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Originally Posted by Dave_the_quack
You're welcome to your opinion Cerek, but I have to disagree on your thoughts that sexuality is a learned behaviour. I certainly don't choose my sexuality, but I do choose not to let others dictate how I should live my life by what is inherently right or wrong in their eyes.
I also disagree when you say that sexual desires and impulses can be controlled by adults - unless by the term 'control' you mean whether or not you act on them. Having said that, I'm still not sure where you're trying to go with this comment. Is is that homosexuals choose to be gay and don't have to be because there is another option? Seeing as how I have absolutely no attraction to females in the slightest that option for me could only be celibacy, and to me that just simply isn't an option. I think most people would agree you cannot control those of whom you have a sexual and emotional attraction towards. One doesn't choose to fall in love, it just happens. If it's forced it's not love.
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Depends on what he means by learned behavior really. Most of it I think, in this straight/gay orientation argument is the result of conditioning. We get to work conditioning ourselves in the years leading up to puberty. If everyone was gay as we grow up, and it was accepted as the norm, chances are we would be too. And we would miraculously be as attracted to the same sex as we are to the opposite right now.