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PS3beats360 said:
A thread to celebrate coming out of the closet. So was everyone born gay or was it a lifestyle choice?

 

Well ask yourself can you all of a sudden become gay if you don’t feel anything towards men whatsoever? Now if you were to be bi then that’s a different thing.

 

For me it wasn’t a choice I didn’t even know it was wrong at first because I didn’t understand it.  

 

 



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Seraphic_Sixaxis said:
omg... since when did the fruity vallys come by to the chartz?

 

 omg...why did you even waste your time posting here?



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ctk495 said:
Gay threads are rising in popularity lately.

10,000 post deperation setting in huh? 



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mrstickball said:
I-Heart -

I don't think your banning was due to homosexuality, but more on the fact that you were trying to incite something stupid.

From your thread:


Hi, I am posting on behalf of the Gay Agenda.

If you did not know already, gay people exist for the sole purpose of upsetting high strung christians (shh.. its a secret)

If you choose to be one of us, you will score such benefits as;

-World Wide Telepathy between other homosexuals, so we can collude in out efforts to destroy the values of marriage and the concept of "family"

-And a double pass to Wicked or Billy Elliot.

You will also be assigned your own public bathroom or elementary school to start recruiting.



For more info:

Email: pigboybuttlover@gayrights.com

That was a pretty obviuosly sarcastic post...and funny! But I guess a little 'sarcasm' indicator at the bottom wouldn't have hurt :)

 



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I posted this in my cult movies thread but it's pretty relevant for this one. Watch, laugh, discuss!



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someone just said it was a choice! WHAT THE HELL? IT IS NOT A CHOICE. who cares if u prefer houses to cars. wehn i was young i played rough, i was into toy cars and all but also liked barbies from time to time. thats irrelevant. what i do know is that IT IS NOT A CHOICE! Also the naure vs nurture thing also blasphemy. WE WERE BORN THIS WAY AND THATS IT! now why dont i like bi people cause they chose to like both. ur either one or the other as harsh as that may sound. but i repeat NOT A CHOICE!



Putting the Box back in Ninlen!

someone just said it was a choice! WHAT THE HELL? IT IS NOT A CHOICE. who cares if u prefer houses to cars. wehn i was young i played rough, i was into toy cars and all but also liked barbies from time to time. thats irrelevant. what i do know is that IT IS NOT A CHOICE! Also the naure vs nurture thing also blasphemy. WE WERE BORN THIS WAY AND THATS IT! wannanow why dont i like bi people cause they chose to like both. ur either one or the other as harsh as that may sound. but i repeat NOT A CHOICE!

oh and also it was said and proved scientifically that GAY MEN SHARE MORE THE GENES OF A WOMEN THAN A MEN! so theres someone that said they relate more to guys than girls, i dont know hwere hes coming from but thats two strikes and now hes OUT! the other one being him saying its a choice. please!



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Ninlenbox said:

someone just said it was a choice! WHAT THE HELL? IT IS NOT A CHOICE. who cares if u prefer houses to cars. wehn i was young i played rough, i was into toy cars and all but also liked barbies from time to time. thats irrelevant. what i do know is that IT IS NOT A CHOICE! Also the naure vs nurture thing also blasphemy. WE WERE BORN THIS WAY AND THATS IT! wannanow why dont i like bi people cause they chose to like both. ur either one or the other as harsh as that may sound. but i repeat NOT A CHOICE!

oh and also it was said and proved scientifically that GAY MEN SHARE MORE THE GENES OF A WOMEN THAN A MEN! so theres someone that said they relate more to guys than girls, i dont know hwere hes coming from but thats two strikes and now hes OUT! the other one being him saying its a choice. please!

That bolded part really doesn't sound true.  People have been on the hunt for a genetic reasoning for being gay for a while (for one reason or another), and I would think it would be big news if a reputable source had found genetic evidence such as that you are speaking of.  Could be true, but I'd really like a source if you would be so kind.

 

 



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and here it is:

Gay men, straight women share brain detail: report
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LONDON (Reuters) - Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study highlighting the potential biological underpinning of sexuality.

Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men, the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"The observations cannot be easily attributed to perception or behavior," the researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institute wrote. "Whether they may relate to processes laid down during the fetal or postnatal development is an open question."

A number of studies have looked at the roles genetic, biological and environmental factors play in sexual orientation but little evidence exists that any plays an all-important role. Many scientists believe both nature and nurture play a part.

Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right hemisphere slightly larger than the left, Ivanka Savic and Pers Lindstrom wrote. The brains of gay men and heterosexual women were not.

Then they measured blood flow to the amygdala -- the area key for the "fight-or-flight" response -- and found it was wired in a similar fashion in gay men and heterosexual women as well as lesbians and heterosexual men.

The researchers added that the study cannot say whether the differences in brain shape are inherited or due to exposure to hormones such as testosterone in the womb and if they are responsible for sexual orientation.

But this is something they plan to look at in a further study of newborn babies to see if it can help predict future sexual orientation.

"These observations motivate more extensive investigations of larger study groups and prompt for a better understanding of the neurobiology of homosexuality," they wrote.



Putting the Box back in Ninlen!

That's a brain scan. If anything it proves that gay men think in a way more closely related to women than to men.

"The researchers added that the study cannot say whether the differences in brain shape are inherited or due to exposure to hormones such as testosterone in the womb and if they are responsible for sexual orientation."

So in essence they've found something that might lead one to believe that there is a genetic reason behind being gay, but noone has proven it with gene studies directly, which is what you statement implied or flat out said depending on how you look at it.

This could lead one to believe that being gay is genetic, but to prove that you would have to do a study of the brains of children as they grow and see when this difference manafests itself and why.



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