Why do people say Homosexuality is not a choice?

It's

not

a

choice

becasue

you

can't

actively

chose

who

you

are

attracted

to.

Simple really.

When I had my first crush at the age of 10 I didn't think "do I want this person to be a boy or a girl???"

It just happened, it was a boy, and I'm straight.

To say sexuality is a choice is just plain stupid.

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Well of course you can ignore your feelings. I could go have sex with a girl right this minute and have a relationship with her, and ignore all attraction to men I'll ever have in the future.

Would that mean I "chose gay"?

No. It wouldn't. I'd still be straight underneath it all, no matter who I "persued" sex and a relationship with.

Your sexual orientaion is defined by which gender(s) you feel sexual and romantic attraction to - NOT who you f #uck.

A gay person is someone who has feelings for the same sex. Just because they don't act on them, doesn't make them straight. Who they have sex/relationships with doesn't determine their sexuality. If they have feelings for the same sex, they are still gay. They can't control these feelings, as we already established.

"The only way it is not a choice is if someone forces you to choose it." Wrong. So f*cking wrong. You didn't make the conscious choice to be attracted to the opposite sex. It wasn't a choice. It's your choice whether or not you want to act on your feelings, but not whether or not you get them in the first place.

I'm really trying not to chew you out because you're so ignorant. It's not a choice, sexuality is pretty much thrust upon you, and you don't have much say in it. I guarantee you, the boys and girls who have killed/harmed themselves due to the inner and outer conflict dealing with their sexuality didn't choose that. Please go knock your head against something very hard to get that ridiculous notation out of it.

This questions a bit confusing, if your gay but you choose to have sex with the oppisite gender, it does not make you straight, your still gay. Being gay dosn't mean who you have sex with, it means who your attracted to. Yes of course if you have sex with someone of any gender then it is your choice to have sex with them, but who your attracted to ,no that's not your choice. You say you choose to be staight you cannot choose to be straight, being heterosexual means you are attracted to the oppistite gender. If you decided to have sex with someone of the same gender then you would not be gay, you would be a straight person having sex with someone of the same gender.

I don't think it's a choice. I'm a woman, and I didn't wake up one day like, "Hmm, I think...I think I'm going to be attracted to guys! Yep, men it is!"

If one could choose, why wouldn't they make the decision to be attracted to every man? Wouldn't that be fun? Or to be attracted to nobody, or just one person? That would be easier. Even logically, choosing your attraction just doesn't make sense.

If you're actually being serious you're possibly one of the most ignorant / retarded people i've ever seen online. You really think it's a choice to be attracted to someone?

why would they choose to be straight if they have a genetic predisposition to being gay

y would some one choose to be abused for the rest of your life

a choice is a concious decision

Because if your homosexual you cannot force yourself to be not gay

i don't know and i don't care. in fact i've never really even thought about it before. because it doesn't matter.