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What is the connection between watching gay porn and becoming gay?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

No cause & effect: Watching gay pornography will not cause a person to become a homosexual. Homosexuality is not a learned behavior.

Answered 4/1/2013

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