Interpretations of sexuality

I actually see the point this is making.

 

I don't see the point, because if it was a social construct, then why wouldn't pray the gay away work? Why would someone intentionally put themselves through the ridicule that you can get for being gay?

 

You don't have to preach to me that god isn't real, any sensible person (sorry religious people) knows that.
It might only weaken the theory, but i'm still highly skeptical about it.

 

There's always a chance that this might be true, but from my own personal experience, there's no way in hell.
(Sorry if i sound like an arse, that's just my general attitude in debates)

 

Most likely people in ye olde times didn't know much/anything about LGBT people, because they didn't have modern science as we know it.
And furthermore, if homosexuality is a social construct, wouldn't heterosexuality be aswell?
And last but not least, the evidence for the sexuality is determined biologically or genetically is rising.

 

Well all living organisms have a instinct to mate no matter how advanced so I think that sexuality being a social construct is unlikely, but then again if it's biology that gives us an urges to mate how comes the LGBT community exists? I'm so bloody confused.

 

Biology and sexual orientation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I know, not the most reliable source, but too lazy to find all the individual links.

 

I don't think sexuality isn't a social construct. Like the person above, I'm gay because I just happen to like guys more than girls, and I feel certain ways towards them in ways that I could never feel towards a girl. As for society trying to tell us that it's wrong, I disagree. Whatever happened to that theory where homosexuality is Mother Nature's way of stopping overpopulation? I like that theory since it doesn't make it seem like I'm some freak of nature that needs to converted in order to fit into what society wants me to be.

In places like India, China, the Philippines, and Bangladesh, where overcrowding is a problem, do you think that procreation and bringing more and more beings into this world is the best thing for their societies?

 

While this certainly was true in my case... I can't speak for everyone else. I have no way of knowing if everyone else is simply limited to one sex by their hangups and their environment or if they're limited by a hard biological switch.

Look at this another way: different languages have different systems for color. It turns out the language that we use plays a very strong role in how we perceive color. But some people are also colorblind and see things differently for biological reasons.

 

I'm also skeptical about the overpopulation theory, wouldn't this suggest some sort of higher power observing the overpopulation?

 

I don't really think it is, although I could very easily be wrong. I remember there was a thread on here a whole back about whether gender was a social construct and people really started getting angry, so I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar happen here.

Also it wouldn't be an EC thread without someone offending basically all religions and religious people. I thought this site was supposed to be accepting. It seems a bit hypocritical that its not.

 

To add to that, why does homosexuality occur in endangered species? Why did it occur at nearly the same rates when there were only a few million humans on the planet? How can someone's body even 'detect' that there are too many other humans? Pretty easy hypothesis to shoot holes in.

 

Obviously I feel the same way as you towards males otherwise I doubt I would be here and I suppose you have a point about the overpopulation but I doubt that is the explanation. I have trouble believing Mother Nature is that smart.

 

I'm getting slightly pissed of at how in postmodernism, suddenly every goddamn thing is socially constructed.
I'm already slightly uncomfortable with people who act like only gender exists and sex doesnt and hence it's all socially constructed, and humans arent really a species with two sexes...
and now sexuality? Give it a break you guys.
Biology is biology is biology.

 

Well I guess so, now that I think about it. They did mention that the world's population was going to cap in the next 50-60 years.

 

Were talking about the possibility of society affecting gender, we're not saying that that's what happened or that sex is now a byproduct of society, it's a interesting thing to talk about but we just talking about it, if your that pissed with it just don't read.
Sorry for being harsh.