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[quote="EricS"]I'm not a gay, so I just wonder what makes a person a gay, or how does it feel to be interested in your own sex, male-male, female-female. What makes gays to prefer own sex than the opposite sex?[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>DevilKisses</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:03 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Feeling attracted to the same sex feels the same as being attracted to the opposite sex. It's that simple.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Joker</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:00 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">It feels the same as being striat we just feel that way about the same sex.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Mus</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:07 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I am sure you are right. I'm just saying how it seems from my perspective. Women have more room in their sexuality. Think about it: when two women kiss, a lot of people (men and women) say, "That's hot!" but when two men kiss, even if it's the only time either of them ever kiss another man, they're both labeled as gay.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>puddingmouse</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:02 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>LiendaBalla wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Mus, some women really do like other women.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />*raises hand*</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>LiendaBalla</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:36 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Mus, some women really do like other women.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Mus</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:06 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I love men. I love strength, hairiness, stubble, the way men act, the way men think, they way men dress, all those things that make a man a man. It's nothing that I ever chose or decided, it's just how it is. <br /> <br />I don't hate women or vaginas, but as far as sex goes they just do nothing for me. I can't explain it but it doesn't hurt anybody either way so I don't think it particularly needs explained. <br /> <br />I would not be surprised if male homosexuality (like mine) is ultimately discovered to have a different cause from female homosexuality. This is not scientific at all but in my experience men are homosexual because they/we LOVE men. <br /> <br />Women are often homosexual because they don't particularly like men, and women are there. Female sexuality seems more "fluid" than male sexuality to me, where men are mostly "set" as either gay or straight, but women have more "wiggle room."</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Jean_Descole</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:58 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Have no idea, since I have no frame of reference to say how it feels to be straight or anything other than gay.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>SanityTheorist</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:03 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I was treated badly by women. That probably played a role as did my poor paternal relationship. <br /> <br />I am much like TheHouseholdCat, but in the sense I am just attracted to genitals instead of people. <br /> <br />I think overly confident people are the overly sexual ones...</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>TheHouseholdCat</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:59 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>emlion wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Grisha wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">LOL, gays guys don't want sex with EVERY man.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Where does that come from? <br /> <br />There seems to be this extremely common idea among straight guys that all you need to do is "turn gay" (as if that were actually possible) and you would get all the sex you could possibly handle. <br /> <br />Some of even the most "aesthetically challenged" guys think that they are total gay magnets. <br /> <br />Can't possibly be true...</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I know. <br />I don't think women think the same about lesbians? <br />It's a weird thing to think - I never understood it either. <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif" alt="Confused" border="0" /></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br />Yeah, I think this is much more frequent with straight guys. <br /> <br />I think it's all about their homophobia. As if it was an epidemic. ^^ <br /> <br />You know... In football you often have these fears that having gay football players on the team and in the changing rooms may be a great problem, while the real problem is that there are many gay football players in the closet who can never be themselves. Because "gay guys want sex with every man". So they hide and this affects their performance and their psychological health. <br /> <br />It's one-dimensional thinking. Because many straight guys do not understand what being "gay" means. And if they gave it real thought, maybe they'd find out about themselves that they are not as straight as they have always believed.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>TheHouseholdCat</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:50 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I once read an article on a university website and one paragraph talked about the difficulty of saying someone IS gay. If you know what I mean. <br /> <br />I know people are undecided on whether homosexuality is something you've been born with or something that you decide for yourself. <br /> <br />But the more interesting question for me would be if sexuality in general is something that you... more or less consciously decide. <br /> <br />Let's say... you're a guy who prefers other guys to girls. It shouldn't define your whole being. It's just one of many aspects of your individual personality. That's my main problem with those terms. <br /> <br />Let's compare it to identifying with a particular country or culture. Theoretically, I could identify with two different cultures, but in fact I identify with no particular culture but various aspects from various cultures. I don't know whether you could compare that to sexuality, but I think sexuality is so complex and diverse and it always depends on the individual. <br /> <br />So, as for me, I identify as neither heterosexual nor homosexual or bisexual or what you like... I don't feel I have to do that anyway. Other people are a mystery to me, but I do not identify as "asexual" either. Because what would that mean? I even like some people on a more or less sexual level (even if I can only perceive this abstractly), but... I don't know... I don't have one definite preference.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>StevieC</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:40 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Brainiac5 wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">What I do sometimes wonder about regarding homosexuality (and I don't mean this to in any way to critique or offend anyone), is that sex between a male and female has a biological purpose, and homosexuality eliminates that purpose. So what exactly does cause homosexuality and why? Just a thought.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />One hole I see in that argument is that in a lifetime most people have on average about 2 kids, and in a lifetime most people (I think) will probably have sex at least a few hundred times. That seems to indicate that 99% of the time sex isn't about reproduction. If it were truly only about that I think people would feel compelled not to use birth control. The instinct seems more about f****** than actually reproducing most of the time (though a few times people will obviously make sure is also about reproduction). And since for some primates it serves a role in social stuff and bonding and so forth, it's not hard to see parallels with human behavior.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />i always assumed it was mother nature controlling the population, or at least trying to (the planet will only support so many people).</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Jory</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:04 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">How does it feel being gay? It feels like I'm attracted to other men, and it feels like a lot of people in the world hate me because of it.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>CockneyRebel</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 11:23 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I feel like an ordinary person, except I'm a very masculine woman who's attracted to women.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Aerith</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 1:58 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>kittylover wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Just like it's difficult for a straight person to imagine how it "feels" to be gay, it's difficult for me as a (male-to-female) transsexual person to imagine how it feels to like being the sex you were born.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">As a bicurious (gay with rare hetero inclinations) male-but-genderqueer-at-heart, I can totally imagine myself being totally gay, straight, bi, and/or cis/transgendered in another life. I honestly feel that, personally, the genitalia present don't matter. Well, not much, at least. <br /> <br />It's much the same way that one can find it strange that another is a foot fetishist...or, hell, inherently liking cats over dogs, but ferrets most of all (not sexually...unless we're talking of the furry community). <br /> <br />Thinking of "I wonder how it feels to be..." is a pointless thought to me. You either feel it or you don't. What's important is that one remains open-minded and respectful of others, even if they're different than you in some or other way.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>kittylover</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:55 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Just like it's difficult for a straight person to imagine how it "feels" to be gay, it's difficult for me as a (male-to-female) transsexual person to imagine how it feels to like being the sex you were born. <br /> <br />As for cross-gender hormones for transsexuals not changing sexual preference, I don't think it's simply "no". I was only ever attracted to girls, but now that I'm on hormones, I have feelings like i want to cuddle with some of my male friends.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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