To: Grainne who wrote (88572 ) 11/17/2004 4:48:33 AM From: epicure Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 108807 Let's not forget (for I did not see it mentioned here, but maybe it was) the structural differences in the brains of gay men (for example) as opposed to their heterosexual compatriots. Gay men have brains that act more like women's brains, leaving one to be highly suspicious that the cause of gay orientation is probably a complex biochemical one, and not some issue of choice. Gay behavior, of course, can be engaged in by anyone, and as we see in jail, lots of heterosexual men engage in it to satisfy their needs, even though their fantasies remain primarily heterosexual. While sexual behavior is a choice- sexual orientation looks like it probably isn't a choice- and how cruel to force homosexuals to act out as heterosexuals (or vice versa) just because society has silly fixations on whom adults should be allowed to love, and act out that love with. While opinions on the homoseuxal/heterosexual debate are often just outgrowths of religious indoctrination, or, on the opposing side, a more tolerant upbringing, science really does have something a bit more meaningful to say on the subject.sciencentral.com And before anyone brings up the INEVITABLE child molestation problem, there are infinitely more men abusing young girls than men abusing young boys, and both situations involve people below the age of consent, are abusive situations, and wrong, and molestation, thought people love to bring it up with homosexuality, has nothing to do with it. If we all had a nickle for every time this subject has come up, and the same old same old posts have been tossed around, we'd all have quite a pile of change.