So much wrong with that question...

When did marriage become about providing the best outcomes for children?

If every degree of equal rights requires a study, I take it you have relevant studies that showed blacks were equal to whites or women were equal to men before THEY were given equal rights?

Oh man, that's an easy one.  What if you're straight and marry a woman you're not attracted to.  Each person has their test in life.  I personally beleive that they are all in one way or another comparrable.  And if it's not in attraction, its in money, disease, family issues, stealing ect....That's my belief anyhow.

Some of the responses in this thread are genuinely horrifying. I'm appalled. How some people think its a choice or you can be 'cured' is a joke. Well here's something for you people who 'believe' its a choice. It's not. Fact. This makes your 'opinion' on this topic irrelevant. It's not about opinions.

Funny thing, a good part of straight girls often watch lesbian porn. Some studies have measured their reaction to different kinds of porn and speculate women evolved to become excited with most recognizable sex acts as a protection against rape. That says a lot about us men huh. 

you can't help what attracts you..

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1. Yes

2. Yes

3. As if you're really interested in that answer(s)

EDIT: Regarding Q1, I would never put myself through that process of self-conditioning, because I see no use in developing such desires.

Tens of thousands of years ago and remained that way up until around 100 years ago where it has slowly been eroded away by a combination of mass media romanticism and progressive policies ...

Now, here is the problem, I don't see how claiming a relationship that fails to meet the definition of being married actually denies people of rights. As long as the criteria is meaningful andarbitrary there is no discrimination. "Can Procreate" is a pretty meaningful criteria that is not arbitrary given tens of thousands of years of being the primary goal of marriage.

Here is another way to look at it, if marriage is just an arbitrary celebration of love why is polygamy illegal?

Marriage is a social structure that has existed for tens of thousands of years with its primary purpose being pro-creation.

What gives you the right to change that definition because a few people want to hold a fancy party to celebrate their love?

Actually the primary reason was consolidation of wealth and assets. It also gave people rights should a marriage go awry.

Regardless of that, things change to accommodate changes. That's how the world works - we need change.

Also if marriage is so sacred to straight people, why are a lot of them breaking down? Why are there so many affairs? Why, why, why? We could be asking questions all day. I'd like some of the idiots on here to have their rights taken away for a single day. Maybe then they could appreciate all the 'whining'. It's a sad world where people have to whine to be treated as equals.

Sexuality is a learned process, but you misunderstand how it is a learned process.

- Exposure
- Attraction
- Arousal
- Experience

The more exposure you have to something, be it non-nude pictures of attractive men or women, the more an attraction builds.  With the opposite sex, it is likely more sexual in nature to begin with, but with the same sex, it begins as an attractive to features that you expressly desire of yourself.  We start to assign labels on particular guys or girls that they're cute or hot.  If that attraction builds, eventually you may develop an arousal related to it.  Once an arousal has set in, and initially it may be for a particular individual unless one is exposed to a dearth of material, one may act on that arousal building an experience.  For most of us (especially guys) this means masturbation, but it may actually mean a sexual experience.  Once solidified into a sexual experience, once the link between attraction, arousal, and sexual experience has been fused there will be, forever, a sexual attraction.

If you're continually exposed to someone, without developing an attraction it doesn't mean anything.  A boy can be a friend to a girl for a lifetime and never be attracted to her until someone points out what makes her attractive.  From the opposite end of the spectrum, an early experience can solidify the link between attraction and arousal.  However, it is less certain.  While more inclined to reject an association with an early sexual experience, adoption of an attraction and arousal isn't unheard of. 

To answer the questions: 

1.  If you're not sexually attracted to the material, you won't get an erection. 

2.  Your level of testosterone affects this.  The younger you are, the more testosterone you have and the more likely you will get and maintain an erection.  As you get older, you may get an erection, but you can also move beyond it and lose it.

3.  It isn't a superpower, it's called getting old.  You will, one day, come to the point where you long for the sexual arousal of your youth.