When hearing about the nature-nurture debate I often hear about criminal studies or personality differences and similarities in twins, but one very large debate concerning nature vs. nurture is that on homosexuality. Everyone has their own opinion on why someone is the sexual orientation that they are: some people think they were born that way, and others don't. In the article Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture the author, Ryan D. Johnson, takes a view at both sides of the debate. He gives facts about the biological debate, talking about different studies done on homosexual men's brains, finding that certain areas of the hypothalamus (area of the brain related to sexual drive and function) were significantly larger in gay males than in straight males. He then also talked about the nurture side of the debate, talking about ancient Greek cultures, and how different parents raise their children.
Even though the article showed both sides of the debate, it was quite clear that Johnson was biased in his opinion. I think that he believes that homosexuality is something someone is born with because he gives much more logical evidence towards that. Even when he talks about the impact of parent's behavior on a child's sexuality he discredits it by saying that gender roles shown in everyday life would then overturn the parents influences on sexual orientation. When reading this article I would agree with him that sexuality is more biologically influenced then socially when it comes to which gender someone choses to like, because of the evidence shown in the article.
