"Homosexuality is a choice" and its paradox

[MindForgedManacle]

Just posing a question for which I have no answer,...

If homosexuality is NOT a choice, then to what extent should we consider other types of sexual attraction involuntary? For example, foot fetishes, beatiality, necrophilia, pedophilia, i.e. the whole range of human sexual expression, both mundane and extreme.

I would tend to say that sexual attraction is innate. However, both individuals and society have an invested interest in condemning actions that cause harm and/or violate one's consent in most cases. Among your examples, foot fetishes seem rather harmless. However, necrophilia will likely cause harm to the individual and emotionally harms the deceased's family, who have already had to go through the pain of loosing their loved one. Pedophilia takes advantage of the ignorance of the child and/or ignores consent, as does beastiality.

If homosexuality is a choice, then the implication is that human sexuality is largely plastic and gender identity open to change. Like the OP suggests, an otherwise heterosexual person could cultivate homosexual desires. And likewise a homosexual could cultivate hetro- desires.

Aside from the absense of anyone establishing that it is in fact a choice, it is irrelevant because then you're merely implying that there is something intrinsic to homosexuality that makes it abhorrent that has nothing to do with the way people usually (if not always) class immoral actions.

It seems to me that the vast range of sexual habits suggests it is more plastic and less fixed. Maybe 70-30%, respectively. Now as I've been writing this it occurs to me that perhaps a distinction should be made between biological sex, gender identity and sexual habits.

Biological sex is pretty much fixed. Even radial surgery cannot eliminate the Y chromosome. Gender identity may or may not be voluntary depending on the extent to which it is a cultural artifact. And sexual habits seem very plastic, especially considering people can have sexual responses to unnatural artifacts like gas masks.

Assuming it is the case that sexual habits are malleable, so what? That says nothing about the individual 'choosing' those preferences, i.e my taste for different kinds of foods has changed throughout my life, but I certainly did not choose for that to be the case.