Quote Originally Posted by Laddy View Post
I don't think someone can be "made" gay. I just don't. The idea is quite absurd. You can't instill that kind of biological urge in place over another. Trust me, I people could be made gay I'd be an even bigger slut.
You don't see any place for psychological impact on sexual preferences? This goes well beyond just heterosexuality/homosexuality, but any desire, sexual or otherwise. It is all so completely caught up in psychological needs that to suggest there can be no post-birth impact is what sounds absurd. Note that this would not make sexual preference any more of a "choice" than the "choice" to like certain foods. It's about what sends pleasurable signals to your brain, which there is no conscious control over. My point is only that that can change (not often and certainly not easily as one grows older, but possibly).

Obviously people being "made gay" (or "made straight") is absurd, at least in the context Amanda's father used it. We cannot predict how every single child will react to certain stimulus. But the whole genetics vs. choice dichotomy has always struck me as false.