Is homosexuality a choice?

Is homosexuality a choice?

  • Nope, not a choice at all.

    Votes: 43 60.6%
  • Yes; I had to choose to be straight, they choose to be gay.

    Votes: 9 12.7%
  • Yes, it's a choice- Although I never chose my own sexual orientation.

    Votes: 9 12.7%
  • Not sure.

    Votes: 10 14.1%

  • Total voters
    71
Quote from Rearden Metal:

I'm not so sure about that. If a dog starts humping your leg, do you really have to <i>choose</i> not to hump it back?

I think it's more like an instictive complete lack of desire for sexual activity with anyone or anything that isn't an attractive female human.

Maybe.

But then I put to you this simple question.

What sexual activities are not instinctive, and why?
 
Quote from ARealGannTrader:

It probable meant they had to pee, or were frightened.

Women carry erect nipples when sexually aroused.......or if they get cold.

you pee or get erect when frightened?

you don't know shit about physiology.

why does your little peepee shrivel up in cold water. or when you are frightened?
no one gets erect when they have to pee you idiot.

unless your a fag :D
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

Yes, I think that sums it up. Anyone who has to consciously choose is probably resisting an opposing urge.

Probably is a good word.

Show that u are a thinker.

Think on this.

Anything not autonomic to body is voluntary. We choose, consciously or unconsciously.

Shao Lin carries this ability to choose to an amazing level.

Sex in any of its forms is not autonomic, it is not necessary to survival of the individual.

Necessary to survival is defined as any activity that if not carried out by the organism will result in cessation of biological life functions.
 
Quote from killthesunshine:

you pee or get erect when frightened?

you don't know shit about physiology.

why does your little peepee shrivel up in cold water. or when you are frightened?
no one gets erect when they have to pee you idiot.

unless your a fag :D

U have not studied anatomy or the physiology of anatomy, and I will not do it for u.

Do some homework and then come back to class.
 
Quote from ByLoSellHi:

I will worry about homosexuality as some sort of national threat when I start reading headlines stating 'Straight Man Forcibly Raped In The Ass At ATM Machine' in the papers.

I haven't heard much about these crimes of passion outside of prison walls.

p.s. In full disclosure, homosexuality used to carry a designation of mental illness under the DSM (I think DSM-III) but it was removed due to political pressure from gays. Maybe that issue is still a fair one.

Also, I do NOT want to see public schools stepping into this quagmire and saying that homosexuality IS or IS NOT normal. Leave it alone, public schools. I do not want 'My Two Mommies' or 'My Two Daddies' read to my children. Let me decide how they are exposed to this issue, and let me exercise parental governance over matters such as this that are the proper province of parents alone.

K BiLo,

U did ur homework.

Few people are aware today of the designation of homosexuality in the DSM III. I was gonna save that :0)

U sound like a libertarian. I completely agree that what u do is your business at the end of the day, and I do NOT want my tax dollars spent on pushing, or rejecting a SOCIAL position.
 
Quote from ARealGannTrader:

For precisely the same reason that people here in the united states commit crimes that carry a capital punishment, and are proven competent by the medical community.

They choose to do what they WANT to do regardless of the consequences, because they do not fully measure the consequences of discovery, and do not believe they will be caught.

But in the case of homosexuality, no offense is being committed. These people want to live and let live. How am I, or anyone I care for, going to be effected, given the fact that it is not a choice, by their life style. What I mean is, if my son is homosexual then he is and will not be effected by heterosexual behaviors and vise versa.

If I am going to open the door to preventing these people from living their lives than I should open the door for others who think of single parents as a deviant to a good society and therefore should be stopped.
 
Quote from ARealGannTrader:

Probably is a good word.

Show that u are a thinker.

Think on this.

Anything not autonomic to body is voluntary. We choose, consciously or unconsciously.

Shao Lin carries this ability to choose to an amazing level.

Sex in any of its forms is not autonomic, it is not necessary to survival of the individual.

Necessary to survival is defined as any activity that if not carried out by the organism will result in cessation of biological life functions.
I think sexual orientation is, for all intents and purposes, autonomic. When I am in the proximity of a woman I find very attractive for whatever reason, and particularly when there is prolonged eye contact, I have a physiological response (respiratory and heart rate, etc.). There is nothing voluntary about it. I have no such physiological response in the presence of men.
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

I think sexual orientation is, for all intents and purposes, autonomic. When I am in the proximity of a woman I find very attractive for whatever reason, and particularly when there is prolonged eye contact, I have a physiological response (respiratory and heart rate, etc.). There is nothing voluntary about it. I have no such physiological response in the presence of men.

Pavlov discussed in detail the reason for your physiologic response, Tdog.

You can be conditioned to this based on your early upbringing, and it is better than likely that u were pushed by your parents, society and peers towards a heterosexual response. Which u chose.

Another example of choice is term "attractive", which varies very widely on a global scale.
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:

...Evolution has nothing to do with the possibility of, likelihood of, or actual existence of God...
Correct. It merely suggests that god is not necessary. Enter Occam with his trusty razor.
 
Quote from sameeh55:

But in the case of homosexuality, no offense is being committed. These people want to live and let live. How am I, or anyone I care for, going to be effected, given the fact that it is not a choice, by their life style. What I mean is, if my son is homosexual then he is and will not be effected by heterosexual behaviors and vise versa.

If I am going to open the door to preventing these people from living their lives than I should open the door for others who think of single parents as a deviant to a good society and therefore should be stopped.

What is offensive and what is not is based on the societal collective, and changes over time.

In Iran, homosexuality is extremely offensive, at this time,and this is taught from a very early age.

Conversely sex with a female without secondary sex characteristics has become offensive only recently, because we live longer now.

Ever heard the term, old enough to bleed, old enough to breed?
 
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