Your born to either like or dislike peanut-butter, why cant you be born to like the same sex?
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cause its just gross and wrooooooooonnnnnnggggg!!!!!!!!!!!
9877
Homosexuality is not a choice, decided on a spcific day. Genetics is related to being homosexual.\nA double-blind study of male brains post-autopsy showed a difference in the hypothalamus in gay males.\n\nLike the previous answer-only questions involved is, if you are  going to be yourself and accept it.
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My first reaction to this would be to ask whether or not straight people give the same sex a chance first.  I decided I liked women when I hit puberty and did not give the same sex a chance, and I doubt most other straight men did either.  (I will not speak for women.)\n\nThe fact is that sexual attraction tends to come naturally.  It is not an acquired taste like a good scotch.  Recent studies based on the work of JT Manning and other researchers have examined the relationship between prenatal testosterone and homosexuality and found a very strong positive correlation.  \n\nGay men on average seem to have higher prenatal testosterone levels than straight men on average.  (You read that correctly, the masculine hormone makes guys feminine.)  This is ceratinly not the only factor in predicting homosexuality, but it does show a predisposition to homosexuality long before someone can give either sex a chance.\n\nMore importantly, attempts to convert somone to heterosexuality have not shown much promise.  In the cases that are claimed as successes, there are numerous criticisms.  e.g The person was not gay in the first place or was bisexual.\n\nThat being said, many researchers are unwilling to study adolescent homosexuals, because they do not consider someone fully homosexual until their post-adolescnet years.  It appears that enough people change their mind about sexual orientation in adolescence to make many studies on non post-adolescent populations less than conclusive.
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We are not born with a sexual orientation,it is a learned behavior.Although I am sure homosexuals claim they can not help it,and "I was born this way" that is simply a superficial answer designed to avoid dealing with the actual root cause of their choice.I am also certain there may be a variety of reasons from plain old lust,to traumatic experiences with forced homosexual occurrence,self esteem,whatever.The point is that homosexuality is against creationism and those that adhere to God's law or position on the matter.In addition it goes against theories of evolution ,because you can not have evolution, without,procreation.My point being even apart from religious convictions,homosexuality is obviously abnormal behavior and violates creationism and evolution on the same point,inability to procreate or continue the species,whether created by God or evolved from single cell protozoan.(I personally think that evolution is the biggest bunch of nonsense ever purported by man on himself)It appears to be more evidence of mans ability to use his freedom of choice to satisfy whatever whim he or she has,and the general populations moral conviction to support that choice ,even when it is antithetical to our very existence,soley based on growing trend to manifest life as a free for all party,ever extending the boundaries in order to accommodate moral and sociological devaluation.This is the reason man is God's greatest creation and his ugliest,and in the end the most intelligent species on the planet will destroy itself.It is not a liberals movement as conservative judges of the highest courts in history as well as the liberals in all major governments have upheld mans right to defy both his creator and for those that believe the evolutionary theory.In fact it a great argument against evolution because if we are mimicking in our societies the behaviorism's of man since his evolutionary conversion,we never would have made it this far.Deprivation,debauchery,and greed would have brought our species to extinction long ago.Irregardless of your beliefs system homosexuality is wrong as it contributes only to the termination of our species.
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God gives us human desires but we are told to keep them in check.  We may have a desire to have multiple partners but we are warned against that.  We may have a desire to get high all the time, but we are warned against that as well.  We may have a desire to be attracted to the same sex.  But we are warned agaisnt acting on those desires.  \n\nSo it doesnt really matter to me whether they were born that way are not, they should not act on those desires.  They may not be able to help how they feel but they can control how they act.
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No one "becomes" gay. Sexual identity is determined by genetics, not personal preference. Being gay does not mean only sleeping with someone of the same sex, but loving them. Think about the way a man loves a woman, and why he doesn't love his best friend the same way. Being gay is the same thing, only with different genders. A person who is gay goes through puberty and realizes they have an attraction for the same sex, yet many gays state that they sensed they were "different" since they were children as young as five. Sometimes, people change their preference, but it is due to brain chemistry and not outside forces (this is why praying and porn do not work to change sexual identity.)\nMany straight men and women are afraid watching a gay film or hanging around gays will make them gay, but it's not true. Otherwise, a gay could become straight by hanging around straight people!
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Someone who like the same sex that they are. That's it. Television (like Will & Grace, which I hate) make it the end all, be all of what makes a person. It's not.  You happen to like your own sex.  Big deal. That shouldn't define your whole existance, like I know people that it does.
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It really is simple. People are born with their sexual orientation encoded due to hormonal or genetic influences in the womb (see twins study, finger length study, hypothalamus study... all determined in utero).\n\nSexual orientation blooms during the pubescent years as hormones rage and bodies change. Suddenly girls aren't icky to boys anymore and vice versa. Same with gay teens, they suddenly become aware of desires that they weren't before, although most gay people I've met were aware of their orientation long before but never found the words to describe it.\n\nThe recognition of sexual desire and orientation is just part of growing up.
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I do not think that being gay is a choice. I think that one is born to sexually be whatever they will be. Have you ever seen them gay dudes that have more feminine traits then most women do? There is no way that anyone can pretend that.I just think that you are born what you are. And why would anyone "choose" to be gay? It isnt a lifestyle that is easily embraced by the majority of the population. You are discriminated against and there are people that redicule your choice.The person you choose as a partner, in more places then not, cannot be covered under your insurance.
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There are some break through research that homophobes would like to keep under wraps.  It,s looking like homosexuality is more in genetics and brain chemistry.  People can't really turn gay, or at least not for the right reasons.  You can't choose who you are attracted to.
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I do get offended, however, I'm sorry to say this, but the way you worded your question could be considered slightly homophobic also... "harrass you for what you are". I mean... personally for me it's a preference... i'm no different than you or anyone else. ... I'll put it another way... We're all the same. Some of us like apple juice, other like orange... we're all the same, but just have different preferences... I hope this makes sense... it's just how I percieved your question.
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It may be that conditioning may have a very small part of a person being gay but it would be a very small percentage of gay people that are effected in this way. However, I do think that the majority of gay people are born with this disposition.\n\n'God' doews not make nature perfect. for instance, I am sure that most of you have heard of a condition called hermaphroditism (or the more politically correct term these days is 'intersex') where a person is born with the fully formed genatalia of BOTH sexes. The subject, apart from their genitalia, is physically and mentally sound in every other way.\n\nSometimes, these children are operated on at birth if the doctors decide (guess) that the baby appears to have a female or male inclination and the genitals are modified accordingly. In many cases though, a modified 'girl' grows up with feelings for other women and modified 'boys' grow up feeling something for other men. It seems in these cases, the doctors have made the wrong decision and the psychological makeup of the child was in fact the opposite to the physical modification they performed on the child. So even though, for instance, a child may be brought up as a girl with girls toys etc, the 'nature' side of the brain kicks in at puberty (if not before) and overrides the 'nurture' side.\n\nNow, if nature can produce a visible, physical example of developmental confusion on the outside of the human body, who is to say that there are not processes at work of developmental confusion going on inside the unseen brain of a person ... where there may not be an obvious physical example of gender disorientation externally but internally their brain does not dictate in the way that their external body would suggest to the rest of society.\n\nThere is very strong evidence that sexuality is largely determined by development in the womb. Perhaps, while 'intersex' is firm external physical proof of developmental issues, we ought to consider that perhaps the developmental differences in gay people are more subtle and obviously invisible to the naked eye due to the brain being internal - but that does not mean that the differences are not there.\n\nHomosexuality has been around since the beginning of time and if you research gay history in cultures across the world, the present prejudices seem to stem with the spread of the three major monotheistic religons and it is this prejudice that is ingrained into the psyche of people today. But like racism, for instance, perhaps this prejudice towards gay people will diminish as society recognises that alternative sexuality is actually just a normal part of nature's rich diversity.
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Haha, I know the answer to this one.  Too many poeple say they are when they aren't nowadays.  I thought I was until I realized tht you can like someone of the same sex without being lesbian/gay/bi.  If you feel like you want to have sex with a person of the same gender, then you may be bisexual and if you look at more than one person (of your gender) like that, then it's even more likely.  Picture yourself with as many guys and girls as you can and if you're comfortable with it, then maybe you are.  However, these things CAN change or you may think you are now and you could end up COMPLETELY straight or even gay/lesbian.
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I love peanut butter, so I feel the goat licking part to be excessive... but I do like the central theme of having food licked off of body parts - could we substitute you for the goat, and something else for the feet... and suddenly I'm having a better feeling about using the peanut butter in this exercise...\n\nWhat was the question again?\n\nI'm old enough to know that this stuff rarely happens, even though I might think about it a lot, and also old enough to get arrested for answering this question, if you are not of the age of majority... (and more than the combined ages of the two other respondents).
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Before stating "it can't have been in you ever since you were born" in your question, you may want to check out some scientific studies on the matter.\n\nMy first source shows that homosexuality for males has been linked to the Xq28 in males; second source is on a genetic link of the X chromosome to a gay person's mother; third source is on gene variations on the X chromosome; fourth source states that it "confirms that there is a strong genetic basis for sexual orientation, and that for some gay men, genes on the X chromosome are involved," and the last source is on a link between brain structure and homosexuality.
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I think you are born Gay or Straight to varying degrees, due to hormones and genes within you, when asked the question by my son What's a queer dad? I tried to explain by giving men and women a rating out of ten, a totally camp, openly gay man being 0 a bigoted, Neanderthal of a man being a 10 and the same for women 0 a very butch manly female 10 very girlie, wearing pink female. (please excuse the stereotype's but it was the best I could come up with at the time)\nI then told him that I felt that I was a 6 on the man scale as I feel I have some female tendencies but am not attracted to men, his mother was also a 6 on the female scale as she wasn't into girls but liked football and some things that Men primarily like to do.\nI then explained that some people are different and are lower on the scale this means that they are attracted more to people of there own sex having more hormones from the opposite sex, something to do with how you develop in the womb, as we all start out female at first.\nHe seemed to understand this, and as he his now 19 and has total respect for any Gay person that he meets, in fact having gay friends counted among his many mates, I like to think I did an OK job with regard explaining it.
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You can repress your natural urges, but this could cause problems psychologically.\n\nPeople are born gay or straight.  You just have to accept the way you were born.