Homosexuality: Choice or Natural Sexual Orientation?

For many years, the never ending, many-sided debate has consisted of one essential question: Is being gay a choice, or merely another facet of the complex concept of human sexuality? Extensive scientific and sociological research has both played an important role in attempting, once and for all, to arrive at a final conclusion in this heavily-debated subject. In this article, I will attempt to address, both with personal insight as well as scientific research, some of the reasons which many people believe that homosexuality is a choice. This is a combination of my old journal entries from when I first realized I was gay, along with my own research in accepting my homosexuality

Let's examine the choice theory of homosexuality from a society standpoint. Society doesn't discriminate against heterosexuals in the same magnitude as homosexuality. If homosexuality were a choice, who among us would choose to be of the outcast crowd, and subjected to discrimination and hate crimes on an almost daily basis?

Taking the concept of homosexuality being a choice a little further, I ask you, the heterosexual reader, when did you choose to be heterosexual? you didn't. As you entered puberty, you were simply attracted to various aspects of members of the same sex. It is in that same vein that homosexuality exists. We do not choose whom we are attracted to, with whom we want to engage in intimate pleasures. Our genetic makeup chooses this sometime within a few seconds after we are conceived.

One of the most often used defenses of the choice theory of homosexuality is the fact that many people have openly claim to have resisted the natural instinct to engage in homosexual behavior. I have had countless people, both on internet discussion forums and in real life, tell me that they made the choice not to act upon the urges they have had to engage in homosexual behavior. Many people will admit that homosexuality is a natural feeling, but that choosing not to act upon these natural feelings is a choice. I suppose that this is true, and as such, this is one component of the choice theory of homosexuality that I choose not to argue.