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Did you choose your sexual orientation?

Did you choose your sexual orientation?

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middleagedgamer said:
Let's entertain this for a minute.

You say you have evidence to prove that people can, indeed, change their sexual orientation.

However, some people, about half way through their lives, start to develop a previously-absent allergy to peanuts!

Michael Jackson and Sammy Sosa both changed their race.

What evidence do you have to suggest that a change in your sexual orientation is any more controllable than those two types of changes?
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It sounds to me like you have very compelling argument that contrary to popular opinion, skin colour is in fact a choice. How does that make orientation any less of a choice?
 
mikhail said:
My penis choosed my sexual orientation it gets hard to things i like and not to others womens vaginas basically work the same way but with wetness.

This isnt a religious question because it is out of your hands.
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and it might be in yours.:peace
 
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I didn't choose *****, ***** chose me.
 
There's no choice involved. If there was, I would choose to be gay. It sucks having to put up with a woman's bullcrap just because you need to get it wet. Being attracted to guys would lower my stress level, increase my fashion sense, and make the toilet seat a non-issue.

What's the tradeoff? I couldn't get married? Yeah, sign me up for that kind of discrimination.
 
Whether or not it's a choice, I'd like to stay straight thank you very much. Vagina is a beautiful thing!
 
Z3n said:
I hate when people refer to it as a "lifestyle"

People that are gay can have completely different lifestyles from one another. Saying its a lifestyle choice makes it sounds faddish and elective
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There is a "gay lifestyle" so to speak. It goes hand in hand with "gay culture."

The orientation is not a choice, but the culture and lifestyle are choices. In other words, you're born homosexual, but what you do with that is a choice.

That being said, I don't have a problem with whatever a person wants to do in that regard.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Whether or not it's a choice, I'd like to stay straight thank you very much. Vagina is a beautiful thing!
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You and I will "stay straight" whether we want to or not.

But, I must say, this has to be the first time I've read of a vagina being a "beautiful thing." Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
 
Dittohead not! said:
You and I will "stay straight" whether we want to or not.

But, I must say, this has to be the first time I've read of a vagina being a "beautiful thing." Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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LOL i didn't mean vagina in a literal sense, but indeed I DO think vaginas are beautiful if they are properly taken care of and aren't infested with certain diseases.
 
The side question is if it was a choice, was it conscious or subconscious?
 
maquiscat said:
The side question is if it was a choice, was it conscious or subconscious?
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Is drawing breath a conscious or subconscious choice? Arguably, I can choose to draw a breath at my own discretion, but if I am not thinking about it I will draw breath subconsciously anyways.

It is my opinion that every choice can be made conscious by a disciplined mind.
 
Panache said:
Is drawing breath a conscious or subconscious choice? Arguably, I can choose to draw a breath at my own discretion, but if I am not thinking about it I will draw breath subconsciously anyways.

It is my opinion that every choice can be made conscious by a disciplined mind.
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It's neither conscious nor subconscious, but biological.

Did anyone here choose to be left handed or right handed?
 
Dittohead not! said:
It's neither conscious nor subconscious, but biological.

Did anyone here choose to be left handed or right handed?
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I chose to be a left handed fancer, and I chose to write right handed. I also chose to be a right handed guitar player, as do the majority of people who are left handed if every other respect.
 
MsCommonSensiality said:
I've been debating with people on Facebook forums about gay rights for a little while now. I'm all for gay marriage, gay adoption and for them having all the rights that the rest of us get.
People there are constantly citing bible verses and telling me that being homosexual is a choice and wrong. I know it's not a choice, I don't care if it wasa choice, they have the right to make their own decisions.
The point of this thread is for me to get an answer to a question that I've ask several hundred times with silence as a response.
Did you choose your sexual orientation? If so, please explain.
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If you do not "choose" to engage in sex....then you must know of nothing but Rape. I can see why you are confused. Same gender relationships void of sex are known as friendships....SEX defines HOMO(SEX)UALITY. If you cannot HELP but being attracted to the same gender then you have MENTAL ISSUES as the mind controls all aspects of the human body. Its simple, homosexuality is either a free will choice or someone is "mentally challenged". Mental illness has nothing to do with intelligence, as some of the most intelligent people on earth have very severe mental issues, for instance John Nash.....

What? Is the Rapist, Child Molestor, Bi Sexual, or those that practice Beastality.....to be given a pass to marry those they MUST engage in SEX because they simply can't "get off" anyother way? By the standard that the GAY LOBBY is attempting to establish as the NORM...all the above are free to pursue their happiness because THEY JUST CAN'T HELP BUT BEING WHO THEY WERE BORN TO BE.

The simple truth is the FACT that homosexuality is a clear "deviation" from the Norms established by society, as the clear cut NORM ( about 90%) are practicing HETEROSEXUALS....
 
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Walter said:
If you do not "choose" to engage in sex....then you must know of nothing but Rape. I can see why you are confused. Same gender relationships void of sex are known as friendships....SEX defines HOMO(SEX)UALITY. If you cannot HELP but being attracted to the same gender then you have MENTAL ISSUES as the mind controls all aspects of the human body. Its simple, homosexuality is either a free will choice or someone is "mentally challenged". Mental illness has nothing to do with intelligence, as some of the most intelligent people on earth have very severe mental issues, for instance John Nash.....

What? Is the Rapist, Child Molestor, Bi Sexual, or those that practice Beastality.....to be given a pass to marry those they MUST engage in SEX because they simply can't "get off" anyother way? By the standard that the GAY LOBBY is attempting to establish as the NORM...all the above are free to pursue their happiness because THEY JUST CAN'T HELP BUT BEING WHO THEY WERE BORN TO BE.

The simple truth is the FACT that homosexuality is a clear "deviation" from the Norms established by society, as the clear cut NORM ( about 90%) are practicing HETEROSEXUALS....
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If you cannot HELP but prefer to use your left hand, then you have MENTAL ISSUES as the mind controls all aspects of the human body. Its simple, left handedness is either a free will choice or someone is "mentally challenged". Mental illness has nothing to do with intelligence, as some of the most intelligent people on earth have very severe mental issues, for instance John Nash.....

What? Is the Rapist, Child Molestor, Bi Sexual, or those that practice Beastality.....to be given a pass to marry those they MUST engage in SEX because they simply can't "get off" anyother way? By the standard that the LEFT HANDED LOBBY is attempting to establish as the NORM...all the above are free to pursue their happiness because THEY JUST CAN'T HELP BUT BEING WHO THEY WERE BORN TO BE.

The simple truth is the FACT that lefthandedness is a clear "deviation" from the Norms established by society, as the clear cut NORM ( about 90%) are practicing RIGHT HANDED PEOPLE....
 
Walter said:
If you do not "choose" to engage in sex....then you must know of nothing but Rape. I can see why you are confused. Same gender relationships void of sex are known as friendships....SEX defines HOMO(SEX)UALITY. If you cannot HELP but being attracted to the same gender then you have MENTAL ISSUES as the mind controls all aspects of the human body. Its simple, homosexuality is either a free will choice or someone is "mentally challenged". Mental illness has nothing to do with intelligence, as some of the most intelligent people on earth have very severe mental issues, for instance John Nash.....

What? Is the Rapist, Child Molestor, Bi Sexual, or those that practice Beastality.....to be given a pass to marry those they MUST engage in SEX because they simply can't "get off" anyother way? By the standard that the GAY LOBBY is attempting to establish as the NORM...all the above are free to pursue their happiness because THEY JUST CAN'T HELP BUT BEING WHO THEY WERE BORN TO BE.

The simple truth is the FACT that homosexuality is a clear "deviation" from the Norms established by society, as the clear cut NORM ( about 90%) are practicing HETEROSEXUALS....
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Eh, he asked did you choose your sexual orientation, not did you choose who you have had sex with. The answers to both are obvious, no and yes. The rest of your post is a non sequiter.

EDIT: Plus the left handed stuff above, there's a reason we live in societies established by basic human rights with a dash of mob opinion rather than mob rule democracy.
 
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Walter said:
The simple truth is the FACT that homosexuality is a clear "deviation" from the Norms established by society, as the clear cut NORM ( about 90%) are practicing HETEROSEXUALS....
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At one point the NORM was the earth was flat. At one point the NORM was that slavery was alright and good. At one point the NORM was that women were not smart enough to vote. To advocate or believe that the earth was round, that slavery was wrong, or that women should vote meant that you were a deviant, as you deviated from societal norms. Does that mean that the deviant was wrong? In these cases no. In some other cases yes. The argument that a behavior is deviant is simply weak. You need to bring up better evidence.
 
Gipper said:
You had me until the women voting thing. Don't get me started on that.
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Based on that statement then you are most likely a deviant....in that aspect.
 
I am a straight man.

My sexual desires were 'hardwired' into me from the day I was born. That's not to say my desires haven't changed at all, but I believe you are BORN straight,gay or bisexual.
 
No, I did not decide. I discovered what I was. And it was most certainly informed not just by a predisposition, but by the experiences I had growing up.
 
Ambassador said:
I am a straight man.

My sexual desires were 'hardwired' into me from the day I was born. That's not to say my desires haven't changed at all, but I believe you are BORN straight,gay or bisexual.
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Wow. You had sexual desires when you were born? I can't even remember when I was born. Was it awkward going through a vagina? Did it turn you on? Did you make little baby love in the nursery when the adults weren't looking?

Personally I didn't really have any such desires until 1st grade. Maybe I was late bloomer though.
 
Panache said:
Wow. You had sexual desires when you were born? I can't even remember when I was born. Was it awkward going through a vagina? Did it turn you on? Did you make little baby love in the nursery when the adults weren't looking?

Personally I didn't really have any such desires until 1st grade. Maybe I was late bloomer though.
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First grade is about right. Most of us can remember having a different feeling about members of the opposite sex around age 6 or 7. I can see the same thing with my grandsons, around the same age. They're already heterosexual, way before they're old enough to understand what that means.

How can it be a choice? It is made for us by biology, long before we're old enough to understand just what is happening.
 
I chose women personally.
 
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