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You didn’t choose that, or did you?

comedy4all

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I will admit this up front that I am posting this just to stir up some pudding. Bear with me though I have a cogent point to make.

Their is a big debate over whether being homosexual is something that you are born into or if it is something that you choose.
I have no way of knowing if being gay is a choice or not as I am not gay. Although being homosexual IS a choice. Let me explain.
Homosexuality is an action. Let’s take a hypothetical gay guy; this man loves the sight of the male form, it gets him sexually aroused. At this point he is not a homosexual; he is for lack of a better word gay. Once this man chooses to engage in consensual sex with another man than at that point he has become a homosexual. The man had to choose to commit the act of homosexuality. When a man is raped by another man you cannot call the man that was raped a homosexual because he did not voluntarily engage in the homosexual act.

So to sum up; you can be as gay as Liberace, but you must choose to be a homosexual.
 
I will admit this up front that I am posting this just to stir up some pudding. Bear with me though I have a cogent point to make.

Their is a big debate over whether being homosexual is something that you are born into or if it is something that you choose.
I have no way of knowing if being gay is a choice or not as I am not gay. Although being homosexual IS a choice. Let me explain.
Homosexuality is an action. Let’s take a hypothetical gay guy; this man loves the sight of the male form, it gets him sexually aroused. At this point he is not a homosexual; he is for lack of a better word gay. Once this man chooses to engage in consensual sex with another man than at that point he has become a homosexual. The man had to choose to commit the act of homosexuality. When a man is raped by another man you cannot call the man that was raped a homosexual because he did not voluntarily engage in the homosexual act.

So to sum up; you can be as gay as Liberace, but you must choose to be a homosexual.

And so....?
 
Is that supposed to make it ok to ban homosexual marriage or activity?
 
I am posting this just to stir up some pudding. .

You people and your colorful euphemisms.

Flog the dog..... Bash the Bishop....

Now it's "Stir up some pudding"

I like that.
 
Just my two cents on the subject.

Well, thank you for the stunning revelation that having sex is a choice, I guess. I'm not sure why you felt it necessary to point it out for homosexuals when this applies equally to heterosexuals.
 
Is that supposed to make it ok to ban homosexual marriage or activity?
I said nothing about marriage. But if you want I will explain my feelings on that.




I don’t care who gets married, gay or not it has no effect on me.
 
You people and your colorful euphemisms.

Flog the dog..... Bash the Bishop....

Now it's "Stir up some pudding"

I like that.
I thought it was “flog the bishop”
And I never herd the dog one
 
Well, thank you for the stunning revelation that having sex is a choice, I guess. I'm not sure why you felt it necessary to point it out for homosexuals when this applies equally to heterosexuals.
Yes it does apply equally to heterosexuals.
This is an exercise in semantics.
And I am always up to some antics.
 
I will admit this up front that I am posting this just to stir up some pudding. Bear with me though I have a cogent point to make.

Their is a big debate over whether being homosexual is something that you are born into or if it is something that you choose.
I have no way of knowing if being gay is a choice or not as I am not gay. Although being homosexual IS a choice. Let me explain.
Homosexuality is an action. Let’s take a hypothetical gay guy; this man loves the sight of the male form, it gets him sexually aroused. At this point he is not a homosexual; he is for lack of a better word gay. Once this man chooses to engage in consensual sex with another man than at that point he has become a homosexual. The man had to choose to commit the act of homosexuality. When a man is raped by another man you cannot call the man that was raped a homosexual because he did not voluntarily engage in the homosexual act.

So to sum up; you can be as gay as Liberace, but you must choose to be a homosexual.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

Being a homosexual, lesbian, bi, straight, or whatever is an orientation, it is who you are attracted to that is the catalyst for determining your sexuality. Now sexual acts are actions, they can happen regardless of your orientation, now most consensual sex acts line up with your orientation, but there are also people who have consensual sex that don't line up with their orientation, such as gay for pay porn actors, prostitutes etc.
 
I will admit this up front that I am posting this just to stir up some pudding. Bear with me though I have a cogent point to make.

Their is a big debate over whether being homosexual is something that you are born into or if it is something that you choose.
I have no way of knowing if being gay is a choice or not as I am not gay. Although being homosexual IS a choice. Let me explain.
Homosexuality is an action. Let’s take a hypothetical gay guy; this man loves the sight of the male form, it gets him sexually aroused. At this point he is not a homosexual; he is for lack of a better word gay. Once this man chooses to engage in consensual sex with another man than at that point he has become a homosexual. The man had to choose to commit the act of homosexuality. When a man is raped by another man you cannot call the man that was raped a homosexual because he did not voluntarily engage in the homosexual act.

So to sum up; you can be as gay as Liberace, but you must choose to be a homosexual.

i disagree with your line of reasoning.

i discovered that i was heterosexual somewhere around four years old when i fell for a girl at the school. i didn't engage in sexual intercourse until age 19. i can assure you that i was very heterosexual before age 19. a sex act does not determine hetero or homosexuality.
 
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

Being a homosexual, lesbian, bi, straight, or whatever is an orientation, it is who you are attracted to that is the catalyst for determining your sexuality. Now sexual acts are actions, they can happen regardless of your orientation, now most consensual sex acts line up with your orientation, but there are also people who have consensual sex that don't line up with their orientation, such as gay for pay porn actors, prostitutes etc.
I would agree with you that gay is an attraction that helps define your sexuality. Although homosexuality is defined by the choice to engage in homosexual sex.
A choice.
A man that gets paid to have homosexual sex in a porn movie is a homosexual. He may not be gay but he is homosexual because he voluntarily engaged in homosexual sex.
 
I would agree with you that gay is an attraction that helps define your sexuality. Although homosexuality is defined by the choice to engage in homosexual sex.
A choice.
A man that gets paid to have homosexual sex in a porn movie is a homosexual. He may not be gay but he is homosexual because he voluntarily engaged in homosexual sex.

No, homosexuality and heterosexuality is defined by your orientation, period.

You may choose to engage in heterosexual or homosexual acts regardless of your orientation.
 
i disagree with your line of reasoning.

i discovered that i was heterosexual somewhere around four years old when i fell for a girl at the school. i didn't engage in sexual intercourse until age 19. i can assure you that i was very heterosexual before age 19. a sex act does not determine hetero or homosexuality.
This is about words. A thing that I don’t think that many people pay attention to the meaning of.
I was involuntarily celibate until age 21. Until that point I was not hetero or homosexual, I was not having sex. Unless you consider masturbation sex than I may have been considered homosexual because I was providing sexual gratification to a male.
 
This is about words. A thing that I don’t think that many people pay attention to the meaning of.
I was involuntarily celibate until age 21. Until that point I was not hetero or homosexual, I was not having sex. Unless you consider masturbation sex than I may have been considered homosexual because I was providing sexual gratification to a male.

were you fantasizing about women or men?
 
No, homosexuality and heterosexuality is defined by your orientation, period.

You may choose to engage in heterosexual or homosexual acts regardless of your orientation.
You are using the words heterosexual and homosexual as it has been redefined by popular culture. The words have original definitions that you are not considering.
I do think that these words have been drafted to be used as they were not intended to be used. You use the word homosexual to describe the desire to have homosexual sex because you lack a better word, as I use the word gay (which means happy) for the same purpose.
 
You are using the words heterosexual and homosexual as it has been redefined by popular culture. The words have original definitions that you are not considering.
I do think that these words have been drafted to be used as they were not intended to be used. You use the word homosexual to describe the desire to have homosexual sex because you lack a better word, as I use the word gay (which means happy) for the same purpose.

No, I am using the words how they are intended. You are trying to add some different meaning to the words.
 
A women’s underwear ad in one hand, myself in the other.

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Heterosexual.

Heterosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between persons of opposite sex or gender in the gender binary. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectionate, physical or romantic attractions to persons of the opposite sex"; it also refers to "an individual’s sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a community of others who share them".[1][2] The term is usually applied to humans, but it is also observed in all mammals.
 
No, I am using the words how they are intended. You are trying to add some different meaning to the words.
What I am doing is stripping the added meanings that those words have picked up over the years.
Tell me this; does the word (gay) originally mean homosexual?
 
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The problem is that over the year’s words tend to pick up definitions that are more easily tacked onto those words than creating a word that will stand for that definition. Also with sites like Wikipedia definitions can be changed at will. Webster’s now adds popular new words and definitions to their dictionary.
It is not the word that has changed it is the culture that defines that word.
 
The problem is that over the year’s words tend to pick up definitions that are more easily tacked onto those words than creating a word that will stand for that definition. Also with sites like Wikipedia definitions can be changed at will. Webster’s now adds popular new words and definitions to their dictionary.
It is not the word that has changed it is the culture that defines that word.

the history of slang terms for heterosexuality or homosexuality has no relevance. what is relevant is that heterosexuality or homosexuality need not be consummated in order to exist.
 
What I am doing is stripping the added meanings that those words have picked up over the years.
Tell me this; does the word (gay) originally mean homosexual?

What you are doing is pretending to be profound, which you aren't. Orientation is how you determine your sexuality, not your actions, period.
 
the history of slang terms for heterosexuality or homosexuality has no relevance. what is relevant is that heterosexuality or homosexuality need not be consummated in order to exist.
I agree with that.
 
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