"Homosexuality is a choice" and its paradox

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Sexual practices are activities voluntarily engaged in to satisfy appetites. These can include traditionally accepted normative practices like kissing, petting and coitus or they can move into various perversions like oral sex, anal intercourse, role-playing, "watersports", sadomasochism. Sexual practices are chosen.

This is false I think. Firstly, what of these 'appetites'? Was the fact that they are what is being sought to sate chosen? No, because then that means you're saying that you can choose your preferences, which just ends up beginning an infinite regress. Preferences essentially guide your decision-making process. If you can 'choose' said preferences, then to be consistent there'd have to be other preferences which, under this proposition, would also have to have been chosen. But that gets you nowhere fast.


And I find it a bit silly that you say anal sex is a perversion that isn't traditional (it's pretty damn old and pervades probably every human society ever, certainly as far back as the Roman empire) or normative. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here.

Evangelicals categorize homosexuality as a sexual practice. Gay activists treat it as a biological fact and, as such, consider it a part of their natural being. I question both positions.

Well, given (I think) it's a preference - and therefore innate at base - I would likely disagree with whatever your position is.

Everyone agrees that some people handle anger better than others and some are inclined to depression. And most people agree that the normal range for acting on those emotions is based on cultural factors. For grief, temporary social withdrawal following the the loss of a spouse or child is accepted. Suicide after the death of a pet is not. For anger, taking legal action after being defrauded is a normal response. Road rage resulting in violence is not. Sexual arousal is just one among many emotional responses. On what basis do you elevate sexual arousal to an essential part of your personal being and not so other emotions?

If it is a preference as I think - and thus innate - that makes it an essential part of one's being. It has to do with what is considered in most cultures to be the most intimate act for humans. However, the difference between sexual arousal and other emotions is that with those other emotions, taking them to the extreme tends to put other lives at risk (i.e your road rage example). Would you classify homosexuality as the sexual equivalent of extremity? Because unlike with those other emotions, it doesn't tend to put others at great physical harm done safely.