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Originally Posted by Archaea
Does anybody choose their sexual feelings? That sounds very odd especially coming from a physician.
Don't you think sexual identity and "feelings" are a product of your innate inner workings and learned from the environment?
You have hormonal impulses, which when coupled with environmental factors, affect sexuality.
Example, if a guy has heterosexual urges, but lives a modest lifestyle, ignoring pornography and prostitutes or lascivious lifestyle, as opposed to the same guy who goes to strip joints, engages in whatever pleases him, don't you think his innate traits are affected by his behavior?
It makes little sense to say anybody chooses feelings, but personal workings and environmental factors probably affect homosexuality just as they affect heterosexuality.
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The issue is do they choose to be what they are. The complex of environmental and biological including genetic factors leading to sexual preference is still unknown. You're just speculating. The answer is unknown, and this isn't your field anyway. I'm not interested in any interested lay person's speculation.
But gays attest they didn't choose to be gay. This is the crux of their civil rights case and the crux of the moral issue.