alex said:Welcome!
I, as a gay man, can tell you that true homosexuality is not a choice. It is something inside a person that cannot be erased by making another choice. Do heterosexuals choose to be straight? No. They are that way simply because they are. I was born gay, I have always been gay, and I will always be gay.
It is interesting that vauge believes it is conditioned. I did not condition my self to be gay no more than someone conditions themself to be straight. One of my first memories as a young boy was being attracted to a man. Do you honestly believe that a 9 year old can condition themself to be gay? Do 9 year olds have this kind of thought process? I was attracted to men before I even knew what gay was. How could I possibly condition myself to be gay then? I honestly believe that I am misunderstanding what you wrote. Could you please elaborate?
january said:Holy Alabama Batman! :doh
Um, no homosexuality is not a mental illness.
That's so our culture isn't? We don't understand something about a persons personality, so we say they're diseased.
rudeboy said:I didn't say that homosexuality was a mental illness or a disease I asked if we should cure it like we cure mental illnesses and depression. I was speaking about depression that we are born with not the kind you can develop as we are talking about homosexuality that people are born with not the kind they can develop.
By developing homosexuality I mean if someone was molested or raped at a young age which can cause them to become homosexual. I believe this can happen I'm not sure if it's been proven..
Kelzie said:If it's not a mental illness or disease, why do we need to cure it?
Pacridge said:We don't. We need to accept people for who they are.
Kelzie said::applaud I'm not going to hold my breath for that one though. :mrgreen: I would advise no one else to either
Kelzie said:If it's not a mental illness or disease, why do we need to cure it?
january said:errrrrr....
I've never met anybody who didn't want to be gay for any other reason than the social persecution.
rudeboy said:For people who didn't want to be gay? People that are depressed don't want to be depressed so they take medication for it what makes this different?
Kelzie said:Depression is a mental illness. Depression is an unnatural state of the mind. Homosexuality is not. It is a difference in people. Kind of like some people have brown hair and some people blond. Or better yet a difference in personalites. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a lot of people in the gay community would not want to take a magic pill that would cure them of their "gayness" (and if there are any homosexuals who disagree, my apologies). My life would be a lot easier if I wasn't so argumentative. Would I take a pill to get rid of it? No. That's who I am. We learn from our differences, not from our sameness.
rudeboy said:Hello,
I'm gay and I don't want to be. I want to get married and have my own children. I generally want to love women but I can't.
rudeboy said:Hello,
I'm gay and I don't want to be. I want to get married and have my own children. I generally want to love women but I can't.
rudeboy said:If depression is unnatural then how come it happens naturally? Bi-polar people are born bi-polar so how is that not natural? It's not natural to social standards. Also I know a whole bunch of homosexuals who would take that pill in a heart beat.
Kelzie said:If you are uncomfortable with the people you are sexually attracted to it sounds like a different problem to me.