Philosophy : What is gay?

What is gay?

You might get attacked by a dog as a child and develop a lifelong fear of dogs. But maybe another child doesn't develop that fear. Maybe something in their brain determines it.

“Maybe something in their brain determines it.” Certainly it does.

Nothing a parent does directly affects your personality. You already have to be receptive to any guidance, punishment, reward. This is the ground we are on.

If instead of turning gay long absences from women made you crave chocolate? Just something to think about. How might history have unfolded differently?

He chooses to do it but other people would not. This man on the island. Where does his choice come from? Not a voice from above or below. His brain and his brain alone.

What is the proximate cause of his homosexuality? Sexual desire or not? Does homosexuality have to involve sexual desire? What does it even mean to be gay?

Here we have defined homosexuality to be the act of sex with another man. We are not humoring “men who have sex with men.”

We are not going to work out an equation for homosexuality and be able to say, "This is gay, that is not."

We could try but we would fail. There would be edge cases that the equation misses. We must consider them separately or not at all.

Is a transman who has sex with men gay?

If you could hypnotize a man to feel sexual desire for men would they then be gay? For transmen?

What about after they exit hypnosis and no longer feel that desire? Are they still gay or are they cured? Does one indiscretion doom us?

What if there is a trigger that will cause them to reenter hypnosis? Are they gay? Latently gay?

What if it is self-hypnosis? That seems perilous.

If you could install a chip in their brain to make them feel sexual desire for men would they be gay?

If such a chip existed and a straight man requested the installation of the chip would the act of requesting it mean he is gay?

What if a man voluntarily has the chip installed but never activates it?

If a man was an utter hedonist and had sex with men without feeling desire would he be gay?

If a man did desire to suck dick but only because he liked the feel of a dick in his mouth, nothing sexual about it, would he be gay?

If a man did have a sexual desire to suck dick, but only dog dick, would he be gay?

If a man has a desire to suck transman ersatz dick is he gay?

Most people would say sucking one dick makes a man gay. Go directly to jail; do not pass go. Very few will place that number higher. But if we examine closer we can ask at what point prior to sucking the dick does he maybe become gay?

Is it when the idea first germinates? Who among us has not entertained the idea as a mere flight of fancy? A game we play with ourselves. Maybe some men are predisposed to act on that idea. For some the idea never enters but they are always just as capable.

Maybe that point of ruin is when he finally, irrevocably decides to act. But do we really believe in decision? It was always written.

If a man has a desire to suck dildos but not real dicks is he gay?

If a man is sexually aroused by the smell of a man, but has no sexual desire towards men, is he gay?

If a man enjoys imagining himself having sex with men but would be repulsed by the actual physical act, is he gay?

If a man enjoys watching men have sex with men but has no desire to partake, is he gay? Can we so easily separate gay sex from a respectable sport such as wrestling? Of course not. One follows from the other. They are both Greek inventions.

If a man desires to do something that seems sexual but you're not really sure and it's physically impossible anyway, like live inside a man's penis, is he gay? A transman's penis?

If a man marries a woman and raises a family inside another man’s penis then who could accuse him of homosexuality? It would seem absurd but we all know of such cases.

What if a man wants to sew together a bunch of penises to make an anatomically female sex doll and have sex with it? Is that gay? In this case I think if you used transpenises it would be obviously not gay.

I think that is an easy call but the rest are not so.

Is the desire to create and have sex with that doll innate? It seems like it would be the manifestation of different desires interacting with the environment. On some level it is all innate but change the environment and it never happens.

We can have innate desires that have not been awakened. We are just beyond reach of a counterfactual world but if we could touch it that might make all the difference.

Feelings are a base that is available to consciousness which other things build upon.

If it were male you would be repulsed by it. You would say, "That is sinful."

Re: What is gay?

Hi, PE.

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Have we met?

Re: What is gay?

I'll respond to you later. I like your little essays but its long. Apparently that's Mauricio.

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