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Originally posted by promethius9594:
i agree with yorick in thinking its a choice, but not in the sense that a choice can be made today. in fact, most of the choice is not even made by the person, but rather by their peers and their elders.
it is a choice which, in effect, has been made already, and can't be so easily undone as to, say, switch underwear brands. it just isnt that kind of choice.
its a developemental choice, it becomes deeply engrained in the persons developed character. thus, in order to reverse such a 'choice' would require the aide of a psychologist to treat. again, this hinges on whether or not homosexuality is developemental or genetic, which has not yet been determined.
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I doubt it's due to my elders. Most of my family is notoriously homophobic, and my parents may not be but they used to be in the past.
Add onto that the town I grew up in, where rarely did anyone mention they were gay (And they were scoffed at if they did, or so I heard from some friends). So peers didn't decide it either.
The first gay person I ever met was when I was 15 (A guy I was crushing on despite the fact that I didn't want to), and I didn't even know he was gay until he came out to all of his friends (A year later).
If it's such a developmental choice, then why exactly did it develop in me when I tried to develop straight crushes? Why did it develop in a highly homophobic environment? How did it develop when none of my peers, until my mid-teens (And that was just one person, for about a year and a half) and then my early twenties, were gay?
[ 06-02-2004, 07:34 PM: Message edited by: Jerr Conner ]