Originally posted by Mini D
I think what you're experience is the only type possible and there are no other ways. I'm sure there has never been a woman that was raped as a child and developed a fear or loathing for men as a result. They must all just be naturally atracted to each other. That's it. Afterall... it was natural for you.
Its a fundamentally flawed argument and I don't believe you'd find a single scientist or sociologist that would agree with the "nobody has a choice" philosophy.
MiniD
I'm afraid you'll find that a lot of scientists/sociologists/psychologists will agree with banana. Check out this
psychology module (PS 4203) curriculum at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK for a start.
Do a search for "imprinting" and "ping pong ball" together and you'll come up with Konrad Lorenz, who noticed a duck (or goose - can't remember) that hatched out and was only given a ping pong ball would only follow the ping pong ball and in later life would only have sex with ping pong balls. From this he developed the imprinting theory - that basically sexual preference - and a whole lot more - is determined by what you're exposed to at certain "impressionable" or "imprint vulnerable" times.
Furthermore - even if we accept the argument that it's all a matter of free will, (and you seem to be arguing against yourself somewhat there - by saying it's all free will but it's "only type possible" to choose differently from you) you had no choice over whether you were a boy or a girl, so in a wider sense you still had no control over your "natural" "choice" of liking girls.
And I contend that even the "choice" you made is not as simple as it seems - what
sort of girls do you like? Fat chicks? Big boobs? Tall? Short? Big thighs? Small thighs? Blondes? Redheads? Brunettes? Dom/Sub?in Lingerie? in Leather? in Bikinis? plain old naked?
And what sort of sex? Missionary position? Oral sex? Doggy style? S&M? Cross dressing?
Do tell us - and don't forget to state the reason why you chose those preferences.
Sex amongst primates is a much more complicated affair than the artificial hetero/homo divide would have us believe - and as several sex studies have shown, the majority of what society would deem "aberrant", "deviant" or "perverse" sexual behaviour is fairly normal and consequently "natural" human sexual behaviour.
Phew there that should set us up for at least 500.
