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To: James R. Barrett who wrote (18434)	3/14/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Jim, aren't you confusing preference with action on limited choices? Say you're up late at night with insomnia and you feel like watching television. There's only 1 channel still broadcasting and it is Geraldo. So does watching Geraldo mean that you are no longer a devotee of Rush Limbaugh? I don't think your examples can illustrate what you are trying to prove. And that's not to even mention that your preference of Rush may be derived from genetic predilection. (If you really are a Geraldo fan, I was just trying to illustrate a point. Let me apologize in advance for linking you with Rush unnecessarily.)

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (18434)	3/14/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: anthic p, moorphro	Respond to of 108807

You are terribly confused James. There is a difference between being able to have sex with someone of the same sex and wishing to have sex with someone of the same sex to the exclusion of the opposite sex. Many men in prison who consider themselves heterosexual have sex with other men, but return to women when they get out. Those men are probably fantasizing about women while they have sex with men. Homosexuals sometimes can have sex with women, sometimes they marry women, but they fantasize primarily about men. The nature of our fantasies, the fixation of our sexual identity and the objects of our sexual passions, is probably not a choice. What does is matter if the lesbian and the gay man have sex? She is probably thinking of women and he is thinking of men. If they are really homosexual the stimulus for their arousal wouldn't change. You probably consider yourself heterosexual. Say you are locked up in prison with Bruno, who wants you for his honey. Are you going to be thinking of Bruno or the little woman back home when you have your after bed check sex? Does the fact that Bruno does you make you a homosexual? I would say no. Not even if you get to like it, unless you start to fantasize about Bruno. Then I would have to say you were a latent homosexual anyway.

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (18434)	3/15/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 108807

The question is, can anyone become a homosexual if that person is faced with no alternatives? I'd say the answer is no. BUT such a person may well engage in homosexual activity in the circumstances you describe. Offered an alternative, he or she will revert to heterosexuality. Apparently this is to some extent what happens in prisons. In some, even many, cases, it has to do with domination (and so again isn't really sexual behavior at all); in others it's sparked by a need for affection. Once released, these people take up with members of the opposite sex once again.