Quote Originally Posted by Gallardo
I assume the article explores the motives of lying based on sex but clearly one cannot escape the conventions of society in creating biases.
Maybe I'm going to stir up a hornets nest here but it's not my intention.

If socialisation is so strong why are there so many gays?

I was brought up in a small mining community. There were eight males of my precise age brought up in a similar environment on the same street. Looking back it was a tolerant community accepting a wide range of diviancy, both social and sexual. However it was a traditional heavy industrial community and outwardly very male dominant but domestically female dominant. Two of those eight males are gay. If socialisation was so powerful those two gay males, one who is still a very good friend of mine, should have been beer drinking, soccer loving and horny for any female who breathes.

Now I can't explain a biological imperative for their sexuality but it does lead me to question the strength of socialisation. One can learn to be a social chameleon but those two gay males must have had powerful feelings within them to be openly gay and resist the socialisation process of the environment they were raised in.