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Originally Posted by Archaea
Does anybody choose their sexual feelings? That sounds very odd especially coming from a physician.
Don't you think sexual identity and "feelings" are a product of your innate inner workings and learned from the environment?
You have hormonal impulses, which when coupled with environmental factors, affect sexuality.
Example, if a guy has heterosexual urges, but lives a modest lifestyle, ignoring pornography and prostitutes or lascivious lifestyle, as opposed to the same guy who goes to strip joints, engages in whatever pleases him, don't you think his innate traits are affected by his behavior?
It makes little sense to say anybody chooses feelings, but personal workings and environmental factors probably affect homosexuality just as they affect heterosexuality.
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Wow, I didn't realize my one-line answer, obviously intended as a simplification of a very complex issue, would be put to such scrutiny...
Read the review I posted. I'll side with the science on this one, in that sexuality is a complex mixture of genetic predisposition, environmental factors, and lifestyle choices.
And being an ER doctor is a far cry from being an expert on human sexuality. So is being an attorney.