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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (624360)	8/14/2011 4:34:14 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576421

Good grief, I don't know how you can become gay. Why would you want to?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (624360)	8/14/2011 6:10:59 PM
From: Taro	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576421

Is becoming an alcoholic or not a choice? Yes, I believe choice is a large part of it, maybe as much as 50%. And yes, in settling down as a gay I believe the same. Obviously Oscar Wilde was a quite normal hetero for a long time with wife, kids et all. Still he 'came out' (as you call it, while thus assuming he really always had been gay in heart and bottom body), when he run into an attractive young lad... The Greeks made the general choice of having families with kids with women (their wifes!) while dedicating their sex escapades - or at least general narratives of those - to young beautiful boys. "Best in their teens" as Platon described it. Did that make most ancient Greeks gays??? No, by choice and by fashion, being gay was the thing. Just like among certain (self declared) 'superior circle individuals' of our days. Being gay has come into fashion and fighting that in our days has become just as backwards as fighting global warming. /Taro