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PSYC227_02 Professor Guidetta October 25th, 2017 ‘Born This Way’? This article discusses the extents scientist and society would go to prove if homosexuality or sexuality orientation in general, is fluid or we’re just ‘born with it’. I personally think we are in a world today that looks for proof against the way we perceive things, and I honestly believe if people think our sexuality is something we choose or something imbedded in our brain that it can be “treated” or “controlled”. I think the ‘born this way’ movement does a good job of bringing normal, and that there's a whole community that will support them no matter what. Some people may think, sexuality is fluid and not innate because they look at bixesuals or women who have interest for both men and women but identify as straight. The idea that a man can go from being sexually attracted to a woman and having intimate relationships with them and to go and do the same with a man, gives people the idea that people can change their identity to ‘choose’ who they’re attracted to. I think society now a days wants to set definitions and rules to everything we do. If it's not punishing us from liking someone of the same sex, to punishing us for wanting to like both sexes, and setting this idea that we're only supposed to be attracted to one sex. When some men identify themselves as bisexual, society already puts them in the ‘gay box’, that if you've had sex with a man you are automatically gay, and you're just being indecisive. But if a woman who identifies herself as heterosexual or bisexual is seen making out with another woman, she is praised for it and she becomes this whole ‘sex’ symbol for men. I think being sexually attracted to a human being is all about pleasure, personal preferences, or expressions of love and affection, not about social rules and definitions. I don’t think There

should have to be a reason as to why I feel the way I do about myself, or the feeling and emotional attractions I have towards a person of the same sex. I don’t know if sexual orientation is fluid or fixed, as much as many research prove that it is a biological thing or constructed by our environment, there is no way of us knowing unless we are in these people’s shoes. I then again think sexuality is an uncovered feeling or state of being that we come to learn and explore about ourselves when we have the opportunity to. And if we discover and learn that we do not like a person of the opposite sex or the same sex, then that's our way of finding out what our interests are. Just how we explore different types of music or foods before we decide on our favorite. The idea that gender identity is something embedded in our chromosomes or hard wired in our brains, it is just simply for people to generalize or rationalize why homosexuals are the way they are or to act upon it and say it can be “reversed” or “prevented” from birth. It maybe crucial for some people to have facts or a reason for everything, to prove it is ‘normal’ or okay. Some parents maybe okay and accepting of their child’s sexuality if they are told they were born that way it is part in their DNA or so on, but in reality they are okay with that explanation, not of their child's own representation of themselves. It were simply or acceptable enough for people to just say they like someone of the same sex because they are sexually attracted to them just because, I don’t think it would be taken in consideration the same way if I were to say I was ‘born’ a man or woman in the wrong body. It is the way it is, we can’t explain or prove if a God exists or if there’s even an after -life, yet we still believe in it and choose to be okay with it....