H-omosexuality is a Choice

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#1 LittleHands134
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I'm not saying that h-omosexuality is right or wrong, because I honestly don't care at all. To explain the point I'm trying to make though, I'm going to use a food metaphor.

A person has an option to eat either carrots or lettuce for his meal. He chooses carrots because he prefers the taste of them, but he could have eaten lettuce if he was forced to, even if he disliked the taste of lettuce.

Another person has the same option, but he chooses lettuce because he's deathly allergic to carrots. He did not have a choose in the matter because eating the carrots would have physically harmed him.

Now for how this metaphor applies to h-omosexuality. Technically any h-omosexual could have sexual relations with a member of the opposite sex, he might strongly dislike the idea of it, but he would be at no physical risk by doing so. That doesn't mean that he should be looking for women, but that technically that option isn't impossible.

H-omosexuality isn't a mandatory choice, but a strong sexual preference.

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#2 zakkro
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That's one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. O_o
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Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Also there are so many flaws to your logic. I COULD shoot my entire family and eat their bodies. Do I want to? Nooo...
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you had me going there for a second

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#5 LittleHands134
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[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Also there are so many flaws to your logic. I COULD shoot my entire family and eat their bodies. Do I want to? Nooo...

Yes, I easily could. I wouldn't be attracted to him, but I could just as easily do it.
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#6 garaa2007
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That's one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. O_ozakkro
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#7 FlyingArmbar
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I'm sure you know more about this than the biologists who tell us that it is not choice, or the gay people who say that they made no decision.

I'm sure they choose homosexuality. Who wouldn't want to be rediculed, hated, and treated unfairly.

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#8 Teenaged
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Its not a preference, its an urge that cannot be directed by logic.

The term "preference" in sexuality is used many times as a figurative way to describe. It is not a conscious preference though.

The same thing could be applied to heterosexuality. Homosexuality is an option for them, even though they have a dislike towards it. But then we would debate on which of the two is the moral/right/natural one and yeah we know that story...

Conclusion: Its NOT a choice. The choice is whether you act upon it or not and I dont see why the right choice in that aspect is to deny ones homosexuality.

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#9 AtomicBaconBits
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That's one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. O_ozakkro
Couldn't have said it better.

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[QUOTE="LittleHands134"][QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Also there are so many flaws to your logic. I COULD shoot my entire family and eat their bodies. Do I want to? Nooo...

Yes, I easily could. I wouldn't be attracted to him, but I could just as easily do it.

Easy to say that now. Unless you're a little bisexual/bicurious.
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#11 DrSponge
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[QUOTE="zakkro"]That's one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. O_oAtomicBaconBits
Couldn't have said it better. TC just fails.Homosexuality is genetic,is it that hard to understand? o_0

Actually the cause is yet to be determined (as far as I'm aware) I personally lean more to chemical imbalances in the brain. One things for sure is that it isn't a choice.
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I don't think my sexual organs would get the proper stimulation necessary to have sex with another man.
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#13 kozzy1234
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I'll trust scientists who have studied this topic for years, over some random person from gamespot.

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#14 Sway-
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I never chose to be straight.
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#15 AtomicBaconBits
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[QUOTE="AtomicBaconBits"][QUOTE="zakkro"]That's one of the worst analogies I've ever seen. O_oDrSponge
Couldn't have said it better. TC just fails.Homosexuality is genetic,is it that hard to understand? o_0

Actually the cause is yet to be determined (as far as I'm aware) I personally lean more to chemical imbalances in the brain. One things for sure is that it isn't a choice.

Yeah,that's what I was trying to say.

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#16 CleanPlayer
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No, just no. Our sexuality preference isn't a choice, it's something we can't choose or change.
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#17 AtomicBaconBits
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I never chose to be straight.Sway-
Bingo.This is where TC's poor analogy already fails.
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#18 Brainkiller05
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I'll trust scientists who have studied this topic for years, over some random person from gamespot.

kozzy1234
I'm with this guy, it's probably not as black and white as "well they can choose not to"
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#19 DrSponge
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[QUOTE="DrSponge"][QUOTE="AtomicBaconBits"]Couldn't have said it better. TC just fails.Homosexuality is genetic,is it that hard to understand? o_0AtomicBaconBits

Actually the cause is yet to be determined (as far as I'm aware) I personally lean more to chemical imbalances in the brain. One things for sure is that it isn't a choice.

Yeah,that's what I was trying to say.

Well that's not necessarily genetics.
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#21 Gallion-Beast
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Your sexuality is defined by who you want to have sex with, not who you force yourself to have sex with. Homosexual activity is a choice, homosexuality is not.
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#22 CleanPlayer
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[QUOTE="Sway-"]I never chose to be straight.AtomicBaconBits
Bingo.This is where TC's poor analogy already fails.

Exactly, we don't choose our sexual orientation. We're born with it.
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#23 Candy-Star
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lololol Obviously you're straight thats why you're so misinformed. Let me ask, can you ever be sexually attracted to another man like you were to a woman?
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#24 XD4NTESINF3RNOX
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No, just no. Our sexuality preference isn't a choice, it's something we can't choose or change. CleanPlayer
yes it is i can easily go out with a woman but i prefer men how is that not a choice?
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#25 Darth-Caedus
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Your sexuality is defined by who you want to have sex with, not who you force yourself to have sex with. Homosexual activity is a choice, homosexuality is not.Gallion-Beast
Bingo, this is what I was going to say:P /thread
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#26 AAllxxjjnn
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I knew this thread would be terrible the minute i saw the title. I don't know what made me click on it. That analogy is terrible.
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I knew this thread would be terrible the minute i saw the title. I don't know what made me click on it. That analogy is terrible. AAllxxjjnn

Probably the same reason i clicked on it.... to see the ridicolous reason behind it :P

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#28 deactivated-5a79221380856
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It depends on how you define choice. You didn't accurately make your point that food preferences or merely choice. For all you know, it could be genetics. Given my family, they're all a bunch of alcoholics but me, so if I were to drink alcohol, I would become highly addicted regardless of what I choose to do. What you're confusing here is sexuality and sexual behavior. For example, heterosexuality isn't a choice, but being abstinent is, if that makes sense.
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#29 Funky_Llama
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But you don't choose what food you prefer. /thread
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#30 pygmahia5
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yea, bad analogy. homosexuality is not a choice. u have to be very closed minded to believe that.
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#31 deactivated-5a79221380856
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But you don't choose what food you prefer. /threadFunky_Llama
Absolutely brilliant. Usually, I hate your one line responses, but this was genius.
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#32 zakkro
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But you don't choose what food you prefer. /threadFunky_Llama
Hey, I wanted to do that. /thread There.
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#33 DrSponge
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[QUOTE="Genetic_Code"] What you're confusing here is sexuality and sexual behavior. For example, heterosexuality isn't a choice, but being abstinent is, if that makes sense.

A better way to put it is that you can choose to have sex with someone else, but you don't have to be attracted to them to have sex with them. Attraction=sexual preference.
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#34 CleanPlayer
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[QUOTE="CleanPlayer"]No, just no. Our sexuality preference isn't a choice, it's something we can't choose or change. XD4NTESINF3RNOX
yes it is i can easily go out with a woman but i prefer men how is that not a choice?

Okay, here's my example.You can't change the fact you perfer men, Correct? You've never choose to prefer men, therefore you just do like men. That's the point I'm making, you can choose to have straight sex with a woman, but that isn't your sexuality. You don't have a choice for your sexuality, you're born with it !
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The analogy, it does nothing!

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#36 -Sun_Tzu-
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One does not choose to like carrots and dislike lettuce in the same manner that a man does not choose to be sexually atrracted to men and not to women.
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Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? DrSponge

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

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[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Theokhoth

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

Where did you get that from? >_>

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[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Theokhoth

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

That's kinda weird/creepy :|
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[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Theokhoth

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

Bills have to get paid somehow...
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Like you even choose what type food you prefer :?
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[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? Teenaged

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

Where did you get that from? >_>

My sources. . .

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[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? DrSponge

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

That's kinda weird/creepy :|

One reason why I don't watch porn. I could never tell. >_>

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[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

[QUOTE="DrSponge"]Oh dear. I'm guessing you're straight right? Well, could you ever have sex with another man? DrSponge

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

That's kinda weird/creepy :|

Didn't a study show that male gorillas in this one population who had sex with both male and female gorillas were more likely to reproduce than those who only interacted sexually with females? Maybe that has something to do with it...
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#45 BumFluff122
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Everything in life is a choice. However certain choices are brought on by certain genetic traits. You are playing semantics.

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#46 Sajo7
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The analogy, it does nothing!

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#47 DrSponge
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[QUOTE="DrSponge"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

Theokhoth

That's kinda weird/creepy :|

One reason why I don't watch porn. I could never tell. >_>

Meh, mostly in porn none of the people are attracted to each other so I don't see why it makes a difference. Also, cool to see my thread yesterday inspired that blog in your sig :D
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#48 Sajo7
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[QUOTE="DrSponge"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

Theokhoth

That's kinda weird/creepy :|

One reason why I don't watch porn. I could never tell. >_>

I didn't realize gaydar scramblers were so advanced.
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[QUOTE="DrSponge"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

Over half of gay porn stars are straight. >_>

zakkro

That's kinda weird/creepy :|

Didn't a study show that male gorillas in this one population who had sex with both male and female gorillas were more likely to reproduce than those who only interacted sexually with females? Maybe that has something to do with it...

Maybe the gorillas that had sex with both genders were just more horny and so had more chance of successful fertilization >_>