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is sexuality a choice?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by stocking, Apr 25, 2015.

  1. Aster

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    I don't think it's a choice. After all, you don't choose who you're attracted to, you just end up liking them.
     
  2. ccdd

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    No, it's not, and it doesn't matter either way.
     
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    i feel like i did.not sure if i actually did but i feel like it was a choice i made at some point.
     
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    It is definitely not a choice. No one chooses who they're attracted to. Whoever says otherwise is completely ignorant. And yes it is a choice to act on your attractions, but it's the right choice if you ask me. Why repress it? It's about doing what makes you happy, not trying to please others.
     
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    Hehe, but you might go hell if you act on those attractions. Wouldn't want others to go to hell for acting on theirs either would we? Gotta reinforce what we were raised to believe in eh?
     
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    is this a trick question .
     
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    My sexuality isn't a choice but who I date is.

    I never choose to be bi. I am attracted to both. However I do choose to only date men (casual sex is a different story) because even though I am attracted to both, I am not attracted to both evenly. I choose not to date women because I know that I prefer men to the point that I couldn't be happy (long term) with a female.
     
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    NOPE.

    It's not a choice, and it never will be.
     
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    Sounds like a weird question coming from a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Well, actually it sounds like a weird question in general. How could anything regarding sexuality/attraction be a choice?? If it were then Taylor Swift would die of hunger because she'd never have her freaking heart broken and all of that. Hungry but happy, that is.
     
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    10/10 on this troll effort. All it took to mobilize the whole EC community lol
     
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    Totally a choice! Just like how I chose my hair color, eye color, skin color, hight, weight, the parents I was born to and even my birth sex! Yep! Choices all! :rolle:
     
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    No. If it was, I'm sure all of the LGBT people that are oppressed in society would gladly turn straight.
     
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    Hmmm...you've got me curious, swag. Talk to us about this choice you made.

    So you were originally only attracted to women, and not in the least to men; and then one day you said, "y'know, I want to be attracted to men too, 'cause bisexuals are *awesome*"...and then you...what? What exactly did you do to gain that attraction that you didn't have before? Or did it work the other way around? Or what?

    Do you think you could now choose to only be attracted to women again? Or once the djinn is out of the bottle, you can't put it back? Suppose heads meant you would never again be attracted to women (no sexual interest in them whatsoever), and tails meant you would never again be attracted to men (absolutely no sexual interest). Do you think you could flip a coin, and then simply choose to follow the result?
     
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    No, It is not a choice. It is genetically and/or Environmentally developed.
     
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    i mean kind of. not really.
    i think i said i wanted to try something and i did. if i didn't i probably wouldn't be as gay. i do believe in free will to an extent.
     
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    Ask any man his wildest sexual fantasy and he's unlikely to give you a response that he's proud of, if he responds at all. That fantasy didn't enter his head by conscious choice because it seemed nice and convenient. It's just there. Sexuality is so complex and often dark and in no way a choice. Our sexual acts are choices, but that's a different discussion altogether.
     
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    You were born that way babe :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:ride:
     
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    No, but you have to learn to love yourself and be happy. I'm grateful to live in a country where I can mostly be me.
     
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    i mean i like women as well but id go more towards tomboy or dominatrix types. i don't get turned on by anything feminine.
     
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    And I have always been partial to a swishier brand of man. See? Why would we choose these specifics? Why even choose anything when we could choose it all? :wink: