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Can your sexuality dynamically shift between Straight/Bi/Gay/Asexual... or is it kinda a fixed deal?
Yes... with intense focus, i can become any sexual orientation i like! 35%  35%  [ 11 ]
No... I may be confused but I am what I am. 65%  65%  [ 20 ]
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17 Aug 2007, 12:51 pm

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I tried to change my sexuality for years, and it didn't work. So, no. Not for me. And I doubt many people can, although I don't know that no one can. Unlike some ret*ds, I don't claim to know everything about other people's sexuality. :wink:


I just finished my psychology class at the community college and one of the last things we studied were motivations and emotions. Part of that chapter was about the sex drive and sexual orientations. If it makes you feel better, many psychologists and sociologists are turning down the ever-popular idea that one becomes homosexual through social learning. In psychology, I learned that sexual orientation is something that one discovers about his/herself. Also remember that sexual attraction usually doesn't start until around age ten and up.

I know all that.



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17 Aug 2007, 12:52 pm

Nice to see you around Yosshie!


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17 Aug 2007, 12:55 pm

Sopho wrote:
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I tried to change my sexuality for years, and it didn't work. So, no. Not for me. And I doubt many people can, although I don't know that no one can. Unlike some ret*ds, I don't claim to know everything about other people's sexuality. :wink:


I just finished my psychology class at the community college and one of the last things we studied were motivations and emotions. Part of that chapter was about the sex drive and sexual orientations. If it makes you feel better, many psychologists and sociologists are turning down the ever-popular idea that one becomes homosexual through social learning. In psychology, I learned that sexual orientation is something that one discovers about his/herself. Also remember that sexual attraction usually doesn't start until around age ten and up.

I know all that.

Some people don't, or don't want to know. :roll:


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17 Aug 2007, 12:56 pm

greenblue wrote:
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Sopho wrote:
I tried to change my sexuality for years, and it didn't work. So, no. Not for me. And I doubt many people can, although I don't know that no one can. Unlike some ret*ds, I don't claim to know everything about other people's sexuality. :wink:


I just finished my psychology class at the community college and one of the last things we studied were motivations and emotions. Part of that chapter was about the sex drive and sexual orientations. If it makes you feel better, many psychologists and sociologists are turning down the ever-popular idea that one becomes homosexual through social learning. In psychology, I learned that sexual orientation is something that one discovers about his/herself. Also remember that sexual attraction usually doesn't start until around age ten and up.

I know all that.

Some people don't, or don't want to know. :roll:
That's because they're too busy praying. And f*****g donkeys.



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17 Aug 2007, 1:10 pm

You know what?

I learned that I am NOT homophobic, but I am Christian.

In sociology, I learned that homophobic is not exactly the right word to use when explaining my SMALL AND MINOR fear. Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual. I also learned that prejudice is the feeling and the emotion and discrimination is the behavior. I am going to admit right now that I am a latent bigot in a few places, especially in stereotyping. Latent bigot is someone who is prejudice, but doesn't discriminate. So now I know and I now apologize for admitting a few months ago that I was homophobic. It wasn't the right word.

I also learned that you were right all along about discovering one's sexual orientation, especially after taking sociology and psychology at the community college. I just think that for a lot of people, due to bigotry, sexual orientations are VERY touchy subjects, which is why I'm always afraid of talking about it.


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17 Aug 2007, 1:13 pm

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Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.



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17 Aug 2007, 1:22 pm

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Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?


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17 Aug 2007, 1:23 pm

That means that our friend raggy is homophobe?


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17 Aug 2007, 1:25 pm

Ragtime wrote:
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Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

More like Raggophobe :P


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17 Aug 2007, 1:26 pm

greenblue wrote:
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Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

More like Raggophobe :P


No, she hates me because I serve and represent God; she's a theophobe.


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17 Aug 2007, 1:30 pm

Ragtime wrote:
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Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

No. I just think your religion is ret*d.



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17 Aug 2007, 1:30 pm

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That means that our friend raggy is homophobe?

Yep.



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17 Aug 2007, 1:30 pm

greenblue wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
Sopho wrote:
Yoshie777 wrote:
Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

More like Raggophobe :P

I don't like sheep-shagging perverts.



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17 Aug 2007, 1:31 pm

Ragtime wrote:
greenblue wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
Sopho wrote:
Yoshie777 wrote:
Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

More like Raggophobe :P


No, she hates me because I serve and represent God; she's a theophobe.

No, it is because of your homophobe arguments, I thought you knew.


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17 Aug 2007, 1:31 pm

Ragtime wrote:
greenblue wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
Sopho wrote:
Yoshie777 wrote:
Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

More like Raggophobe :P


No, she hates me because I serve and represent God; she's a theophobe.

I don't hate you. I don't have enough respect for you to hate you. I find you disgustingly perverted. And I feel sorry for you. You need to seek professional help for your mental illness.



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17 Aug 2007, 1:32 pm

greenblue wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
greenblue wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
Sopho wrote:
Yoshie777 wrote:
Homophobia is violence and discrimination against one who is homosexual.

There are different levels of homophobia. Even someone who is gay themselves can be homophobic.


Are you a latent theophobe, Soph?

More like Raggophobe :P


No, she hates me because I serve and represent God; she's a theophobe.

No, it is because of your homophobe arguments, I thought you knew.

lol Yeah, I know people who are Christian but not ret*d. I like them. ie. Kim is Christian. Is she an as*hole? No. Therefore I like her. I also dislike ret*d atheists.