im doing a project in class .. and i was wondering . does being a homosexual come as a choice or is it soemthing we are born with
2007-05-11 06:11:04 · 34 answers · asked by jessi g 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
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2007-05-11 06:15:21 · answer #1 · answered by ron s 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
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2007-05-15 02:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From everything I've ever experienced, I'd say you're born with it. Firstly, because... there a lot of very young kids, 4 or 5 years old, who, not having any idea what 'homosexual' or 'gay' means, are already responding to feelings for the same sex. When I was tutoring a class of 4-year-olds, there was one boy who, after listening in on a group of girls talking about who they were going to marry, annouced he was in love with John (another little boy in the class) and would marry him. His obvious instinct towards homosexuality was completely unaffected and genuine. To those who would respond that he was just imitating people around him, I checked, and neither of his parents are gay, nor the cousin who would sometimes pick him up from school. Quite the opposite, they were rather conservative.
This isn't the only case; many of my own gay friends attest to feeling "this way" for as long as they can remember.
Secondly, if homosexuality was something people were able to choose, surely all the gay people who come from very homophobic backgrounds would just "choose" to be straight? Why would you choose to be something that makes your family/friends reject you? I can't see the logic in that argument.
We can't really say *why* some people are gay, but it looks like we're stuck with it, so we might as well make the best of it!
2007-05-11 06:29:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that all people are certainly born with certain sexual tendencies.
BUT, as an adult the "act of sex" of any nature is a choice.
Heterosexuals "choose" to have sex with people of the opposite sex! They are not forced (unless raped). That does not mean that they are forced to be attracted to the opposite sex, but the "act of sex" is a choice in there lives.
Pedophiles claim that just like homosexuals and heterosexuals they were born that way! Does that make it right? It is still there choice to go through with the act! Again the actual act is a choice.
A person can be attracted to animals, but the act of sexually being with an animal is there choice alone!
Homosexuals are no different and just because its between two consenting adults does not mean that it is no longer a choice.
2007-05-11 07:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by Jimmie K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I'll answer your question with a quest. What logical reason would one have to make this choice? Why would someone choose to be an outsider, a minority, an outcast?
It's illogical to think it is a choice, it makes absolutely no sense. There is no single reason for anyone to ever make this choice.
Homosexuals will tell you they were always gay as far back as they can remember, they just didn't understand that it was different or less common, and didn't know the words for it.
In other words, none of us had a say in this.
We know it's something in the womb, but it's unknown if it's genetic or not.
2007-05-11 06:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by Luis 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not sure if it's something you're born with but I definitely know that it isn't a choice. No one chooses who they are attracted to--it just happens. I guess it's possible to be born a certain orientation but I think that the people of whichever gender you prefer comes later in life, as your personality is developing. Like I am sure I wasn't born attracted to women with long hair and green eyes--but I know I, at least, have been very attracted to females ever since I was 4.
2007-05-11 06:28:38 · answer #6 · answered by Missy K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sexual orientation is how you were born, and it's part of who you are.
The choice people have is whom to date and whom to sleep with, if anyone. A lesbian can technically choose to date and have sex with men, but she will never be happy doing that.
As for the whole "gay gene" thing, I'm not a scientist & I've never studied it. However, I know that I did not choose to be attracted to both males and females. I was kissing girls on the playground at school long before I even knew "gay" meant anything other than happy. As a teenager coming to terms with my bisexuality, I became suicidal when I discovered how much hatred there is against GLBT people in our society. A choice? I think not.
2007-05-11 07:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by Happy go Lucky 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Scientific researchers have shown that being gay is based on biological and genetic factors.
Even the ultra conservative president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has said that scientific research "points to some level of biological causation" for homosexuality & "I am absolutely confident that a large number of homosexuals are telling the truth when they say they did not choose that orientation."
An October 2004 scientific research publication stated that scientists at the University of Padua have found that women tend to have more children when they inherit the same genetic factors linked to homosexuality in men. This fertility boost more than compensates for the lack of offspring fathered by gay men, and keeps the “gay” genetic factors in circulation.
Another study published in Human Genetics in February 2006 examined X chromosome inactivation in mothers of gay sons and mothers whose sons were not gay. Researchers found extreme differences between women who had gay sons and women who did not.
A Canadian university study published in June of 2006 stated that, although researchers have known for years that a man's likelihood of being gay rises with the number of older biological brothers, that the new study found that the so-called "fraternal birth order effect" persists even if gay men were raised away from their biological families.
2007-05-13 17:04:57 · answer #8 · answered by χριστοφορος ▽ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow. I can't believe that people are still asking this question. Isn't it clear that it is not a choice? Why would someone choose to live a life that so many people hate and even kill because of it (Matthew Shepherd). So many kids are suicidal and chronically depressed. Why would anyone choose to live a life like that?
I am happy to be gay. I live the life I have always dreamed of living. I love who I am, and I am thankful that I have friends and family that love me unconditionally. Not all are so lucky and my heart goes out to them.
2007-05-11 06:29:07 · answer #9 · answered by Samarama 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
merely help her, and enable her understand which you nonetheless love her. In a friendship form of way, besides. besides. while it includes sexual orientation, human beings are like- and that i understand that is unusual making this assessment- computers, of all issues. a guy or woman's sexual orientation is so ingrained of their being and unchangeable, regardless of so-pronounced as "scientific care", that it quite is an important portion of any sexual interplay they could have. Be grateful that your pal does not have a processing errors. Being gay, or bi, or transgendered, is like having a distinctive OS than at as quickly as human beings: it became by no skill chosen by making use of them or placed there by making use of their dad and mom, it merely got here alongside with something of the equipment. the particularly some stuff that works for at as quickly as human beings could not artwork for LGBT human beings, yet a minimum of they're nonetheless functional human beings.
2017-01-09 15:54:21 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋