Do you think that homosexuality is a choice?

Question

R u 1 of these people who think homosexuality is a choice or do you think that gay people are born this way.

Answer 1

No I don't. Much as I don't think heterosexuality is a choice or the state of being a Bisexual is a choice. I do believe that gays straights and bi-folk have the option to act or not on their impulses but as to what those impulses should be that they feel? Get real!

Answer 2

No, I think it's genetic, though some broad minded people may choose to experiment, in the end what you like sexually is pretty much pre-determined.

The interesting thing of course is that there are very few people who are completely gay or completely straight, the Kinsey report said that only 10% of the population (5% in each) fall into these two categories. The rest are bisexual to some degree or another. So whatever way you look at it, not only is sexuality not a choice, but there's a little bit of gayness in almost everyone.

Answer 3

There is increasing evidence that our gender identity and mating instincts are determined pre nataly as a result of the levels of hormones in the womb.

However a recent survey was contucted into the link between homosexualuty and homophobia - after completing a questionnaire to determine the level of homophobia - men were put in a room with a sort of straingage meter attached to their penis and shown gay porn movies. All the homophoc men had a strong sexual response yet all denied any response.

This supports the Kinsey theories that we are generally all bisexual - it's just that there is huge social pressure against us acting on our instincts. See how religion is used to manipulate people.

We are born the way we are - but we are socially pressured (sometimes with legal sanctions) to comply with certain codes of life - the only real choice is whether to be ourselves or to comply.

Chosing to be yourself requires more courage than almost anything else in life.

Huggs
Rikki

Answer 4

Straight people do not choose to be straight. It's the way they were born. If they had a choice, then that would mean they have the desire for gay sex in them. If they don't have the instinctual desire to have sex with the same sex, then they cannot choose to be gay. It's just not in them.

Same thing with gay people. They don't have the instinctual desire for the opposite sex. It's not in them.

People who have convinced themselves that being gay is a choice need to re-think the above description.
How can they know the answer if they aren't gay?

The only answer they can give to their straightness is that they, too, were born that way.

Religious people play the "choice" card because there's no other card for them to use. They just have no clue at all. Period.

Answer 5

It is a choice. God never created a third sex or whatever. It is clearly stated in the Bible that the Lord made a man and a woman in His own image and likeness...
if its not a choice, then why are there people who just turned homosexual after 20 yrs of living? And there are also those who testified that they were once a gay, but when they knew about the Lord, they turned away from such homosexuality and now they're straight...

Answer 6

Sexual orientation seems to be shaped by early childhood, as the result of a complex interaction between biological and psychological factors. There is no element of choice involved.

A lot of homosexuals/bisexuals go through an early phase of not wanting to be attracted to members of the same sex. Hence, if sexual orientation was a choice - then most of these people would have taken the "easy option" and become straight.

Answer 7

I think it depends on the person. I think some people who have a bad experiance with the oposit sex or are having trouble finding love then they become homosexual. On the other hand you love who you love and sometimes it is a member of the same sex. I don't know whether gay people are born this way or not. But I think that everyone is ment for someone and sometimes its a meber of the same sex.

Answer 8

a million) Sin would not exist, in my view. yet i'm not Christian. 2) Sexuality is a important part of who a human being is. Being non secular or nonreligious is a call that transformations periodically for the period of existence. I placed sexuality above concept because one has some distance more effective impact on existence than the alternative, and one is more effective commonplace than the alternative. So, the statements that sacred texts make on sexuality have little to no intending to me. 3) that's my concept that maximum homosexuals are born gay. As i'm agnostic, i have an extremely concentrated definition of what God is that if God exists. So, if God exists, then God made each and every person the great way they're. If God does not exist, then i assume scientists will to locate that sexuality is stressed out into our genes. My own and unscientific evidence is that each and each and every gay i comprehend has on the least another relative who's gay. 4) regularly, homosexuality is a call. I do comprehend of one million woman who chosen to be a lesbian for a mutually, then she chosen to be immediately. i assume she became going by technique of technique of a section in existence, and he or she or he did it out of interest and the ought to get concentration from someone. those people are probable poseurs. 5) the inducement of being gay isn't having to attend to getting pregnant! gay people actually have an section that embraces them with open hands, and they are gaining further and added protection from the authorities. (All striking concerns in my view.)

Answer 9

Science doesn't believe it's a choice. However science is also not certain if it is biological (so already at birth), or psychological (for example because of bad experiences in heterosexual relations.

I think it is really difficult to find out which. Even if we find something biological in all homosexuals, that doesn't mean that you are born with it. If you search for something biological in people who have the flu, they will probably find a virus. But that doesn't mean you've got that virus at birth.

Answer 10

Actually if you look accross cultures you will find some varied ideas on homosexuality, some cultures perform acts of homosexuality on the young men of their tribes as they revere semen as the gift of live, are they gay? All the men in the tribe are actually hetrosexual, or would it be called bi?

If something is viewed differently in other culutres and some men can be homosexual for different reasons and only for a small amount of time where does that put the debate?

Answer 11

I don't think it is geneti like one person said, though I do know a guy who has 5 brother and 3 of them, and him are gay! But I think that you are born gay, and it aint a choice, or at least a conscious one because I felt different, which I now know is gay, when I was about 4.