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Originally posted by meembo
I realize that we are skewing a bit off topic, but onetime2 I'm curious if any gay person has ever said to you in earnest that they chose their sexual orientation. I'm 39 and I've known single and coupled gay people for 25 years and not one of them have ever said to me that they chose their orientation. That's not conclusive, of course, but I find it hard to believe that I chose my orientation, or that anyone I know has. I think that some bisexual friends of mine went AC/DC for a while in college, etc., and eventually settled with a partner (some same-sex, some not), but that partner was the choice, not the bisexual orientation.
Natural selection would likely minimize the incidence of homosexual orientation in the animal kingdom, but genetics throws curveballs at all creatures, and I think that the behavior simply makes itself extinct in any non-reasoning creature.
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There are countless motivations for people to adopt a certain lifestyle or culture without being "programmed" for it. Certainly the gay culture is more accepting of different personalities and expressions of those personalities than the "straight" culture and this could be one motivation. In different terms, if a gay man (or woman) can "act" straight for days, weeks, years, decades, or lifetimes why does the same not hold true for the reverse?