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View Poll Results: Did you choose your sexual orientation?
I chose to be gay 3 2.03%
I did not choose to be gay 30 20.27%
I chose to be lesbian 3 2.03%
I did not choose to be lesbian 4 2.70%
I chose to be bi-sexual 1 0.68%
I did not choose to be bi-sexual 6 4.05%
I chose to be heterosexual 27 18.24%
I did not choose to be heterosexual 78 52.70%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 148. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-09-2012, 03:02 PM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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Missing the point, as usual... point being, there are MORE gay men with the counterclockwise whorl, which implies (without personally knowing the supporting evidence) there are genetic differences between straight & gay men. Doesn't matter what the majority has, it only matters that the percentages are noticeably different between heterosexual vs homosexual men. Got it?
So you think they're on to something by noting the hair whorl?

How about the men with no noticeable hair whorl who are gay?
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:03 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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It seems to me you have pretty good first hand knowledge that your sexual orientation was not a conscious, deliberate choice you made.
Yup, sounds clear to me! Most seem to be in agreement that it's not a choice, while discussing the issue, and yet some people still voted that it was a conscious decision. Are they just in denial (that it's not a choice), or too stubborn to admit the obvious answer?

Maybe a SMALL percentage remember making a decision on the matter, but I imagine the majority of us don't - even those who voted otherwise.
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:03 PM
 
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How about all the gay men who mince around like females? How about the masculine lesbians?

Is that genetic or a learned behavior? Where's the limp wrist gene? Or the gene that makes women walk like cowboys?
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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So you think they're on to something by noting the hair whorl?

How about the men with no noticeable hair whorl who are gay?
Some people who get shot in the head die

How about people who get shot in the head and don't die?

Should we assume no link between being shot in the head and death?
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Land of Thought and Flow
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Females really have no use for anal sex except degradation and/or wanting to give pleasure to their male sex participant.

Women have no use for anal sex. Ask a lesbian.
Not quite a lesbian, but a female nontheless.

Some of us actually enjoy anal.
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:04 PM
 
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Here's something interesting to ponder. About 8% of all men have a counterclockwise hair whorl. However, nearly 25% of gay men have a counterclockwise hair whorl (it gets even more interesting when you look at left-handedness, hair whorls, and homosexuality).

Any theories as to why this is the case?
Is that also true in the Southern Hemisphere?
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:08 PM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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It seems to me you have pretty good first hand knowledge that your sexual orientation was not a conscious, deliberate choice you made.
As I just remembered the moment I realized I like men - it also could have been his army uniform I found attractive - that could have motivated it. But there were times when he didn't wear his uniform and I still thought he was attractive as well.

Either way, Oliver was the first time I can say that I realized that men were something to kiss and I found him attractive.

I don't believe that I had to decide to like men.
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:08 PM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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No, like I said, the attraction to women just "came about" one day. The choice that I was heterosexual came shortly thereafter.

You're erroneously equating "things I'm attracted to" , to my sexuality.
Watch out... everything you post is going to be nitpicked and challenged to death! It happened to me on another thread about homosexuals.
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:08 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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I did not choose to be 'straight' - it is how I was born.
... and gay people did not choose to be 'gay' - it is how they were born.

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Old 01-09-2012, 03:10 PM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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Some people who get shot in the head die

How about people who get shot in the head and don't die?

Should we assume no link between being shot in the head and death?
Yes we should. It depends on where you're shot in the head, what kind of bullet is used, the caliber of weapon, the distance the bullet had to travel...

Because there are some people who do not die from being shot in the head.

There is no link.

Most sexual predators are men. Is there a link between being a man and being a sexual predator?
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