Topic > Homosexuality is not a choice - 1194

"My experience taught me a lot about 'choice' in sexual orientation. I knew I was 'different' at age 13, despite growing up in America relentlessly heterosexual of the 1940s.” This quote is from Patricia Nell Warren, she knew she was gay since she was 13, however, instead of coming out she was forced to hide who she was. She ended up getting married at age 18 and stayed married for 16 years, denying her inner reality. She also tried therapy to rid herself of her homosexual feelings, but those also failed, leaving her powerless. After two decades of trying and failing to adapt to the heterosexual lifestyle, he decided to “come out” at age 37 (Bily 2009). His story is just one of many and shows that homosexuality is not a choice, it is something you feel inside and is present from an early age, essentially at birth. Today many studies are done to demonstrate that homosexuality is something acquired at birth and something that belongs to man. A part of them that they cannot change, no matter what others believe or what they try to do to stop themselves from being homosexual. While there is no undeniable evidence regarding the origin of sexual preference, there is significant historical and sociological support that homosexuality is as natural as heterosexuality. Real brain studies have been done to show that homosexuals have a side to them that differs from that of homosexuality. heterosexuals. A rather well-known study on the difference between homosexual and heterosexual brains was conducted by Simon Levay. Levay was a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California (Biological Causes of Homosexual Attraction 2015), he focused his study on... halfway through the paper... there is no reliable evidence to support the assumptions The effectiveness of conversion treatment is based on incorrect assumptions and can be harmful. In conclusion, homosexuality is a natural thing, whether society believes it or not. It is found in nature around us. For example, in the Bonobo animal, their females participate in GG rubbing once every two hours or so (Roughgarden 2004). This would be considered homosexual behavior because it is female on female, Bonobos do this and are not exposed to the same everyday experience as us, meaning this behavior is innate in them. There are parts within us that conclude who we are and if homosexuality is one of those things why can't it be accepted? Although some have chosen to be homosexual, when confronted with scientific facts and testimonies from homosexuals, it quickly becomes obvious that there is no real choice in the matter...