Do you remember when you "chose" to be heterosexual?

Question

Throughout the world two soft drinks are known as number 1 and number 2. These of course are Pepsi and Coke. To make a fair decision on which pop suits your lifestyle better it is only fair to assume that you must try both to make a fair choice.

So my question is, when did you try homosexuality in your path of "choosing" to be heterosexual?

Answer 1

Good question. It's all a chemical reaction in my brain. The first time I remember having this reaction toward another person is when I was in the second grade (though I am certain it happened before then, I just don't remember).
I loved a boy named Michael. It was Not a choice.

Answer 2

With all due respect that is probably the worst analogy I have ever read. If we follow that logic how do you know soda is really your beverage of choice. Why not chose to consume the choice beverage of our friend the automobile, which is gasoline. How do you know you won't like it better until you try it. Silly isn't it. Why? Because, you and I both know that the human body was not designed to consume gas. And if we chose to go against our better judgment we know that the consequences of our action will be detrimental to our bodies.

Answer 3

it is not a choice, it is nature...

The way I see it is this. The Bible, New Testament in particular, metions love something like 2,000 times. I don´t presume to know God better than others, but this I know. At the end of the day, I am following that prescription to love and love and love rather than some obscure passage about homosexuality.

“I might be one small voice for change in outlook so that I might be one to stand up and affirm that gays and lesbians are equal and beloved in the eyes of God, that they are our children and God’s children, and that we err in treating them like modern-day lepers, in placing them outside the circle of God’s love.” Desmond Tutu

“For me, there doesn’t seem to be a difference at all with how I felt when people were being clobbered for something about which they could do nothing- their race. I can’t believe that the Jesus Christ I worship would be on the side of those who persecute an already persecuted minority. That we should be tearing ourselves apart on this issue of human sexuality when the world faces such devastating problems as AIDS, poverty, and conflict seems as it we are fiddling whilst our Rome is burning.” Desmond Tutu

Answer 4

I'm an atheist and have many gay friends, so there is no stigma in my world to any sexual preference.
but- (to further your point) it was quite obvious to me even in 5th grade that I was completely and totally attracted to girls (and now women) and not at all to men (or boys). There has never been an option to 'choose' or a decision to make.

I expect that most homosexuals feel the same way. Although, I also know quite a number of bisexuals who really are attracted to both men and women.

Answer 5

It's not a choice. I didn't choose to be hetero, I was born that way.

Considering how incredibly difficult the world is on homosexuals, why would someone "choose" that?

They don't. They're born that way.

Wake up, and stop being ignorant. As long as there have been human beings some have been homosexual. Your opinion will not change that.

Answer 6

I never tried it, just know I liked chicks from the get go... as far as being born heterosexual... that's someone who knows absolutely NOTHING about being gay. What kind of a moron would CHOOSE to make themselves into a minority and subject themselves to people like the aforementioned _________.

I think its funny how there are heterosexuals who think they know what they're talking about when they say that homosexuals choose- its doubtful any of them even understand the concept.

Answer 7

Nobody chooses to be gay or straight (as some would try to claim when speaking on behalf of others). We only "choose" to be to the extent that it's a natural desire. Much in the same way that people can't really choose who they fall in love with. (a bad analogy, I know, but you get the idea).

Answer 8

I didn't chose to be heterosexual it was always there. Even as a child I loved boys...period. As I got older curiousity did take over as well as experimentation but nothing compares to the touch of a man.

Answer 9

Your example is not applicable. For normal human decisions, learning about both before deciding on one or the other would be the correct thing to do. However, deciding to be homo or hetero is not a normal human decision in the same sense at all. Hetero is the natural and normal state of being. We don't have to decide to be hetero because nearly all of us are naturally that. The only decision is to be something other than normal. We don't choose to be hetero because that is the way we naturally are. You could argue that homos don't choose to be what they are because that was their natural way of being. I don't buy that argument but it has logical basis for debate purposes.

Answer 10

It's not necessarily that people choose the focus of their sexual desire. But God is powerful, and when you have a relationship with him, he GIVES you a choice. No desire is beyond God's ability to change. Not all heterosexual desires are healthy, or godly, so this applies to heterosexuals too. We all have to go through growth in our relationship with God, and in that process He changes our desires to ones that are godly and healthy.