Why doesn’t my sexual reproductive system determine if I am straight?
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Plus aren’t there reactions or stimulus in the body that happen with sole evolutionary purpose of mating with the opposite sex? I thought that humans were evolved to be attracted to the opposite sex? For example men are attracted to the female who can most like produce offspring and female are attracted to those who can sire them the best offspring. Isn’t that true for all animals and a part of evolution. Men become erect to insert their penis into the vagina for procreation, not the anus. The anus was never built for sex.
Why do people say that the only reason for sexual stimulation or the feeling for arousal is to make someone feel good? That doesn’t makes sense, I thought it was to get you to mate with the opposite sex. Not to get your rocks off.
So how can someone look at a biology book and read up on the human reproductive system work along with how hormones work with it and say that homosexuality is not a dysfunction.
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My teacher says that homosexually is hereditary. I agree with her. Maybe the instincts genes were messed up. Instincts as in humans are supposed to naturally like the opposite sex.
Clearly sex is not strictly a procreative function but is also done for recreational purposes. Human thought and its drive for pleasure is a bit more complex than just about simple impulses or reflexes in which gratification is correlated to the culmination of some biological imperative.
No one can explain what motivates attraction to the opposite sex, same sex or even to animate objects outside the species. As with any species, there are “exceptions” among individuals to behavior and thought. Those exceptions need not be judged to be abnormal, deviant, perverse, or dysfunctional, since it calls upon a judgment which NO ONE is capable of making. (Live and let live is the best rule.)
If one dares to bring in science to set up a philosophical foundation in ethics, then one should be very sure of the truth and the correctness of one’s views. No one possessed with the slightest reason should dare such a thing.
Does your sexual reproductive system determine if you like blondes or redheads?
No.
The points is that sexual preference is *WAY* more complicated than what equipment you are born with.
>”I thought that humans were evolved to be attracted to the opposite sex?”
As with everything else in science, the first thing to do is re-examine your assumptions. What you “thought” may be based purely on some preconception that, when you really look at it, has no basis.
It is a necessary part of the evolution of all sexually reproducing *species*, that there are at least *some* males and females that are attracted to each other somehow.
But it is NOT a necessary part of evolution that ALL INDIVIDUALS are attracted to members of the opposite sex … or have any sexual drives whatsoever. Just SOME of them. There are MANY examples of this in nature.
>”The anus was never built for sex.”
Uhm … neither was the hand. Is “not built for sex” really how you want to define “dysfunctional”?
>”Why do people say that the only reason for sexual stimulation or the feeling for arousal is to make someone feel good? That doesn’t makes sense, I thought it was to get you to mate with the opposite sex.”
Really? I don’t know if you have had any sexual experiences yet … but let me assure you that more than a few people occasionally have sex without any goal whatsoever of producing offspring. In fact, they are specifically trying to *avoid* it. Does having sex without any desire for procreation “dysfunctional.”
>”So how can someone look at a biology book and read up on the human reproductive system work along with how hormones work with it and say that homosexuality is not a dysfunction.”
Simple. For the same reason that I don’t think that sexual desire without procreation is “dysfunctional.” Sexual response has clearly evolved *WAY* beyond what is necessary just for procreation. So it can have MANY ways of expressing itself beyond what is strictly needed for procreation.
So from a *biological*, and *evolutionary* point of view, there is nothing more “dysfunctional” about homosexuality, than the fact that I am a straight man that prefers redheads over blondes. If sexual desire was *purely* about making babies, then I should be equally attracted to *ALL* women … and I would find women on birth control completely unattractive (which I assure you I don’t).
So the word “dysfunctional” is pure prejudice, not science.
The only thing I would consider “dysfunctional” is anything that would cause harm to another person (like being attracted to children, or being sexually aroused by violence to others).
And that is why I find bigotry far more “dysfunctional” than homosexuality. Bigotry causes far more harm to others than homosexuality.
First of all, a variation isn’t always a dysfunction. Hormones do affect who we respond to sexually, and that is a variation in the continuum of human sexuality. Just like there are variations in skin color, height, physical ability, none of them is incorrect. It’s just what makes us an individual. Secondly, sex isn’t just a physiological process. It has psychological and social components as well. At it’s most basic form, sex is about reproduction, but we as humans have developed a need for it other than reproduction. Our sexuality is part of personality-it motivates more than just our sexual behavior. Sex is recreational, and sexual arousal and intimacy isn’t always about reproduction. We do it because we get turned by one thing or another, and it feels good. Sex also has social relevance in how we are assessed in society. Lastly, we aren’t the only species who exhibits an attraction to the same sex, and therefore maybe there is a biological/evolutionary incentive when this happens. Maybe it would help if you searched for a psychological, social, and yes, even biological reason why those individuals who do seek this life/lifestyle, are actually a necessity in our world instead of dysfunctional deviants.
no homosexuality isnt passed on by parents and it just happens by nature. the environment affects what sex whoever will be attracted to