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Originally posted by tovenar
Sex is either consensual, or else it is non-consensual---which is known as rape.
If sex is consensual, then the person agrees to it. If the sex is NOT a choice, then it was rape of some sort.
Ergo, any sexual act that a person enters into willingly is a "choice."
Now, if someone claims that they are aroused by certain sights or sensations, that is a separate issue. Although I would point out that even there, the individual can choose the RESPONSE to a stimulus/temptation/what-have-you.
Personally, I don't believe in sexual "orientation." You are as gay, as straight, or as bi as your last sexual encounter---or the one you are trying to hook up right now.
If I go vegan for a while, it wouldn't be genuine, would it? Because I have a carnivore orientation, right?
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
reply to post by tovenar
Being Gay is nothing like being vegan. You are gay or you are not.
Originally posted by Emerald The Paradigm
Of course homosexuality is a choice and nothing else.
People like to say there's a "gay" gene, but there's no scientific proof for that.
It's just an excuse they want to use to endorse their wrong lifestyles.
Typical excuses for supporting homosexuality:
1)It happens in the animal kingdom so it's right
-Nope, just because animals do it doesn't make it right because if that was the case, then we should be hunting others like cannibals and eating them too.
2)I know a friend who knows a friend who has a friend who plays with dolls and likes boys
-You are not a homosexual unless you do something SEXUAL with a guy, you know like rear end sex. Just because a boy plays with dolls doesn't make him gay.
3)There's a gay gene
-Nope there actually isn't, and there's no scientific proof for that.
4)People who don't agree with homosexuality are secret closet homos
-Sorry not going to work here. This is just like the "anti-semitic" card you see people draw when Israel is criticized.
Case Dismissed.
[edit on 25-3-2010 by Emerald The Paradigm]
Originally posted by hippomchippo
I won't comment on your sex = choice thing as sexuality is not sex.
[edit on 25-3-2010 by hippomchippo]
Originally posted by tovenar
Originally posted by hippomchippo
I won't comment on your sex = choice thing as sexuality is not sex.
[edit on 25-3-2010 by hippomchippo]
Not for you, anyway.
Seriously, sex is not a choice? Sexuality in humans is an unbelieveably complex constellation of behaviors--some of them subconscious, but many of them specifically groomed and emphasized by the individual.
Think of a non-sexual trait in humans by way of comparison. Say, obesity. Is obesity a choice? Granted, no one would choose obesity. Yet on the other hand, people are obese as the end result of a whole slew of choices they make, regardless of whether the individual accepts any personal responsibility for their habits.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
homosexuality occurs naturally within the animal kingdom, do you think those animals choose to be gay? Thats all I have to say on the matter for now
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
Can you make the decision to be attracted to people of the same sex?
Why or why not?
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
reply to post by tovenar
They are not gay but as you already said, they are bisexual. By far the only group of people you can say that have a choice.
They do not have a choice, when they fall in love they, they fall in love.
Their options are just well... you know.
[edit on 25-3-2010 by Sinter Klaas]
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
Can you make the decision to be attracted to people of the same sex?
Why or why not?
That question is irrelevant
Can I make the decision to pick up a knife and stab a the neighbourhood cat that's always screaming?
No because i'm not like that
it doesn't mean I have a gene inside of me that doens't like to murder innocent cats
Even if you bring it to a subconscious level, it's still a choice
I choose not to be an evil person, so I don't go around killing cats
Originally posted by Tykonos
I find it amazig that there are people still out there in society that believe being gay is a choice.
Most gay people if not all find the process of coming out to family and friends very painful, even today. If it were simly down to choice most would choose to be straight, it's far easier.
Originally posted by Tykonos
As for being a mutant!!! We are all unique, no two people are the same, so that would make you a mutant too.