Coming Out (pt. 2)

Hey everyone!

Now, for my arguments about what I think sexuality truly is. Thank you for those who made comments in the last video, because you helped set up a lot of subjects I wanted to discuss. ^_^

Please forgive my mane; it shall be tamed next week. Ciao, lovelies.

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[FTLNewsFeed]

I got mentioned :D

I hear what you're saying, but I believe that attractiveness refers to the beauty of a person (or what we determine as beautiful), not their male or femaleness. I can sort of understand the fluidity of sexuality and especially bisexuals, but I do think there's some hard coding going on. At least to a degree where you don't see lions trying to mate with zebras. The human animal likewise has coding and I think that that plays a large role into the gender we are attracted to.

[Pharyn]

Very true, I think we cannot completely stray from biological influence, considering it's probable sexuality is in part genetic. However, you're talking about aesthetics when gay men can determine if women are beautiful. That is not the same as attraction. I think attraction is much more compelling; it is not a purely sensual attraction, I think people see a likeness in even opposite sexes and are driven to know that person.

[SisterUnity]

Well I look at it this way. I love chocolate ice c ream. I don't like vanilla. Rum Raisin, = yum; coffee? hate it! I am not choosing to judge each based on flavor. I am responding to what arrises naturally. That understood; I believe there is/ought to be room in society for each of us to love who and what we love naturally, as we find it occurs naturally.

[bbs5ekata]

and.. I was intending to refer to the non-control/domination purposes of homosexuality in nature.

My own note again: Pleasure is routinely passed over in science, it seems to me, as have no relevance to efficacy. I believe it has as much relevance as any social behavior. Perhaps our Puritan-founded aculturation kept our perception from exploring this way previously (see Foucault's "History of Sexuality" volumes).

[bbs5ekata]

Both. Certainly there's the control thing, which, interestingly is used by "straight" humans through out history as well as animals.. some say the Judeo/Xtain prohibitions on gay sex came from a military ban onthat behavior by conquering troops chosen by Jewish society after the exodus from Babylon.

[bbs5ekata]

I've heard that as well, re: hormones.. The question then becoems, what is the genesis of the hrmonal patterns, could that be geneticaly inherited? It could be a series of traits causing other thraits, tracable back to soemthing that could BE geneticly evident. That's just an idea I'm having, nothing I've yet read.

[FTLNewsFeed]

Research does seem to be baring some of that out. That gay men have female-like brains (same sized hemispheres, good at the same sorts of tests) and vice versa. But, as you know, not everything is determined by the brain. The hormones produced during fetal development and puberty have a tremendous influence on the development of gender within an individual and while attraction would need to be brain specific, gender seems to be in part hormone level specific.

[Pharyn]

Also, when you talk of male and female "brains," you're implying gender and sex (in terms of sexuality) are identical. How can you explain feminine bisexual men? Or "straight" acting gay men? I'm assuming you believe in bisexuality, so if you like, shed your views on that.

[FTLNewsFeed]

Interesting... are you talking about sex used as a form of power and control in certain animal groups or are there other ideas being put forward on uses for sex (sexuality) in the animal kingdom?

[bbs5ekata]

Actually the thought in the scientific community these days is that sexuality is about more than procreation exclusively.

[FTLNewsFeed]

I mean there's a reason why women of a species are attracted to the men of their species and vice versa. But we know that homosexuality exists in the animal kingdom, as well as our own so something must be going on. That's why I personally give credence to the thought that gay men are born with "female" brains and vice versa. There's a lot of interesting research that bears this out. Sexuality after all is just to perpetuate the species so some hard coding must be needed to do that.