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What is your sexual orientation (you can be honest because of the anonymity of this poll)?
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77Heterosexual0%64Homosexual/lesbian0%1Bisexual0%3All of above0%1None of above0%1Mind your own business0%7Brian (the devil incarnate)
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Man, I am sooo straight, if I were a woman, I'd be a lesbian.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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Shouldn't there be an option for those who really aren't sure yet?
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I was wondering where you got your 15%, Brian. I searched for this on google and found what the original Kinsey results were:
I always thought the idea that one is somehow "genetically gay" was BS. It's just an excuse cooked up by liberals for equating gay-bashing with racism, as though they could not help "being gay," whatever that means. I have yet to see any proof of one's sexual orientation having a genetic basis. If someone has hard science on this, please post it.Comment
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I'm bisexual.
I use both hands.Comment
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You know, I really don't know WHY someone is/becomes homosexual (I'm sure there is more than one reason), but I have no problem at all with homosexuals (after all, one less competitor for every gay man
). The only problem I have is that until I turned 18 or so, the only people who ever approached me were gay men. I really began to wonder what was wrong with me
Oh, and I hate people acting queer (overly "feminine").
Actually, I have no problem at all with other peoples' sexual preferences, as long as what they do is consensual, and as long as they don't harass me with it, just as I don't run through the streets shouting "look at me! I'm straight!".
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Then you probably hate lesbians...Originally posted by az
I have no problem at all with homosexuals (after all, one less competitor for every gay man"For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."Comment
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Oh no, why would I? After all, everybody knows they're only lesbian to let men watch (Honestly, I don't care if they're lesbian. It's not that I want to have sex with every woman I meet. Of course, I'd be sad if the love of my life were lesbian, but that would really be no different than her just not being interested in me)
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Originally posted by Tempest
I'm bisexual.
I use both hands.
.... that bad ay?
"They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"Comment
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heh.. i think Brian was afraid to add that in so as not to be given the MURC COC title of Minister of Confused.... erm... you get the picture....Originally posted by Fat Tone
Shouldn't there be an option for those who really aren't sure yet?
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"They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"Comment
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Re: Orientation - adults only, please!
Hmm what about Sasq and Ant?Originally posted by Brian Ellis
What is your sexual orientation (you can be honest because of the anonymity of this poll)?According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless..
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Re: Re: Orientation - adults only, please!
What, you think they're dating each other?Originally posted by Guru
Hmm what about Sasq and Ant?Comment
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Straight but would have no objections if I suddenly started getting horny for men to call myself bi... that just hasn't ever happened (yet?)
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Back to disagreementOriginally posted by KvHagedorn
I was wondering where you got your 15%, Brian. I searched for this on google and found what the original Kinsey results were:
I always thought the idea that one is somehow "genetically gay" was BS. It's just an excuse cooked up by liberals for equating gay-bashing with racism, as though they could not help "being gay," whatever that means. I have yet to see any proof of one's sexual orientation having a genetic basis. If someone has hard science on this, please post it.
To quote the Kinsey report, which was conducted 50 years ago when there was less openness and applied only to males is not in the least clever. I would have expected better from you.
I have no idea as to the causes of homosexuality. I don't even know a true definition. I think that true homosexuality involves more than sexuality; it also involves emotional ties between the partners. To explain: is mutual masturbation between adolescents homosexual? No, I think it's just to let steam out of a highly pressurised hormonal autoclave, where there is no other outlet, combined with curiosity. What about married men in prison or other monosexual company indulging in a little slap and tickle, yet revert to "normal" heterosexuality when they are released? Do they form an attachment for their male partners? I suggest rarely. If you or I admire the body of, say, a young male gymnast or just the looks of a lad, does that have homosexual connotations? I think not. If you are in the showers after a game of something, and you glance at someone's attributes, is that homosexual?
Whatever, if you will permit me to do so (or if you don't) I reproach you for introducing a political flavour to this thread ("liberals ... gay-bashing ... racism").
As for my own views, I believe I'm at least 99% hetero. I did have some mutual masturbation exercises as a schoolboy (boys' school, boarding and day), involving no emotional attachments and nothing more than the hand. I did have one only similar when I was in the army, admittedly under the alfluence of incohol, again an emotionless hand job. I have never had any form of attachment with a man, nor does the idea of one appeal to me. If those youthful experiences make me a queer, in your puritan eyes, so be it. I have never had any sexual or emotional encounters of any kind other than with females of the species since the last one above, nor have I had any wish. Notwithstanding, if two blokes wish to do it that way, that is their affair, as long as they don't try to involve me. Live and let live!Brian (the devil incarnate)
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On what real basis do you so lightly dismiss Kinsey? What makes you think those people surveyed were somehow more inhibited in telling the truth because of the times? I would submit that they would be more trusting of the survey takers and their promises of anonymity than people now would be, simply because this is a more jaded age. In any case, it was done with objectivity and the conclusions make sense. I think it's pointless to try to categorize people as "homosexuals" or "heterosexuals". As you say, youthful experiments do not make one "gay", and in asserting this you are agreeing with Kinsey. You should probably go back and read that more thoroughly. He cited the male study but also made a study of females which gave similar results.Comment
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