The context on naked street running was my earlier posts in this thread, where I expressed a number of views typical of your Angry Young Man, which honestly sound like a Grumpy Old Boomer these days. As for actual naked street running, my most recent experience was parking in Philadelphia during the middle of Pride and they towed my car to make room for the street activities (which I luckily found - they had merely 'relocated' it instead of impounding it). Definitely some straight naked street running going on. But after going through my old posts and reading my old views, despite whatever degree of 'technically correct' I clearly felt at the time, they were mean, unhelpful, and not what I think today. I am thankful though that I got to express them in a place like SEN where we largely don't murder each other for having different views. If I can remember back to why I had such a poor view on this topic back then, I remember a lot of it seeming like other folks were dictating that you could only be good person if you were some variety of LGBTQ, or went around proclaiming the virtues of being LGBTQ, which I am not (or at least I'm far enough down the straight end of the spectrum to not consider myself so). I was in college at the time I think, with a lot of folks around me 'discovering themselves' and also being angry about life, and I think I was probably backlashing against that. Not meant to be a justification, just an explanation, for anyone who might be interested in how a person's views can change.

Question to all gay people: is being gay a choice?

Did you at some point in your life choose to be gay or did you always know you were gay?

If you always knew you were gay, does that mean people are born gay possibly as a result of some sort of set of genes?

And does this mean could this create an ironic situation of where as a society we are more accepting of gay people, and that means gay people don't have to pretend to be straight and have children, thus passing on their genes, that this could result in gay people dying out as they begin reproducing less?

Predicted counterreply: gay people can still have biological children. Answer: Yes they can still have children but only through expensive artificial means or rare societal arrangements, which would still have an aggregate effect of being less common than previously.

No. It's more like something you come to terms with. You start with doing what other people do, meet girls, try stuff, whatever. You discover it doesn't work out. Basically pp doesn't go up, but it goes up when there's an attractive guy, and not consciously. It's the same with smells as well, not just looks. It's the same as how straight people find out they are straight but with extra steps. It's not some kind of "going against the grain" choice like some people will have you believe.


From what I understand it's a combination of factors such as genes, the development process in the womb (immune system, hormones, number of older siblings, etc.), possibly nurture. I haven't seen anything related to that last one, but I'm also not up to date on recent studies.

Gay people usually prefer adoption over artificial insemination for raising children, since often times blood relations don't have as much significance due to... well, reasons I'm sure you can imagine.

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No. They fought the constructs of their society to realize who they are.

Maybe 20 years ago, yeah. Probably more so the opposite now.

20 years ago when it was accepted in the US and UK versus 60 years ago when it was criminalized in the first-world and is still in many countries today.
Everyone is facing a generalization difference.

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