Homosexuality

Started by Alex June 27th, 2011 10:23 PM
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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.

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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.

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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.


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Atomico, really? Like really?

Being gay is not a choice whatsoever.

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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?

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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Well i'm gay and to be honest i don't really know if i was born this was, i know for sure its not a choice but i didn't exactly have the most perfect childhood so you could say the problems back then had something to do with it. but then again i don't really remember most of it so i could've been gay before all of it. i don't know.
To me though i like to think i was born this was as it makes more sense to say its hormones and whatnot that cause me to be attracted to the same sex.

It most certainly is not a disorder.
100% agree there

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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.
Even though it's your so called 'opinion' I certainly don't agree with it. Just keep in mind it's 2011 so wake up and smell the beans we've been around for how long? People like you make this world ridiculous just saying.
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Why would anyone choose to be gay? To go through any suffering, mentally and/or physically? Who would choose this path, especially after seeing and hearing the horror stories? I believe you're either born that way or the other way(s). It's most certainly not a disorder, and it's no one's fault. It's just how things are gonna be. Nothing you can do or say.
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You were born that way. The only thing you have a choice over is if you accept it or not, which is why I think that some people get the misconception that being gay is a choice. I think people who believe being gay is a choice are fools. That's like saying that you can choose who you're attracted to, which is silly. You don't just go into a room, and say "I want to be attracted to that person over there!" and then suddenly you're attracted to them.