I believe that it is a choise.
There currently hasn't been any scientific proof that it is a gene. Also, I'm straight, but, if I wanted to, I could start dating the girls i know. Some of them are very pretty, indeed. I think guys are more fn to date, but i COULD start dating girls if i really wanted to. Therefore, i believe that it is a choice.
What do you think?
2007-07-05 07:50:44 · 26 answers · asked by ♥ Cute T ♥ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
One of my best friends are lesbian, and she insists on telling me all about it, which is ok.
And I never said that I wanted to date the girls i know, i just said that i COULD if i WANTED to, which i don't.
2007-07-05 08:00:31 · update #1
I'm asking this question about of my own curiousity, I wasn't trying to offend anybody.. sheesh.
2007-07-05 08:06:56 · update #2
To Remi.
Hello? Think of it this way.. men have d*ck and women have a place for it to fit. A man and a woman's bonding produces life. A man and a man, and a woman and a woman, produces nothing but a lot of good feelings.
We are all biologically born straight. The homosexual wander away from that fact. That's why being gay/lezbian, to me, is a choice.
2007-07-05 08:31:19 · update #3
Sexuality is a complex issue. I personally don't think it's either really. I know it's not a choice...the action you take on the urges are (ie you could choose to start dating your female friends...but if you didn't feel sexually attracted to them to begin with you wouldn't choose that now would you?) but the sexual attraction in and of it's self I think is far too complex to be attributed to just one factor. In my opinion it's probably genetic, psychological, and environmental all rolled into one. Three dice and you have to roll the right combo to come out healthy and attracted to the same sex. Roll an altered combo you come out all twisted up inside about the "dirty" things you feel that you cut that section of you off entirely and never ever acknowledge it. Roll a different one and you end up healthy and heterosexual. Just too many variables involved in the development of a human being to say definitely what makes you like what you like. So therefore my personal working theory is that it starts with genetics and is evolved further through environment and psychological cues/triggers/etc. Maybe not a popular theory but somethings are just too complex to have only one cause in my opinion.
2007-07-05 09:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by evilangelfaery919 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well bareback cowboy has it right. (along with others) but science does not showthe human gene has been mapped out and it does not show a gay gene. there was a scientist who claimed that he found the gay gene but less then 10 percent of homosexuals had that gene. matter of fact it shows the opposite the last study said homosexual happens more in the third or fourth child. which would show a nuture issue. here is a good link that goes into some of the theories.
2007-07-05 12:31:11 · answer #2 · answered by rap1361 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(some) Straight people say being gay is a choice. Us, gay people, say it's NOT a choice. Isn't it obvious who actually *knows*?
If you wanted to know if getting a period is a choice, would you ask men or women? It's easy to judge something and form an opinion when you're not experiencing. But is there any chance that people who are not experiencing it know better than us?
2007-07-05 08:10:25 · answer #3 · answered by Mark 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All i know is that i was a lesbian before i even knew what a lesbian was. In kindergarden i chased girls around the playground and tried to kiss them. I have had nothing but crushes on girls from a very young age. I don't think i need science to tell me that i was born gay...
2007-07-05 08:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Renata d 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is no scientific proof that it is NOT a gene(s), either.
A lot of straights like to say it is a choice because they can't experience it. You'll find that gays say it is not a choice. Frankly, I have to go with the experts who know - the gays.
You like what you like. Period. If you are attracted to guys and girls, that makes you bisexual - not gay.
P.S. You sound a little like the smokers I know. "I can quit any time I want to. Really!"
2007-07-05 07:54:06 · answer #5 · answered by Tina Goody-Two-Shoes 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Homosexuality is a physical attraction or desire for the same sex. I'm gay. I COULD start dating girls if I really wanted to [and I have], but that doesn't make me straight.
I never sat myself down and said, "Y'know, I think from now on I'm gonna' be physically attracted to the same sex."
Dating =/= sexuality.
2007-07-05 08:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would homos CHOOSE to be an opressed sexuality living in a homophobic nation?!
Its NOT a choice. It could be a gene, some people could be born gay, but who knows.
All i know is that it isnt a choice.
2007-07-05 07:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by DEPRESSED™ 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I think some persons have a genetic inclination for a same-sex attraction. I think it is a choice, however, to become homosexual. Think about it this way. I have a genetic inclination to be overweight ( reference my dad,uncles,other relatives body types). I choose to be overweight by not exercising enough and not eating properly. Homosexuality is (as is my figure) a behavioral issue not a genetic one.
2007-07-05 08:03:00 · answer #8 · answered by General Leon Pleasant 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't a choice for me for that and I'm gay. What are your credentials? How come you know so much about what it is like to be gay? I define it as an overwhelming desire for sex and attraction to a man...would you be overwhelmingly desirous of a woman. Sure it's all friction. Anybody can rub two body parts together...but it is all about inborn desire.
2007-07-05 07:56:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
"You beleive it is a choice" and many other people out there say the same thing, yet around 30 years ago they determined that there is a recombinate gene that is the cause of being gay, so your "belief" is a load of cr*p. Also, many sociologists today say that most women are bi-sexual, at least in comparison to men.
2007-07-05 08:13:11 · answer #10 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋