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Originally Posted by Rico
Same sex attraction is not a choice, Bro. E. Can you seriously say that anyone would choose to be attracted to the same sex, given what homosexuals have to go through while growing up? How about heterosexual attraction? Is that a choice too?
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To be fair, liberal though I am, I would say that homosexuality is
sometimes a choice, and
sometimes genetic.
Though I don't know that "choice" is the word that I would really use. I think sometimes sexuality can be influenced, by childhood experiences, abuse, etc. (And I am not talking about just abuse by a member of the same sex, but I have heard of girls, when badly abused by men, who have become lesbians)
But I think that if we acknowledge that there are sometimes physical defects in regard to sexual organs (hermaphrodites and such) that we must admit that there are physical defects in regards to hormones and other brain chemistry.
I think the more you delve into it, the more questions that arise (rather than answers). What physiologically in the body causes physical attraction? What influences our own feelings of gender and sexual identity?
We live in a complicated world, and I just don't believe that there are easy answers.
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