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Yes, some homosexuals (both male and female) are changed in sexuality by bad experiences, however, most of them were just like that or changed over time.
No it is not. I do not choose to think Sarah Palin is hot. I loathe conservatism, but I am sexually attracted to her for some reason, thus disproving your theory.
Prove it. If you make a statement, you must back it up. This is the same issue we have every time you debate with me, you make statements, not arguments.
Bullshit. You are spewing radical right wing propaganda. Learn to think little boy, and stop letting conservatives thing for you. People do not choose who they are attracted to.
....There's so much stupid in this one argument. A: I'm leftwing, far left wing. I don't deal with right-wing shit. B: I do think, otherwise I'd be a braindead slug, and last time I checked I'm sitting here, talking, no? C: Explain as to why people change their sexuality.
It's ironic, because it comes down to either A: you trying to be smart and failing, or B: completely missing the point.
I have yet to see you back up any argument, even after being prompted from myself and having this confirmed by Soviet Spy,with any evidence. Not a page. Not a document. You just state your thoughts, without trying to prove it. Then, comes along people such as myself, who does this. If this was your own debate you'd have banned me. That shows a complete lack of both a: a complete lack of maturity, and b: a lack of the will to actually debate. This site, here, is a debate site, and as such, should be used as a debate site, not somewhere for people, such as yourself to state things without backing them up.
To end this, I'm going to do what the internet has taught me to do, "Someday, somewhere, I hope someone knocks some sense into your skull, you're once dense mother fucker."
2: http://web.archive.org/web/20040105072257/http://staffweb.lib.uiowa.edu/ktonella/oob/features/Biology.htm another article, about how it's choice. (Clearly, if the reason these women felt they were lesbians was because they felt emotionally closer to women, then being a lesbian cannot be biological. First of all, since most women feel that way, we would have to say that most women are born lesbians and that can't be true (except perhaps on a theoretical level). Secondly, whether you feel emotionally close to someone does not seem likely to be biological: it seems much more plausible that it has something to do with the emotional and psychological characteristics of the person.) Straight from the website.
3) "Much of the evidence for inheritance of sexual orientation comes from studies of concordance rates in identical (monozygotic) twins raised apart. "Concordance" means sameness with regard to a particular characteristic. Thus, if all the homosexual identical twins in a study have a twin who is also homosexual, the concordance rate is 100%." (http://web.archive.org/web/20031231202804/http://www.geneletter.com/archives/homosexuality.html)
Please, tell me more how about you have give evidence and logic, proving you case.
"There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay, or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors"
In other word,s according to your article, we're both right.
Homosexuality is not a choice you can turn on and off maybe some Lesbians have had bad experiences with men which friends and family say is the reason for them being Gay but if those closest to them have that kind of attitude (looking for a trigger for their Gayness) they were probably Gay all along just trying to hide it, best way to hide it date the opposite sex to the one you are attracted to, if that is what someone is doing its going to end in disaster but it gives others the excuse that being treated bad by so and so triggered their Gayness.
Or maybe they had been convinced by well meaning but stupid people who are afraid of a plague of homosexuals that being Gay is a choice and by dating men they would magically turn straight.
No worries, I think it's all pretty obvious and dont understand when people dont understand that being naturally Gay is no different to being naturally Straight
I'm sure that in some cases it is true. Though not based on physical appearance, or "I can't get a man so I'll just get a woman" thinking. More so there was a bad experience with the opposite gender so a person instead just finds comfort with their own gender. Obviously this isn't all cases, but I can see this being possible.
I don't believe that sexuality is always a choice. I think it's been drilled into society but the persistence of the gay rights movement that it is. I guess to say "its not a choice - usually!" wouldn't sound very convincing. There are events in a persons development that can clearly shape their sexuality. We accept this in people that have other forms of sexual perversasion: sadists, pedophile, necrophiles, zoophiles etc. but not in homosexuality. I find it odd that we've become so polite that we can't even consider that, clearly, there are events that shape all kinds of sexuality.
usually this isn't the case, most heterosexuals/homosexuals are predominantly heterosexual/homosexual and are simply more attracted to the same/opposite gender than vice versa. Homosexuals usually can't be happy with the opposite gender, and the same goes for heterosexuals and the same gender. However I am sure there are exceptions. Sexuality is very complex and no so concrete as we tend to think it is. There is Kinsey's research claiming people can have attractions to both, more often there is a lean one way or the other but the closer in the middle I hypothesize the more the person could be happier with either gender. There is also the Klein scale claiming that not only sexuality is a spectrum but is multivariable and thus can be attracted to the two genders in different ways. So I do think cases like this do happen, however the question has the word usually which is key here, and usually lesbians are predominantly homosexual, it's not really a choice for them at all, they just like their own parts significantly more than the opposite gender is all. Honestly this question is a childish notion.
By definition, woman who are sexually attracted to other women are lesbians. But this debate does bring up a good point and that point is fake "lesbianism."
My older sister is insecure. She has body hair problems, hormonal problems, and it makes her unattractive. However, she is a beautiful person the inside. :) There are days when she tells me basically what if she had a sex change. I don't remember her words exactly but it was simply those words and other words that implied she was thinking she was into girls. While yet, she was drooling over men on soap operas. I am not clear on what sexuality my sister has or if her hormonal problems do contribute to her sexuality ideas BUT it looks like it does.
I don't say this a lot but i haven't problem a lot of evidence so i deserve a down vote. But i hopefully brought up something interesting. :)
