re: Need an explanation on homosexuality

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quote: All children are born asexual, nobody is gay, straight, bi, anything when they pop out. Exactly! So why can people take it as absolute truth that homosexuals are born gay when that's patently absurd!?!

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Ok sorry I forget concepts have to be broken down to an elementary level here. Obviously babies don't pop out of the womb wanting to get it on...I guess a better way to say it is it's not a choice. I understand that it's hard to admit that if you've grown up hearing homosexuality is wrong your whole life, so I don't expect you or anyone else to change your mind overnight. Luckily the culture is changing though.

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So why can people take it as absolute truth that homosexuals are born gay when that's patently absurd!?!

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People who say they were born gay are just as wrong as people who say they were born straight.

Human sexuality arises as our minds mature through a complex combination of genetics, environment and experience. There are almost certainly many heterosexuals who had the potential to be homosexual given the right circumstances, and many homosexual people who had the potential to be heterosexual. Moreover, sexuality is a spectrum. Very, very few are 100% homosexual or 100% heterosexual, and the vast majority of bisexual individuals still have a preference (meaning they may be 72% attracted to women, 28%% attracted to men).

These nice, neat little boxes we like to place human sexuality in are just simply not rooted in reality. Study after study shows that the overwhelming majority of people have had homosexual AND heterosexual fantasies at some point. Huge portions of those who claim heterosexuality have had homosexual experiences of some kind, and even higher percentages of homosexuals have had heterosexual experiences.

This is also why the comparisons to pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, etc. are nothing more than canards. A low percentage of individuals ever experience fantasies involving children or animals, yet the majority of people regardless of claimed orientation have had homosexual fantasies.