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

[SlimKibbles]

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

Until someone shows me evidence to the contrary, I will always believe that your sexual preference is genetic - it's how you are wired. I remember being a kid and liking to look at my dad's Playboy's that I found under his bed...and having my mom take them away from me, which caused me to cry. Looking at what was in them just felt natural. I had crushes on girls starting when I was in 2nd grade. I didn't know if that was normal or abnormal back then. Just what I felt. Anyway, that all being said, I wouldn't have a problem with my child "hitting from a different side of the plate" than I do. That's just how they were programmed. I'd feel bad for them though because of how society looks upon it. Hopefully by that point (I don't have kids and am nowhere close to having any) our society will be a little more accepting about it. Tolerance seems to be better than when I was high school age.

[jmood88]

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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.

I wasn't asking for the definition of choice but if you're done then that's cool.

[ballerzinc]

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Until someone shows me evidence to the contrary, I will always believe that your sexual preference is genetic - it's how you are wired. I remember being a kid and liking to look at my dad's Playboy's that I found under his bed...and having my mom take them away from me, which caused me to cry. Looking at what was in them just felt natural. I had crushes on girls starting when I was in 2nd grade. I didn't know if that was normal or abnormal back then. Just what I felt. Anyway, that all being said, I wouldn't have a problem with my child "hitting from a different side of the plate" than I do. That's just how they were programmed. I'd feel bad for them though because of how society looks upon it. Hopefully by that point (I don't have kids and am nowhere close to having any) our society will be a little more accepting about it. Tolerance seems to be better than when I was high school age.

True, I always liked girls, never felt anything different. Since I was even younger than puberty I just knew. It's kind of like those kids you see on Oprah or other shows where there's like two or three year old boys that say they "feel" like girls, it's just wiring to me. I never made a choice, and I don't see how one person would choose and another wouldn't. Also, I've never heard a gay person saying that they chose their lifestyle, why would they with the stigma that is attached. Until I see evidence or hear from gay people that it was a choice why should I believe it's different, I mean they should know better than me.

[Blzer]

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It's not that you're not born with liking one or the other, but I just don't think it's something genetic... like something in your brain, or your DNA structure, or your genes, or whatever. Like I said, I think it's the same as when you're born with liking apple juice and not liking orange juice. They are just tastes... they are all tastes.

[ballerzinc]

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It's not that you're not born with liking one or the other, but I just don't think it's something genetic... like something in your brain, or your DNA structure, or your genes, or whatever. Like I said, I think it's the same as when you're born with liking apple juice and not liking orange juice. They are just tastes... they are all tastes.

If your born with it, how is it not genetic? I don't know alot about genetics, but I'm sure there is a DNA strand or some sort gene or piece of DNA that determines your tastes in food also.

[TheMatrix31]

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Aren't genetics hereditary? What about gay people who have no previous gay people in their family line? Maybe you're born with it, but I don't think it's genetic at all.

And if it IS genetic, then how are some so ridiculously flamboyant and others aren't?

[jmood88]

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Aren't genetics hereditary? What about gay people who have no previous gay people in their family line? Maybe you're born with it, but I don't think it's genetic at all.

And if it IS genetic, then how are some so ridiculously flamboyant and others aren't?

Not everything is hereditary, that's why kids whose parents have blue eyes can have brown eyes or can have blonde hair when their parents are brunettes.

[ballerzinc]

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Aren't genetics hereditary? What about gay people who have no previous gay people in their family line? Maybe you're born with it, but I don't think it's genetic at all.

And if it IS genetic, then how are some so ridiculously flamboyant and others aren't?

It's probably the same reason why some people are more manly and have more testostrone and some women are more girly and some are more manly. There's probably degrees to it.

[Blzer]

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Not everything is hereditary, that's why kids whose parents have blue eyes can have brown eyes or can have blonde hair when their parents are brunettes.

I thought that was hereditary, though. It's that whole dominant/recessive thing. Like, genetically for eyes, you could have BB (brown eyes), Bb (brown eyes), or bb (blue eyes). Say two Bb (brown-eyed) parents had a kid, there's a 25% chance they have a bb (blue-eyed) kid, and so on.

[jmood88]

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I thought that was hereditary, though. It's that whole dominant/recessive thing. Like, genetically for eyes, you could have BB (brown eyes), Bb (brown eyes), or bb (blue eyes). Say two Bb (brown-eyed) parents had a kid, there's a 25% chance they have a bb (blue-eyed) kid, and so on.

Part of it is dominant and recessive genes but kids can also have completely different characteristics than their parents when it comes to stuff like that, at least as far as I remember.

[TheMatrix31]

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So what about bisexuals? Did their genes split in half or something?

[ballerzinc]

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So what about bisexuals? Did their genes split in half or something?

I'm not an expert or anything remotely close, but my guess would be that it is just a different type of DNA where you have the genes/DNA to be attracted to both men and women. Like at some point you were supposed to go one way or the other but the gene mutated or something and both were intact.

[Gibbz]

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Hell no...

As if the guy would need any more reasons to feel like an outcast than what comes with being a homosexual, the father is ashamed of himself? There's no since in it, especially since I don't think homosexuality is a choice.

[ballerzinc]

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I'm not saying culture may have nothing to do with it, either, I'm just saying if your not born with something(which I have no clue what it is) that gives you at least a basis for the thought then I don't think all the influence in the world could make you gay. You can influence me all you want, trust me I'm not gay and I'm not changing. I'm just saying that there is no way it is as simple as a choice that one can make.