Is homosexuality a choice or is it genetic?

[palerider]

Well Black labs have a pathetic lifespan. Every person I know who has one older than about 8 has a deaf/blind one (and fairly often a tumour)

The average life span for black labs on average is 10 to 12 years and as a breed, they are prone to eye problems. Inbreeding isn't the source of the problem. And the argument wasn't made that inbreeding is necessarily good, the argument was made that all inbreeding isn't bad necessarily bad.

 

[dahermit]

back on track

I am going to jump in here because this thread has gotten off track.
To the question: "Is homosexuality a choice or is it genetic", I am going to speak from my own experience.
From my own experience, I am not attracted sexually to other males. I find their bodies to have no sexual attraction for me whatsoever. It occurs to me that homosexuality for me cannot be a choice...to be a choice, I would have to be sexually aroused by both male and female and choose the male.
According to the psychology, normal and abnormal, psychiatry that I studied eight hours and day for two months, and the on the job training I received for two months in a mental hospital, there is a name for persons who are attracted to the same sex but do not act upon that desire: Latent Homosexuals. Now if you Conservatives wish to go on saying that homosexuality is a choice, considering what it reveals about you, go right ahead.

 

[jb_1430]

According to the psychology, normal and abnormal, psychiatry that I studied eight hours and day for two months, and the on the job training I received for two months in a mental hospital, there is a name for persons who are attracted to the same sex but do not act upon that desire: Latent Homosexuals.

Aaaaand do you also think it is some genetic characteristic that prevents them from acting upon that desire??? Or did they simply make a choice?

 

[vyo476]

Aaaaand do you also think it is some genetic characteristic that prevents them from acting upon that desire??? Or did they simply make a choice?

They do make a choice not to act on it. Mostly its out of fear of the social stigma that still surrounds homosexuality.

Don't confuse homosexuality with homosexual behavior. We choose how to behave. We don't choose how to prefer to behave.

 

[Coyote]

Aaaaand do you also think it is some genetic characteristic that prevents them from acting upon that desire??? Or did they simply make a choice?

Would you choose celibacy?

 

[top gun]

Your continued obsession with homosexuality is typical of the average conservative Republican...

One of the things I found most humerus is the statements about anal sex being so deadly homosexual or "heterosexual".

If that's true nobody told the Greeks. Greeks must be dropping like flies. Probably not a Greek in the world over the age of 50.

Because for about "forever" Greeks have used anal sex as a form of birth control. Hence the saying... Doin' it Greek style.

 

[palerider]

One of the things I found most humerus is the statements about anal sex being so deadly homosexual or "heterosexual".

If that's true nobody told the Greeks. Greeks must be dropping like flies. Probably not a Greek in the world over the age of 50.

Because for about "forever" Greeks have used anal sex as a form of birth control. Hence the saying... Doin' it Greek style.

So you are arguing that the introduction of fecal matter into the circulatory system does not tax the immune system? Is that your position?

 

[jb_1430]

Would you choose celibacy?

Most latent homosexuals probably continue screwing their wife or girlfriend.

 

[jb_1430]

Well, not to disagree with our resident expert on homosexuality, but I think that is how you define homosexuality.

Homosexuality can refer to both attraction or sexual behavior between people of the same sex, or to a sexual orientation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality#_note-apahelp

They do make a choice not to act on it. Mostly its out of fear of the social stigma that still surrounds homosexuality.

Don't confuse homosexuality with homosexual behavior. We choose how to behave. We don't choose how to prefer to behave.

 

[vyo476]

Well, not to disagree with our resident expert on homosexuality, but I think that is how you define homosexuality.

Perhaps I should refine my statement. There is a difference between homosexual behavior and homosexual orientation. One may have a homosexual orientation and yet not engage in homosexual behavior; is this person, then, not a homosexual?

 

[jb_1430]

Perhaps I should refine my statement. There is a difference between homosexual behavior and homosexual orientation. One may have a homosexual orientation and yet not engage in homosexual behavior; is this person, then, not a homosexual?

Perhaps then it wasnt I who was confused.

 

[vyo476]

Perhaps then it wasnt I who was confused.

Nice dodge.

 

[jb_1430]

Nice dodge.

"DODGE"???? LOLOL! no, just really couldnt give a shiit how the word is defined. That is, until some smart ass tries to characterize my question as a product of my confusion.

 

[numinus]

Perhaps I should refine my statement. There is a difference between homosexual behavior and homosexual orientation. One may have a homosexual orientation and yet not engage in homosexual behavior; is this person, then, not a homosexual?

WTF!

A person who does not engage in homosexual acts is NOT a homosexual for the same reason that a person who wishes to bash your skull in is not a murderer.

 

[jb_1430]

Lets ask Segep. When he was married to his wife and having children was he a homosexual? When he switched, did he make a choice, or did his genetics change? Or is he a bi-sexual. Maybe everyone is bisexual until they make a choice.