| crissindahouse said: something i wonder, people who think gay people chose to be gay, do those think they chose to like tiny girls more as tall girls or slim girls more as overweight girls? maybe you can do that but most don't right? they just like what they like. why should i think then that a guy who likes guys chose that? |
Well, to be honest, society and the environment pretty much have children conditioned relative to what is and is not attractive pretty early. Finding skinny girls attractive, for instance, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Previously, thin would mean poor, which is the opposite of now. Also, tanned would indicate outdoor labor, so pale skin was considered more attractive. Conditioning is very powerful, a lot more powerful than people realize.
You can make pretty much anyone like anything, or hate anything, by association. That's why those hair club ads have the person looking sad in the "before" picture and happy in the "after" picture, to create an association between those concepts. One of the more famous psychological experiments produced boot fetishes in men who did not have that fetish previously.
