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Sexual Orientation Isn’t A Choice.
Human beings cannot choose to be either straight or gay. Just as what the Human Right Campaign Organization wrote on their website, “…Sexuality and gender identity are not choices any more than being left-handed or having brown eyes or being heterosexual are choices. They are a part of who you are.” Although individuals can choose how they live or whether to act or not on their feelings, experts do not consider sexual orientation to be a conscious choice that can be changed whenever you want to.
If you’re not yet convinced, though, try to ask straight people when did they choose to be heterosexual? Or better yet, ask yourself when did you decide to be a heterosexual or homosexual? Can you give a quick answer? No. And the same is true when you ask other people, they will completely unable to answer that question. Why? Simple. Because these people understand that their sexual orientation is natural – and not something that they choose.
And just think about those gay people who were forced by their parents to become straight. Most of them, even if they have tried to become what their parents wanted them to become – just to please them – they still remain homosexuals. Even if they have been put under pressure and things like that, they still remain gay. Just as what the lyrics of the controversial song, Same Love, say, “I can’t change even if I tried…even if I wanted to…”
As mentioned, we can choose how we want to live our lives and even express ourselves in a way that makes us feel comfortable, but our sexual orientation – our inner identity – is something that is beyond our control.
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Homosexuality is a Function of Biology: Here’s the Science
There are other studies demonstrating that biology plays a major role in determining a person’s sexuality and one example is the pheromone study conducted in Sweden. This study was conducted by the researchers of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, led by Dr. Ivanka Savic. Dr. Savic and her team used 36 subjects that were divided into three groups of 12 each: heterosexual men, homosexual men, and heterosexual women. Each of them was asked to sniff series of odors while their brain activities were being scanned. And the results of the research were the following: When the homosexual men and heterosexual women were exposed to the smell of testosterone, a part of their brain that plays a role in sexual response was activated. Same happened when the heterosexual men were exposed to the smell of estrogen.
Another study was the Eye Blink Inhibition study conducted by Dr. Qazi Rahman and his team in London. They collected and studied different groups of individuals to determine if there are differences between the responses of male and females, as well as of heterosexuals and homosexuals. The subjects were exposed to different levels of noise while researchers measured their eye-blink responses. After the test, Dr. Rahman and his team found out that “the reaction of the lesbian test subjects was closer to that which would be expected among straight men. And, gay men reacted closer that of women, although to a lesser extent.”
These findings clearly show that sexual orientation is biological, fixed, not learned, and not a choice.
