Do we choose our sexuality?

[boogalish]

At first I always thought that if you were gay, you were born gay. Then I started realizing that all the years of influence from your childhood surroundings, from the time you are born, has a great impact on the choices you make in life. You choose your favorite color, number, food…what you like to do…what you don’t like to do. You’ve chosen and

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Re: Boo yah!

[anonymous]

Exactly. I know dozens of people who are gay and say they wish they weren't and would do anything to be straight and be like other people but it is hard for them to pretend like they did for the first half of there life. I do believe your lifestyle as a child may tamper with who you are but it isn't so much your choice. It's more of your parents subconsciously making you who you are. At that young of an age the choices aren't yours at all. If it was merely a choice it would be just as easy to change. Someone may choose to smoke and see nothing wrong with it but when they see that it causes them cancer they might be able to stop doing that "choice" they made. But I haven't seen anyone able to deny who they are (sexuality wise) because it hurts them and actually start liking what they haven't liked there whole life. I think it is based on your early surroundings and you as a fragile vulnerable child have no say in who you will like. It is different for ever person. I'm pretty sure if you took 50 babies and raced then to think "gay is the way" there would maybe be 5 straight ones in the end because of the influence....maybe I'm wrong. I give up. bye