What do you mean by "confused"? And I'm simply tentative about the validity of your testimony. I don't think your experiences are universal.
Please... "
sexual orientation" is as standard (or well-defined) a term as you'll encounter. It describes very well what it refers to.
Please, stop making up meanings for words. Some kids are heterosexual and others are homosexual (even bisexual). What you are saying makes no sense.
Ha-Ha!! That is 'some' teens. They do not become "gay", because of peer pressure. Perhaps there are exceptions, but some one (even a teen) being "gay" because of peer pressure isn't common at all.
You need to prove this with more than your opinion. It is an interesting theory, but I have yet to hear most people explain that they are "gay", because the kids in school were into it. I have known more than a few gay guys that pretended to be 'straight' while they were in school (just to avoid the persecution that came with being discovered to have that sexual orientation).
As I said, there are exceptions... but a kid know if they are gay or not. Later in life, those exceptional people may "switch" to the orientation which actually suits them. Even so, I haven't experienced or heard much about the peer pressure which makes kids "gay". Do you have scientific research which supports your position?
A lot of gay people (especially young kids) HIDE their sexual orientation, for the very reason they are handed the baggage to CARRY; stuff from those who are hateful or homophobic. This is well-known. As a kid, I didn't dislike my sexual-orientation... I disliked the reality that other people rejected it. I hid like most kids do (if they can hide it). I was/am a masculine guy... so I covered it almost naturally. What I COULDN'T do very well, was go bonkers for some good looking girl; I had to pretend to be distracted by something else. When guys would talk about females (in that typically interested way), I often nodded quietly, acting cool; but in truth, I had nothing exciting to express about it; females NEVER turned me on. I KNEW that I was a homosexual at age 14.
Sorry, but being "gay" is something that most kids are going to have to grow up with and deal with for the rest of their lives. I spent my time being mostly silent (as described above); but no kid should HAVE to hide that.
Stop it! There is nothing you've shown/proven, which shows that a person's sexual "choices" or "actions" cause them to be gay or straight. If you have such scientific data, then you are far ahead of any research I've ever read on the topic. I can accept that you believe what you are saying, it simply isn't substantiated.
I would agree that many would be better-off as young people, if they hadn't had sex. But of the few things I remember well, having sex was one of them. People weren't feeling guilty about "sex", even in the 1970's. But homosexuality was a definite no-no... though I knew a few gay guys in school. We didn't feel our attractions were wrong, we typically felt
fearful that someone would find out and persecute us. It was about "fear" not "guilt".
Sexual attractions DO NOT work that way, you don't give up being straight, to go gay. Please, stop making things up. You may have experienced something in your little niche which supports your own theories, but what you're saying isn't the way things are for many young people.
I tend to agree, but sorry... the MAJORITY of kids are having sex well before they reach 18 years old. I'm for purity and abstinence, but I know what kids do (I talk to them often, and I was one myself).
Well, people had better start considering teaching more kids how to COPE, because more kids today are having sex than they did when I was coming up.
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