[10.7] (Not) Born This Gay

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[Aranel1200]

i think until puberty, your pretty much asexual, you only have 'crushes' on the opposite sex when you are little because that's what everyone around you is doing/saying, and then when you DO go through puberty, that's when all the sexual feelings and thoughts start molding, you might come out straight or gay, its a natural processes and both sexual orientations are equal and they both have the potential of being a beautiful thing. That's just what i think :P

[iamkol123456]

please can you do a blogtv with Alec when he comes to Chicago! :)

[robww89]

its all nature. i've known i was 'different' since i was about 6, i didn't sexualise it then obviously but being gay is what i summed up as 'different' ... nurture may play a part for some people but i know that we are born with a certain predisposition. nurture simply determines how freely you come to accept it and develop. Its like being born with brown hair or blonde... you might choose to dye it but you're still naturally one or the other.

[Alex7STV]

@McGarvinStudios Sorry about my choice on words. After re-reading my comment, I see why you responded the way you did. Everyone has to discover what they are - straight, bi or gay. No one can choose it. What I meant by my previous comment is that bi-sexuals can choose to engage with someone with either the same or opposite sex. If you are bi and choose to engage with someone of the same sex, you’re still bi, not gay (or engage with opposite sex, you’re still bi, not straight).

[Alex6STV]

@McGarvinStudios Sorry about my choice on words. After re-reading my comment, I see why you responded the way you did. Everyone has to discover what they are - straight, bi or gay. No one can choose it. What I meant by my previous comment is that bi-sexuals can choose to engage with someone with either the same or opposite sex. If you are bi and choose to engage with someone of the same sex, you’re still bi, not gay (or engage with opposite sex, you’re still bi, not straight).

[McGarvinStudios]

@Alex7STV I firmly disagree with you about gay being a choice for bisexuals. I have been bisexual all my life, predominantly attracted to females. But in a period of 1.5 years, my sexual orientation swung over to gay. My orientation has a mind of its own and I do not have the capability to manipulate it at my own will. That is not to say that I am ashamed of being gay, however. I didn't choose to be bisexual. I didn't choose to be gay. The only thing I did choose was to accept it.

[Nathernell]

I agree with you some born that way and others not that way

[avafrav]

@enjoi946 i mean i learned about this in a textbook in a class i took, but i'm sure wikipedia has a more than sufficient summary.

[enjoi946]

@avafrav Well you've obviously done your research! Silly of all these people forgetting that wikipedia is a reliable source with answers too all of life's mysteries! Hoobastank!

[Zingerific]

I think a lot of the confusion comes from people mistaking "nurture" for "choice," which isn't accurate. To say that nurture plays a part is not to say that anyone chose anything. One of the leading hypotheses is that prenatal hormone levels play a big role, which is clearly environmental and not genetic.

I really don't like the emphasis on "it's not a choice;" if you're desperate to prove you didn't choose being gay, it must mean that you are ashamed and think it's wrong. Nonsense.

[GOLDRUSHESKIMO]

I've liked boys my whole life, and I didn't think it wasn't normal for me to when I was in grade two running around kissing other boys, in fact I didn't even know what being gay was or meant. I think puberty would be the realizing stage. But no, I don't believe we're asexual.

[blaiblou]

@jackskellingtonsora *continuing*..Some living equality satisfying lives with either of the sexes. The social pressure is undeniably grand. Enough to push many people into keeping their 'undesirable' side out of the public census.

I do believe 'nurturing' takes a part in who we are, as in our behaviour. Take feminine and masculine gays as a possible example(althought I don't believe nurturing alone is responsible for that either).

And those are part of my thoughts.