Vote totals:
Yes:
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No:
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Neutral:
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DEBATE: ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
Very few people are completely gay or completely straight
Dr Alfred Kinsey reported that 37% of men had experienced sex with other men to the point of orgasm and that half had experienced mental attraction or arousal towards other men. Anthropologists have found tribes where all young men engage in a homosexual relationship for a certain period of time before becoming heterosexual again. Boys in boarding school and men in prison turn gay for a while. All this evidence points to the fact that sexuality is fluid; that most of us could be attracted to members of the same sex and that the only things which stop us are cultural conditioning, opportunity or need.
The statistic we should be looking at is the one that suggests around 10% of people have had a sexual experience with a member of their own sex. This means that 90% of people haven’t. If only a tenth of people engage in an activity which nine tenths of people don’t then clearly not ‘everyone’ is gay.
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
Society has a very narrow view of gay and straight
We tend to assume that gay people are the ones who sleep with members of their own sex exclusively. We make no account for people who fantasise about gay sex, have one gay experience, or who enter into a short-term relationship with a member of the same sex. If we broaden the definition to include them then we can see that a great many people, maybe even most, flirt with the idea of same-sex sex even if they subsequently return to sleeping with the opposite sex.
One gay experience does not a gay person make. The media portrays images of gay people so often it is natural for people to wonder what gay sex is like. They may even experiment with gay sex, but if they ultimately return to straight sex then they must be straight, not gay.
If you broaden the definition of gay, then of course you can included within it whatever you want.
It is all about identity. If you decide to take into account the "not practicing gays" then you’ve got to take into account the men and women who take part in homosexual activity, but don’t consider themselves gay.
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
Most animals do not identify themselves as exclusively gay or straight
Anyone who has had a dog will recognise its lack of shame in mounting other dogs. Homosexual behaviour has been identified in all species where people have bothered to look. The only animal where there seems to be a problem with this is mankind. We feel the need to label people one way or another when the truth is such labels are constricting and inaccurate.
Dogs mount other dogs for reasons of dominance, not sex. We can hardly assume to understand the reasons of any other gay sexual behaviour witnessed in the animal kingdom. We also don’t know the response of other animals to homosexual behaviour. We don’t know if they are shunned by the pack or not chosen to mate with. We enter into a strange world when we project our behaviour onto animals.
Most animals do not identify themselves, full stop.
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
Gay – Nature or Nurture?
This statement give augurs the debate as to whether being gay is a social construct or someone innate. I personally believe that it is predominantly a natural thing, which is part of our DNA (research done into the matter and glands etc in the brain support this). However, I believe adolescence is a part of any young person’s life to which anything can have a massive influence. Research has shown that children with gay or bi-sexual parents have a higher percentage of being gay or bi-sexual. However, whether this be due to the fact that they feel more free to explore their sexual prowace is another argument.
It may be that we live in a predominantly staright society and that we all have the capacity to be bisexual, however the society we live in has shaped our sexuality….
I personally believe that being gay is unchanging. You are what you are, and you have no choice in the matter. Same as the colour of your skin or your gender.
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
The simple continuation of mankind proves the heterosexuality is predominant
People can have homosexual and heterosexual relationships, if not at the same time then one after the other. Clearly the drive to reproduce is one of the strongest drives we possess. But to suggest this drive can only exist to the exclusion of homosexuality is absurd. This again is a product of the thinking that people are either one way or the other. They are either gay or straight. When the truth is they can be both.
If people were predominantly gay then there would be no procreation and mankind would die out. The evidence to the contrary – in face the ever expanding number of people on the planet – proves most people are straight.
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
Where are all the gay shops, gay TV programmes?
Many people may be in denial about their gay status, society also strongly rewards anti-gay behaviour. Therefore, it is hard for people to overtly support any gay ventures. Having said that the viewing figures for such programmes as Will and Grace, the following that openly gay television presenters attract and the ever-growing influence of gay culture indicates that people are increasingly willing to accept the gay within.
If most people are gay surely capitalism would have developed mechanisms to meet their needs. We know there’s a whole gay subculture so why aren’t the supposed majority of people who are gay catered for too? In fact, the lack of such provision and the fact that gay television and gay shops attract small audiences and much criticism proves that society rejects behaviour it does not identify with.
ARE MOST PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT GAY?
Gay people are going to hell.
BBUURENFOJFAOEDNAKFSDJASD Jew Chaz
