Evil_Sire wrote:BLACKS DO NOT RELATE TO GAYS.
If you walked up to a gay, and said "bender", nothing would happen.
If you walked up to a black person, and said "nigga", you would get the fuck knocked out of you.
Obviously, people have a choice to be gay, and a choice to be straight, all this about "you are born gay" is bullshit, because you choose when you are older. I wasn't born thinking "women are fit", otherwise if I had a fit woman doctor i'd have gormed at her.
So cut this "you are born gay" and "you don't choose to be gay", because it isn't true.
The body of scientific evidence simply doesn't support you.
The 'choice' issue is a sensitive matter. Kinsey stated that the majority of individuals are actually bisexual and live out their lives as heterosexuals due to societal pressure, and statistics suggest that many individuals that consider themselves heterosexual do to societal pressures are actually not. however, just like you middle school counselor told you, pretending to be something you are not is unhealthy. Gay individuals can and do enter heterosexual marriages, but very seldom with good consequences. There is a known phenomena of homosexuals in conservative 'pretending' (consciously or even sub-consciously) to be heterosexual, which virtually always results in depression or other emotional disorders, as well as relationship failure. A present example of this is certain republican senators.
From what science (both physical sciences like neurology and biology, and less physical fields like psychology and sociology) has determined, there is a physical cause (or at least significant influence) for sexual orientation; going against this cause has notable negative psychological effects.
I will also address SkyPanda's questions
SkyPanda wrote:Question one: i'm not pretending this is even close to fact, but i've heard, and read, of persons who would otherwise be heterosexual, being exposed to homosexuality in some way at a young age or over a long period of time and 'becoming' (for lack of a better word) homosexual. Is this possible, or an urban myth?
For some time this was a leading theory for the cause of homosexuality. However, modern research (particularly research indicating a physical cause) seems to refute this. The phenomena still appears present, so it may be exposure to homosexuality causing homosexuality to appear more 'normal' to the victim, resulting in the homosexual 'side' of them (which Kinsey theorized exists in everyone) surfacing despite societal pressures.
SjyPanda wrote:Question two: What is the difference between being attracted to men, and being very attracted to say, short 35-year-old women with blonde hair wearing red hats? I'm not proposing that there is no difference, i'm asking what the difference is, as there obviously is one.
I would submit that there is no difference. However, the difference as society generally sees it is that being attracted to women is 'normal,' whereas being attracted to men is not (or even sinful).
