Wait...if homosexuality is a choice, then heterosexuals could choose to be aroused by the same sex?

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Let me add: I couldn't possibly be aroused to members of the opposite sex, try hard as I may.

Well, I think we're slipping into idealism here. After all, the question isn't about love, it's about sex. I could fall in love with someone from the opposite sex, yes, but physiologically I'd fail to display the slightest bit of arousal to even the most attractive member of the opposite sex. I realize sexuality is on a gradient scale, and in this sense I might be represented as exclusively homosexual; the issue, it seems, is not a matter of choice at all, but the organization of a neural system designed by heritable traits that work in combination with a particular set of developmental experiences, such as differential levels of prenatal androgens, and so on. Look at that, I've answered my own question!

"Natural" has nothing to do with morality. It's natural to have stinky breath, but this doesn't make it right. Interesting how sexual orientation, which in principle is like any biological trait, gets tangled up in the morality web.

Right, so on that note you'd want to have killed (as in eliminated from the human genome) people such as Wittgenstein, Sarah Bernhardt, Jean Genet, Lord Byron, and Michelangelo. Right, right, good reasoning there buddy.

Answer 1

I disagree that homosexuality is natural. Its a psychological desease, they should be trated. If not, than they should be killed, afterall so many birds have been killed to avoid birdflu.

Answer 2

For some people homosexuality is just sexual variety or exploration, but becomes a "life style choice" when they find real relationship which is homosexual. I know a girl who went off to college, tried about everything and now has a girl friend. Before she went to college, she was boy crazy and was clearly hetrosexual. Either she was the best actress I know or her sexual preferences changed over time.

Many guys who for one reason or another are outcasts growing up can find acceptance in a homosexual relationship or gay community. The relationship may not initially be about sex, but there is a natural connection between emotional intamacy and sexuality. It isn't like you wake up one day and decide you are gay, it is that you wake up one day and realize you have feelings for Steve.

There are different paths to ones sexuality which can begin earlier or later in life. Ones sexuality is tied in with how one views oneself, so we can be very revisionist when looking back at how we got where we are. Many teens must question "is this the normal experience"-- sexuality can be fairly awkward. People coming out of divorce or abuse can also question the normalcy of their experience of sex. Sometimes in those moments, people's sexuality can alter in a variety of ways including orientation.

Much of sexuality is seeking acceptance of one's base sexual desires. People will go where they find this acceptance, For the vast majority of people this means an exclusive hetrosexual relationship, but clearly many people have found this acceptance elsewhere.

Answer 3

You are only homosexual if you had sex with the same sex. In this sense, it is just a matter of choice because you can choose celibate too.

Otherwise it's not a choice, of course. I was trying to watch gay movies many times and they didn't turn me on at all, even though I do have gay fantasies some times.

Answer 4

This is also for all those who think there's no reason why anyone would choose to be gay/les/bi:

Believe it or not some heterosexuals do exactly that. Especially females who go to women because of they're sexist ideas about men from being hurt to many times by them.

And by the way, sexuality is both something your born as, and/or choose. It's not black and white as many people would like to believe and would like you to believe. Some people are born gay, some people choose it.

Experience: I've met people of both catagories.

Answer 5

Yes, I agree with your question. But, you see, I choose to love a man and not a woman. It is all about choice I believe.

And yes, homosexuality could stem from a past abuse of the opposite sex. But frankly, I do not believe homosexuality to be part of a person when they are born.

Period.

Answer 6

homosexuality is not a choice it has to do with gens and hormones. do you really think that people would choose the life of a homosexual? i mean society is getting better but is still a far way off of full acceptance.

Answer 7

Well then, I suppose this is a free points question and answer. But I think you shouldn't be thinking of killing people.

Answer 8

some people are homosexuals at birth, yes, god is with you, he loves you. most homosexuals are molested as children. and made that way.

Answer 9

interesting theory