why does homosexuality exist?

[DoNotFeedTheSneed]

I'm not saying this to own the gays or anything like that, I'm genuinely curious. Why did it evolve as a trait in humans and some other mammals? what causes it to trigger? is it genetic?

 

[lurk_moar]

So that there are more single uncles around to help raise the tribe's kids.

 

[Fag Albert]

they exist so my name makes sense

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Wouldn't that just be gay/lesbian?

Gays have higher IQ's than average, though

 

[Spastic]

First off homosexuality has been seen in basically every species of animals that are studied about this are observed to have had homosexual sex, and in some cases, even have same sex special bonding

Animals also try to hump everything that exists from dead rats to eachother to sofas, that doesn't make them homosexual. That makes them animals. I wish you wouldn't bring up the weakest argument first.

 

[The Voicemail Devil]

Natural selection is merciless to traits that harm genetic fitness as directly and as strongly as homosexuality. If it had its way, all homosexual instinct would have been completely bred out of us in prehistory.

One must conclude that God loves homosexuals and has been performing a miracle to protect them for all this time.

 

[DumbDude43]

Natural selection is merciless to traits that harm genetic fitness as directly and as strongly as homosexuality. If it had its way, all homosexual instinct would have been completely bred out of us in prehistory.

One must conclude that God loves homosexuals and has been performing a miracle to protect them for all this time.

millions of years and natural selection still hasn't managed to weed out schizophrenia, lactose intolerance, bad eyesight, and all sorts of other obviously detrimental traits either
the conclusion is that these are not (purely) hereditary traits, and thus not really subject to being removed from the gene pool by selection pressure

 

[Kenya Jones]

Animals also try to hump everything that exists from dead rats to eachother to sofas, that doesn't make them homosexual. That makes them animals. I wish you wouldn't bring up the weakest argument first.

Explain same-sex bonding in animals that do that.