2006-08-24 08:52:24 · 27 answers · asked by Tim 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
No society can't make you gay. Now it may help those who are gay and closeted come out...but they were gay to begin with. I don't know how many times gay people will have to say to straight people that ..IT'S NOT A CHOICE...before they get it. I mean don't you think that a gay person knows what they feel? Almost every straight person says they were born straight...but gays can't be born gay? We feel the same way you do. Our sexual orientation just developed into what it is...just like yours. What is so hard to understand about that? It's not the sex you have the decides your sexual orientation. How about a gay teenager that has never had sex before....he still knows he's gay even though he's never had a sexual relationship. It's what you feel, it's who you fall in love with, it's what comes naturally. You don't just wake up one morning and say "hey, I think I'll be homosexual from now on". I'm gay and I have been with my partner for 10 years. We adopted a son 6 years ago. He's now 9. Ok, so he has two Dad's - did we raise him to be homosexual...No. He's heterosexual. We can't change him to gay. He's has a little girlfriend at school...it's just who he is. But being raised in a Gay household didn't "turn" him gay. So, NO, you can't be turned gay by society or your family or whatever. Go out and find a nice gay family and make some friends...you'll get it then.
2006-08-24 10:11:31 · answer #1 · answered by The Tiki God 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No but society surely has influence on making a big deal out of homosexuality.
2006-08-24 16:52:19 · answer #2 · answered by Necole 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Nope, but it does have a great deal of influence in making homosexuals who "come out" more acceptable and less frightening!
I don't think any homosexual has been "Turned" gay, ever.
I only believe that because of our advanced society we have made it less life threatening for gays to stop living in fear!
2006-08-24 15:58:06 · answer #3 · answered by DEATH 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It depends on what you mean by "society." If you mean social factors that have an influence on the developing sexual orientation of an individual? Yes, it does. Peers have a tremendous affect on sexual orientation development, especially during pre-adolescence. Sexual orientation is NOT just the end result of a biological process. Rather it is the end result of biology + social factors. In other words, an INTERACTION of these two classes of forces. Notice that I used the term "sexual orientation" there and not "homosexuality." That's because all orientations are probably the end result of: biology + social factors. I think that perhaps even asexuality is the end result of both biology + social factors operating in and around a developing individual.
2006-08-24 17:04:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. in spite of the fact that I see straight people around me all day that I would never want to become...I have never been influenced into being gay...that's like saying I was influenced into having blue eyes.
2006-08-24 18:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It has more of a influence on trying to make someone try to be what some people feel is normal, but we can't change who we are, it's sad when you think that there are people who kill them self because people won't let people be who they are without trying to change them.
Ummm jeepchick_sc... you got to be kidden, that's like saying gay people are made that way but straight people have a choice.
2006-08-24 15:57:17 · answer #6 · answered by Super 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no not at all some people are born that way and others things that have happened in there life make them that way. I love being with men and women i choose women because the sex is better and so is the relationship.
2006-08-24 16:41:48 · answer #7 · answered by iguanatt 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. They made me a lesbian. I was just an average girl living in a small Midwest town. Then I started watching tv. I began to believe everything I saw and heard. I ate tons of junk food and I followed every fashion trend I could afford. Finally, I got heavy into cable, surfing the channels where good girls should never go. I saw the "L Word". I watched it and within the first four minutes I had become a lesbian. Now I live in Detroit with my biker girlfriend. I have lots of tats and I smoke cigarettes. I lhave sex constantly and I hate almost all men. I should have been a Sunday School teacher, but society got to me first.
2006-08-24 15:57:02 · answer #8 · answered by Isis 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
No. if "society's influence" had anything to do with it, given the open hostility exibited by many, there wouldn't be any at all.
2006-08-24 17:23:04 · answer #9 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I went to catholic school, was raised irish catholic, and everything on tv when I was growing up told me that gay wrong wrong. I fought with myself for years trying to prove to myself that I was straight - it didn't work. Nothing made me gay except the fact that I was made this way. It's the way my maker made me, I the more I fought it the worse it got.
2006-08-24 16:04:53 · answer #10 · answered by Alexis 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋