7th April 2003, 11:30 PM
Yeah, Weltall, there's a difference between an act of homosexuality and being turned on by an act of homosexuality. As you said, you, I, and anyone else with the PHYSICAL CAPABILITY can go and have sex with a guy. On the other hand, this is merely physical, and doesn't take into consideration any emotional or mental motivation that a person has to have sex. You could go and toss a guy's salad from dusk till dawn, but does that mean you'll get off on it? Of course not... same with homosexuals: they have the physical capability of having sex the way society tells them they should, but that doesn't mean they'll enjoy it. That's their whole motivation for having sex with a member in the same gender in the first place, and it must be pretty damned big if they're willing to alienate homophobic family members/friends to engage in it.
One may abstain from sex all s/he pleases, but that doesn't make the sex drive go away. If that were true, I'd never have any need for masturbation... which also blows my mind...
Oh, and you could also say, "Well, if you decided to no longer have sexual attraction towards women or anything, then you wouldn't masturbate, and you'd be asexual!" Simply wishing my sex drive to go away won't make it, though... it's an instinct that I couldn't ignore if I tried. I could abstain from acting on it, and I could tell myself that I don't want to have sex, but I'd be living a lie.
Tell me that you could successfully be gay, have anal sex with guys every night, make yourself like it a LOT, and transform into a homosexual, and then I'll see where you're coming from with this whole decision angle.
One may abstain from sex all s/he pleases, but that doesn't make the sex drive go away. If that were true, I'd never have any need for masturbation... which also blows my mind...

Tell me that you could successfully be gay, have anal sex with guys every night, make yourself like it a LOT, and transform into a homosexual, and then I'll see where you're coming from with this whole decision angle.