Lesbian Sexuality is Nature not Nurture and Melissa Etheridge agrees!

Lesbian dating site Pink Sofa has released survey results which reveal that, despite arguments otherwise, sexuality is not a choice for most lesbians.

Of the more than 5,000 respondents in the Pink Sofa poll more than 60 per cent believed they were born lesbian or bi-sexual, with only six per cent attributing their sexuality to a life event or their upbringing.

Further, only seven per cent of respondents said their sexuality was a conscious choice.

About a fifth of participants took the middle ground believing their sexuality was a combination of nature, nurture and choice.

Pink Sofa respondents are not alone in arguing the genetic influence of sexuality.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge inadvertently supported the nature debate, with a recent post on The Daily Beast blog, referring to the banning of gay marriages.

“Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away,” she said.

Etheridge suggested that since the passing of Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in California and effectively calls into question the legitimacy of her marriage, the state could forget about getting any tax payments from her.

“I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state takes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds like that taxation without representation thing from the history books,” she said.

It seems as though the long standing nature v nurture debate will continue to be discussed for some time yet.

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