Homosexuality

[Alex]

Born that way or is it a choice?

 

[Masqueraine]

I don't know if you're born gay, but I think once you recognize your sexuality it's hard to change.

 

[Ctrl.Alt.Geak]

Born that way for sure. Its scientifically proven. I dont want to start a fight but it does tend to bother me when people think its a choice :(

 

[Belinda]

I was born this way. I didn't choose to be homosexual.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

I've never met a kid who was gay until after the age of like, 10. Not too sure about that one though

inb4flamewar, I think it's mainly choice and what happened in your life. I'm not exactly sure how someone is born gay, since well you know you weren't born that way, although I'm not about to say it's a disease. So, choice.

EDIT: Okay I'm not too sure anymore, since apparently sexual attraction begins in the brain, so I guess someone could be born gay. Look the matter confuses me even more so than religion, so don't go bashing me.

 

[NurseBarbra]

Born that way. Sexual orientation is mentally hardwired into your brain at birth, as such, and the reason people don't identify as gay and such until after 10 - 12 years of age is the simple reason that the hormones that fuel sexual drive aren't in the body until puberty, which doesn't happen till about 10 or 11.

 

[Oryx]

I've never met a kid who was gay until after the age of like, 10. Not too sure about that one though

inb4flamewar, I think it's mainly choice and what happened in your life. I'm not exactly sure how someone is born gay, since well you know you weren't born that way, although I'm not about to say it's a disease. So, choice.

Well tbh, I've never met a kid who was straight until after the age of 10 either. Young children don't know what their sexuality is. It's default assumed straight because that's what the majority of people are, but kids aren't romantically attracted to other people in the same way that people who have begun puberty are.

So yeah, it's in your DNA in my opinion. I don't have studies and stuff to throw at people that disagree, but I personally think it's a dense to think that people who go through a lot of pain, bullying, abuse, and heartache from being gay made that choice themselves.

 

[AtomicoExploda]

In my opinion it's a mental disorder at birth, but I can't be sure about that since I never really do research on it. Either way, being homosexual is not right, there's definitely something wrong there.

 

[Pokemon Trainer Touko]

Born that way. You can't really choose to be homosexual xD;;

 

[Shiny]

Atomico, really? Like really?

Being gay is not a choice whatsoever.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Well being gay means you have a sexual preference other than the natural one, so in sense yes, it is a disease. Yeah, there is something wrong with the idea of being gay.

Doesn't mean it's wrong, right or whatever hell the third option is. (wait a minute, that doesn't make sense...)

And yeah people don't have a choice anymore, which is kinda unfair if you ask me. People accept Autism, but they won't accept gays. What the hell?

 

[AtomicoExploda]

Atomico, really? Like really?

Being gay is not a choice whatsoever.

Yes, really. If you don't like what I say, then do note that's it's just my opinion.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Well it's not really a opinion, it's kinda like saying all Autistics choose to be that way, which is utter *******.

 

[~Ryukaa]

You get born with it. There's no way anybody would be able to choose their sexuality. There's nothing wrong with being gay, either. They're normal people, just have different tastes, is all.

 

[JimJams]

I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way! ;P

Well, actually I'm a pan-romantic demisexual who happens to be in a homosexual relationship.

I think the best way to describe my sexual orientation is just not giving much of a damn..XD

 

[Margot]

For people saying you don't know until later than like age 10 that you're gay.....well duh. most boys and girls won't go near each other because of cooties until then anyway, so how is one to know that early?

and for those who think it's a choice: explain to me when you chose to be straight. people are born with their sexual orientation but obviously you're not sure of what you want until the hormones start kickin' in.

 

[Charizard★]

I believe you're born that way, seeing has kids don't really know their sexuality, like some other users stated.

 

[professor plum]

In my opinion it's a mental disorder at birth, but I can't be sure about that since I never really do research on it. Either way, being homosexual is not right, there's definitely something wrong there.

Excuse me, but what year is this again?
This isn't an opinion - this is just bigotry.

"Born this way"? A phrase that has been monopolized and profited from.
Sickening, really. (And not in a good way)

I was born gay. There were instances of it in my childhood that were uninfluenced by anything - I had no idea what 'gay' was until I was around 10 or 11.
When I was in kindergarten, during the game of 'house' (where you had the husband, wife, kids, pets, whatever and you all lived together and whatever)..I had a husband. When my teachers called me out on this (I went to a private school), I was ever so confused.

It most certainly is not a disorder.

 

[Legobricks]

I couldn't call having any sexuality a choice, but nor that everyone is born that way.
Rather, I suppose that our (generally early) life experiences are what decides the matter.

Well it's not really a opinion, it's kinda like saying all Autistics choose to be that way, which is utter *******.

Please don't let anger cloud your better judgement; AtomicoExploda did not say anything about choices.

 

[Esper]

I believe that the majority of people have genetically predetermined sexual orientations (whatever they may be), but I don't discount the possibility that a handful of the population can have some level of choice in the matter.