Is Sexual Orientation A Choice?

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ I believe that it is a choice. Why would the Lord have a person go against his own word?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Do you know any gay people?

I've worked with a few.

God bless you and them always!!!

Holly

 

[Uncensored2008]

If people could choose their sexuality, everyone would be heterosexual.

No one chooses. We just are.

Yeah, prisons the world around prove that.

You Bolsheviks sure are smart....

 

[DarkLion]

^^^ I believe that it is a choice. Why would the Lord have a person go against his own word?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Maybe the "Lord's Word" is wrong, ever think of that?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ Maybe the Lord's word is right, ever think of that?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[g5000]

I think sexual taste is a lot like culinary taste. You don't "choose" to like or dislike spinach. And there are people who occupy every space on the spinach spectrum, from "I would rather stick needles in my eyes before I eat spinach" to "I would eat it at my in-laws just to be polite" to "I eat it for my health" to "I can't get enough of the stuff".

Just so with sexuality. You have people on that spectrum from "Gay as the day is long" to "I live to hump the opposite sex every waking moment" and all places in between.

Taste is not a choice. You can have straight parents with a gay kid, and you can have parents who love spinach who have a kid who can't stand the stuff.

When did you choose not to be gay? When did you choose not to like spinach?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ If homosexuality is what the Lord intended, why was woman made after man was made? Why not just another man?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[g5000]

^^^ If homosexuality is what the Lord intended, why was woman made after man was made? Why not just another man?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

If the Lord did not want homosexuality, why does he make homosexuals?

And which Lord are we talking about? Which brand?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ The Lord makes people, yes, but how them people live their lives is up to them.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[DarkLion]

^^^ Maybe the Lord's word is right, ever think of that?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Of course, I was raised baptist. I believed it all when I was a kid. But then as my powers of reasoning matured, I rejected it. Even at the age of 14 it sounded like bullshit.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ Oh well. That is your choice.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[DarkLion]

Wrong, I can't force myself to believe. If i could I would. I'd love to think I'd see my loved ones again. But I can't. Logic gets in my way. Reality isn't something you arbitrarily choose to believe in.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ I still believe that it is a choice no matter what people say in order to try and prove otherwise.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[DarkLion]

^^^ I still believe that it is a choice no matter what people say in order to try and prove otherwise.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Well, you can have your own beliefs. But you can't have your own facts.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ I believe that there isn't a fact that the Lord can't over ride.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Dante]

Could you choose to be attracted to someone of the gender opposite of the gender to which you currently feel attracted i.e. if you're straight could you choose to get turned on by someone of the same sex, or if you're gay could you choose to get turned on by someone of the opposite sex?

Discuss.

My opinion is: No. Dudes are gross.

Is Sexual Orientation A Choice? No, but neither it is genetic.

 

[Dante]

I've known to many gay and lesbian people to know that it is not a choice, so there is nothing left for me to discuss.

Anecdotal evidence on such a small scale?

People are not born gay, but neither is it a choice

 

[Dante]

Is Sexual Orientation A Choice?

Can't say.

What I can say is that "gayness" is an unquantifiable behavior trait, rather than an objectively verifiable identity trait like gender and ethnicity.

So says the House/Residential expert on all things Gay @ USMB

 

[Ava]

Could you choose to be attracted to someone of the gender opposite of the gender to which you currently feel attracted i.e. if you're straight could you choose to get turned on by someone of the same sex, or if you're gay could you choose to get turned on by someone of the opposite sex?

Discuss.

My opinion is: No. Dudes are gross.

It doesn't matter if it's a choice or not.

Some people might choose to be homosexual, some people might not.

There are an awful lot of gay men who got married and had kids before they came out of the closet. If it wasn't a choice they shouldn't have been able to get it up for a woman right?

With some, it may be more of a preference than a choice. Bisexuals do exist.

A married acquaintance of mine went home unexpectedly for lunch only to find her hubby in bed with another...man. The last I heard, she was still in therapy. Very tragic to find the person you love and are married to, isn't who you think they are, and in the most hard-to-comprehend and unforgiving circumstances.

 

[MikeK]

Could you choose to be attracted to someone of the gender opposite of the gender to which you currently feel attracted i.e. if you're straight could you choose to get turned on by someone of the same sex, or if you're gay could you choose to get turned on by someone of the opposite sex?

Discuss.

My opinion is: No. Dudes are gross.

Sexual preference is determined by hormones. Homosexual impulses are the result of hormonal imbalance.

(Excerpt)

The hormonal theory of sexuality holds that, just as exposure to certain hormones plays a role in fetal sex differentiation, such exposure also influences the sexual orientation that emerges later in the adult. Prenatal hormones may be seen as the primary determinant of adult sexual orientation, or a co-factor with genes, biological factors and/or environmental and social conditions.

Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[Dante]

Science

you people need to start following science blogs instead of msnbc, fox and tea party bullshit