superchunk said:
To me, everything about you is coded in your genes. Even your tastes, sex included. Granted those tastes can have minor transitions through time, i.e. I have always disliked pickles and mustard, however, within the last few years I have become to enjoy mustard on my food. Now, I personally think that is because I never special order food and have been eating mustard occasionally for so long I just got used to it. |
You were born with X amount of taste buds, and as you grew up, your tongue expanded, making the taste buds farther apart. Everybody has a few things that gross them out early on, because everything is a taste explosion to kids, especially in the bitter department (coffee, wine, beer, grapefruit, brussel sprouts, etc.). Some people still have more than average taste buds, and some people have fewer. 25% of people are supertasters (hypersensitive to bitterness), 50% are "average", and 25% are non-tasters (very insensitive to bitterness). There's even a way to measure this, but I forgot what it is. It's easy to find online, and you can do it at home and it's hilarious.
psrock said:
Can someone explain to me why would anyone choose to be gay?
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Because they want to be hated for their whole life, OBVIOUSLY.
HappySqurriel said:
Being "gay" in the animal kingdom is quite a bit different from being "gay" in the human sense... In fact sex in general is quite a bit different being that most animals do not have sex for personal pleasure.
In the animal kingdom homosexuality is more often a sign of a dominant and submissive behavior which is more related to sexual activity in a prison than a bedroom.
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While many animals have different ideas about sex, they overlap with human ideas on the subject in several ways.
In fact, dolphins fall in love with each other and have families and very intense emotional bonds. When some tuna fishermen kill a dolphin, their "spouse" will actually commit suicide out of grief.
And Bonobos are known for having bisexual orgies and even trading food for sexual favors, i.e. monkey prostitution!
And the prison gayness you mentioned is very common in any situation that involves all men and no women, like pirates, sailors, coal miner, cowboys, basically any macho idea where it's all manly men and no women around... they're fucking.
Now here's the fun part: that doesn't make them gay. People's sexualities are not defined by a one time act but are actually defined by who they love in a romantic sense. I could go fuck 10 dudes right now on a dare if you paid me $500, and that wouldn't make me gay. That would make me $500 richer. What makes me straight is that I'm spending the rest of my life with my wife. Sexualities are defined by emotional desires, not physical acts. Booyah!