Same-Gender Attraction: Nature or Nurture?

By Sena Akagbor

Why are we attracted to the people we desire? And how much choice, if any, do we have in that attraction?

Few questions about human sexuality generate more certainty, controversy and disagreement than same-gender attraction. Some point to biology. Others to childhood, environment, culture or experience. Religion adds questions of morality, while law and politics turn private lives into matters of public debate.

But what does the evidence actually show?

In Same-Gender Attraction: Nature or Nurture?, Sena Akagbor moves beyond slogans and assumptions to examine one of the most contested questions in human sexuality. Drawing on genetics, prenatal development, psychology, childhood experience, culture, history, religion, law and lived experience, he separates what is known from what is merely claimed.

The book also confronts a particularly important African question: Is same-gender attraction foreign to Africa, or is the history far more complicated than popular debate suggests?

Neither advocacy nor condemnation is allowed to substitute for evidence.

This is not a book that tells readers what they must believe. It asks something more demanding:

What if the truth about why we desire whom we desire is more complicated than either "nature" or "nurture" can explain?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHTJ23J8
• ISBN13: 9798171983123
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"