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What makes a person gay?

Discussion in 'Coming Out Advice' started by Jack2009, Feb 23, 2009.

  1. tm74

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    Yup - found it very interesting - and as I watched it very early in the process of accepting myself - it very much helped me accept that I am 'hard wired' to be what I am.
     
  2. Sarah

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    i think its more along the lines of ur "spirit" or soul or ur "inner being". ur personality! something u cant analyze by looking at the physical structure. its something unseen but there. u kno what i mean?
     
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    Don't know,Don't care!
     
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    It's definitely hard-wired, whether it's genetic or other factors, but how strongly you repress it is determined by your environment and surrounding culture.
    THERE IS NO WAY YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
    Stupid ex-gay conversion people! THEY'LL NEVER HAVE ME!
    *throws sharpened medical journal*
     
  5. Nameless Hope

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    Well how about that. Both fingers are even. Interesting...

    And my dad was (is?) gay, and I have an older brother (who's straight.) There's got to be more than "just" social influences or 'choice,' going on here.
     
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    TRUE THAT!
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    I think that it's decided while you're still in the womb. I know for me and all the gay friends that I have that it was not a choice.
     
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    What makes a person like sport?
    What makes you like this song, but not that one?
    It's just there. You accept it, and don't make a big deal of it=P

    Which is what I think sexuality is=]
    It just is. Don't try and understand it^_^
    Just accept how you feel=]
     
  9. tm74

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    That's certainly the case for me - including the years of suppression (thanks to my upbringing and childhood environment/culture!) - even when I was "straight" - I was far more interested in shirtless guys, but just put those thoughts to one side and got on with being the "me" I'd been brought up and trained to be.
     
  10. Crackajack

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    I'm Watching John Barrow man and its look interesting.