RE: "Homosexuality is a choice" and its paradox
August 26, 2013 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 7:49 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
