@GamTrak 166523 wrote:
Reading that and Dom’s statement on that subject seemed odd to me at first only because I don’t recall ever being attracted to any female that I’ve met in a sexual way.
I guess the “curve” are the Bi-sexual people? In my mind (and I certainly could be wrong) I see that as “worldly” instead of nature. :tongue:
Worldly – nature – it all intertwines – that’s the way life evolves. “Worldly” things are what changes the imprint on our genes over generations and centuries. We are talking about “nature” versus “nurture” here.
Sexual preference, on the physical level, is controlled by the flow of hormones. Now, people are born having a circuitry that has the hormones being released by either the opposite sex or the same sex. That’s the nature part. Now comes the nurture. Everyone initially is pushed by society to prefer the opposite sex. For people on that side of the curve, it comes “naturally” and they never look to the other side or feel much interest. But people on the other side of the curve will have varying degrees of trouble getting interested in the opposite sex in a way that sets the hormones flowing.
Eventually people on the far end of the gay curve will seperate out and follow their nature instead of nurture. Some people toward the middle will go both ways and usually eventually settle on one side or the other. With some people the nurture is very strong and they spend their lives disregarding their nature.
So, if you are naturally on the same side of the curve as the “nurture” of society, it is not very likely that you are going to be interested in checking out the other side. Your hormones work the right way to fit into sociecty and there is no reason or desire to change that. If the “nurture” of society were focussed on gay being normal, you may well have foud yourself on the other side, depending on how far to the end of the curve you are.
It all makes sense to me that way.
In any case, the professor is correct, it really doesn’t matter. We are all the same people with the same feelings and desires. So you like strawberry icecream and I like chocolate – so what?