, this form of homosexuality would never
occur among these "normal" males.

Nonetheless, quite often young, subadult "sexually healthy" males in most
mammal species, including humans, often engage in practice copulations with other
young males before they're ready for the real thing, and that too is a form
of homosexuality, albeit transient.

Wirt Atmar

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