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[sheepgrl]

So I was talking to some friends and realized I've very different opinions than them on a lot of things. And I guess I just wanted to see what people in general think about homosexuality, three things in particular. So here's a poll - please vote. And I'm not friends-locking this entry, so if any of you have friends who might want to take this

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[essawkward]

If a woman has been married (to a man) for 40 years, then goes and falls in love with another woman, it's probably because...

I'd say it's specific to the situation. Things happen to people for different reasons.

Hmmmm

[prinzessfiona]

Hello!

Eh, I used to think about this a whole pile more, then i just stopped.

I think, personally, its to do with falling in love/lust with people...
Not Male People or Female People, Butch People, Femme People or Masculine People..... Just People!

I think that you are attracted to people for many reasons, their outward appearance and body are just one of the reasons!

:)

[littlesarybear]

I think that people...are probably born with a predisposition to be straight/gay/bi/etc. but that society/family/environment may play into their identified sexual orientation. I think that everyone falls somewhere on the gay-straight continuum. I think that the more oppressive my family/community/environment were, the more challenging it would be for me to first recognize any sexual orientation other than the recognized norm and then even more challenging to act upon it. Personally, I'm pretty sure that if I lived in a very oppressive environment it would've taken me much longer to admit that I wasn't straight or to date girls.

If a woman has been married (to a man) for 40 years, then goes and falls in love with another woman, it's probably because...she likely is attracted to both men and women and this time around it was a woman who caught her attention, OR, she grew up in an oppressive environment and while she was attracted to women didn't feel safe enough with her sexual orientation to actually date a woman and therefore

[x_hypatia_x]

On the last one, I would've picked "Her marriage is flawed and she's bisexual" if it had been an option, but honestly, I'm not real big on labeling sexuality. The Kinsey Scale is probably closest to something I'd agree with, but mostly, I'd say that you fall in love with whomever you're suited to. Unless you're very sharply at one end or the other of the scale, they may end up being the same or the opposite gender, who knows?

[anonymous]

I normally classify myself as "gay" purely on the account that, 95% of the time, I'm attracted to men. And I know a lot of people, of all sexualities, like to be open-minded and say people are born gay, but really, there's no scientific proof of it. Dr. Simon LeVay conducted experiments on a limited number of corpses of heterosexual and homosexual males and discovered that there are biological differences (homosexuals had smaller hypothalomi), but there was no way of concluding whether these differences were congenital or if they occured during puberty