Posted on 03/22/2012 7:08:36 AM PDT by Sopater
Time for a thought experiment: Are straight people born that way? When I put the question to a number of sexology colleagues, they thought it a good question -- indeed, a hard question.
To answer it, we have to start with a more fundamental question: What do we mean when we say someone is "straight"? At the most basic level, we seem to be imagining female bodies that are specifically sexually aroused by male bodies, and vice versa.
Laboratory studies such as those conducted by Michael Bailey of Northwestern University and Meredith Chivers of Queens University suggest that, while such people probably do exist -- at least in North America, where many sexologists have focused their attentions -- it's not uncommon for straight-identified people to be at least a little aroused by the idea of same-sex relations.
The media has tended to broadcast the news that gay-identified men and straight-identified men have quite discernible arousal patterns when they are shown various kinds of sexual stimuli. And that's true. But if you look closely at the data, you'll see that most straight-identified men do tend to show a little bit of arousal across sex categories (as do gay-identified men).
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Wow, yeah. Talk about all jacked up!
Is a male dog born with the innate tendency to be attracted to and wish to mate with female dogs?
Is a female cat born with the innate tendency to be attracted to and wish to mate with male cats?
Satan and his minions on the left HATE the traditional family, it being the original human institution created by God.
ABSOLUTELY. Straight people are born straight. I remember very well back whenI was just starting to really notice girls. Sitting in class stealing glances at some special girl sitting there with them sexy legs. NEVER even crossed my mind to look at some dude.
I could NEVER choose to be a homosexual, my stuff wouldnt work for them.
ABSOLUTELY. Straight people are born straight. I remember very well back whenI was just starting to really notice girls. Sitting in class stealing glances at some special girl sitting there with them sexy legs. NEVER even crossed my mind to look at some dude.
I could NEVER choose to be a homosexual, my stuff wouldnt work for them.
ABSOLUTELY. Straight people are born straight. I remember very well back whenI was just starting to really notice girls. Sitting in class stealing glances at some special girl sitting there with them sexy legs. NEVER even crossed my mind to look at some dude.
I could NEVER choose to be a homosexual, my stuff wouldnt work for them.
I remember well the oblate spheroids of my geometry teacher’s breasts. Puberty hit me HARD. They were hypnotic. Their slightest motion had me entranced. They were on a nanosecond delay - she would move - and they would follow. Hypnotic.
I don’t remember being presented with a CHOICE on if I wanted them. It was inescapable! I WANTED THEM!!!!
Twenty five years later I can still remember them!
Northwestern University? - the sex-toy school? You don’t have to have a pulse, or even be human, or even be an animal for them to want to have sex. At Northwestern, you have to put a cap on the exhaust of your car after you park it to keep the boys from burning themselves.
Yes Alice, we are born that way, and a good thing too else the species would have died out milennia ago. Gays and lesbians on the other hand simply suffer from a form of malignant narcissism, or were abused in youth.
what in Heaven’s name is “sexology”?
Are straight people born that way?
When you consider that the fun parts actually function correctly when two straight people get together, nature seems to be answering that question for us.
what ever became of the ‘gay gene’ theory?
guess that theory didn’t pass muster so it was dropped by the activists on the QT..
Liberal Projection is endlessly fascinating.
In other words not only were straight folks born that way, but they were made that way. In a similar fashion babies were born small, because they were designed to be small at birth. They were made with two arms, it would be abominable to choose to be one armed or one eyed just because daddy didn't love you enough!
Yes, ALL people are born straight.
I’m not sure you can get to there from what I said - but I know for sure that upon puberty I had no choice at all in the fact that I found women attractive and breast motion hypnotic.
Fixation upon the same sex does happen in animals, and IIRC it is more common among species that have a large overlap in sexual dimorphism.
Males of our species tend to be larger than females - but there is a wide overlap. Some think men and women’s secondary sexual characteristics are to obviate that and make it more obvious that the bearded individual with wide shoulders and narrow hips and hair on his body is male and the individual without a beard or as much body hair and with wide hips and developed breasts is female.
Keeping kids going through puberty in sexual isolation from opposite sex peers also tends to confuse the issue. It is more difficult for a young man to “imprint” upon females as desired sexual partners if they never SEE female peers.
Just my 0.02$.
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