Parental Question: Let's Try and Keep This 100% Mature Please

[The 24th Letter]

Re: Parental Question: Let's Try and Keep This 100% Mature Please

How many people in this thread chose their sexual preference?

I did.

How many were taught that guy/girl go together?

I was, from a early age.

[jmood88]

Re: Parental Question: Let's Try and Keep This 100% Mature Please

I did.



I was, from a early age.

I guess there's a first time for anything. So how did you make that choice?

[DC]

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You are implying that living circumstances impact whether or not someone is straight/gay. Do you believe that being around all female family (who actually act like females) leads to a greater chance of being gay?

Maybe becoming gay can be a combination of influence/genetics.

Agree with everything you said. I do believe living arrangements matter though

[CFav]

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I'd probably be like Dr. Bob Kelso from Scrubs.

[DC]

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i wouldnt allow it i would make him change his sexulaity...on the other hand if i had a girl i might be ok with it..but if i had a boy no it wouldnt fly in my house im agianst that.

[KG]

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How many were taught that guy/girl go together?

Most people, including the majority of our parents. Little things like going to a wedding, exchanging v-day cards/candy when u were little (do they still do this?) & thats not even mentioning if you believe in some type of religion ( i know...).

[mercalnd]

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I guess there's a first time for anything. So how did you make that choice?

If I understand correctly, he originally looked at the pros and cons of each and chose to focus on women. In other words he could have just as easily chosen to be attracted to men, but he didn't. At least that's how I think the "sexual orientation is a choice" argument works. Or is it that we aren't attracted to anyone at all until we make a conscious decision to be? I just don't know.

[Flyboy]

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I wouldn't have a problem with it, and I wouldn't feel like I failed in any way.

Co-sign.

[Blzer]

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If he's happy then I'm happy. Fortunately I don't have to worry about this though since he's not.

... Happy?

[Blzer]

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How many people in this thread chose their sexual preference?

I didn't choose whether I liked pepperoni or not, but the thing is, here, I don't know if people regret their preferences. For the record, I despise pepperoni with a passion. I'm pretty sure that I'm not ever saying "I don't want to not like pepperoni. I want to like it." Not for the sake of conforming, but for the sake of wanting to like it. So, learning what you like and don't like isn't necessarily a biological thing that you're born with... you choose to like what you like, and you can lie to other people about what you like, but you can't lie to yourself. You can't tell yourself that you really do like something when you don't, it just doesn't work.

So, if being gay means that you like to like someone of the same sex, then I don't think that it's biological. The only way I can see it being biological is if you have instance where people are trying to say, "I don't want to like men anymore... I want to like women." That means it's something that they were born with, but their internal desires say otherwise. And again, I'm not talking about this scenario when they only want to like women to be "normal", but because they actually want to like women instead of men. As in, they seem to find women attractive, but they are only aroused by men.

I've never seen anybody like that. Again, like the ******ation example, people are born with it and, as I've seen, they don't want what they have. They want to be physically and mentally capable of performing things that people their age should be. The same doesn't seem to apply for people that are homosexual. They don't seem that they're deprived of anything, and they have what they choose to like.



It's a shaky post overall and to some doesn't really feel like I went anywhere with it, but if it made sense, there's actual substance within those three paragraphs.

[mercalnd]

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I didn't choose whether I liked pepperoni or not, but the thing is, here, I don't know if people regret their preferences. For the record, I despise pepperoni with a passion. I'm pretty sure that I'm not ever saying "I don't want to not like pepperoni. I want to like it." Not for the sake of conforming, but for the sake of wanting to like it. So, learning what you like and don't like isn't necessarily a biological thing that you're born with... you choose to like what you like, and you can lie to other people about what you like, but you can't lie to yourself. You can't tell yourself that you really do like something when you don't, it just doesn't work.

So, if being gay means that you like to like someone of the same sex, then I don't think that it's biological. The only way I can see it being biological is if you have instance where people are trying to say, "I don't want to like men anymore... I want to like women." That means it's something that they were born with, but their internal desires say otherwise. And again, I'm not talking about this scenario when they only want to like women to be "normal", but because they actually want to like women instead of men. As in, they seem to find women attractive, but they are only aroused by men.

I've never seen anybody like that. Again, like the ******ation example, people are born with it and, as I've seen, they don't want what they have. They want to be physically and mentally capable of performing things that people their age should be. The same doesn't seem to apply for people that are homosexual. They don't seem that they're deprived of anything, and they have what they choose to like.

It's a shaky post overall and to some doesn't really feel like I went anywhere with it, but if it made sense, there's actual substance within those three paragraphs.

I think you could have summed it up by saying if they're not unhappy that they're gay then it's a choice otherwise they would regret being this way. I can see what you mean, though that's not how I see it but your post does make sense. Ironically, I could actually use a lot of the things you mentioned to make the exact opposite argument.

[ballerzinc]

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Most people, including the majority of our parents. Little things like going to a wedding, exchanging v-day cards/candy when u were little (do they still do this?) & thats not even mentioning if you believe in some type of religion ( i know...).

I was taught guy and girl go together but I was also taught that people were gay. When I learned about sex, I knew gay people existed and what it meant. I didn't make a conscience choice one day and was like I like girls today. It was just in me. Just like a preference for liking blondes or brunettes.

[The 24th Letter]

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I guess there's a first time for anything. So how did you make that choice?

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pretty much sums it up. I havent read this thread all the way through so im sure you have some theory you can type a paragraph about or have already typed a paragraph about...but I believe we were all given free will to make a choice. i made mine....theres really nothing else to say about it, like Pared said, im not interested in a back and forth.

[RAZRr1275]

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How many people in this thread chose their sexual preference?

I did.

How many were taught that guy/girl go together?

I was.

[ballerzinc]

Re: Parental Question: Let's Try and Keep This 100% Mature Please

Just a question for those who chose, would have been just as easy for you to choose being gay? Can you also choose which girls you are attracted to?