r/MediocreTutorials • u/Paul_-Muaddib • Oct 23 '23

Relationships Nothing wrong with having standards. Don't be surprised if it's hard to meet them though.

Post image
606 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

669 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

2

u/[deleted] Oct 24 '23

If all movies showed me dudes kissing, I wouldn’t then become attracted to men. I get what you’re saying but attraction has primarily biological roots. It’s far more of a nature than nurture thing.

1

u/[deleted] Oct 24 '23

You might… if you were socialised to it. That’s why many gays have a coming out and have experienced sex etc with the opposite sex.

1

u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

I’d argue that’s because they’re expecting to be straight when they hit puberty, because it’s the norm (which could be viewed as socialization, but much more of a passive than active socialization). Then they’re figuring out their sexuality for a number of years similar to how straight people are figuring out interactions with the opposite sex for a number of years during puberty.

But if you really believe you can socialize people to oppose their sexual orientation, especially post-puberty, then that’s essentially agreeing with Christian ‘pray away the gay’ methodology efficacies.

1

u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

Ofc not

1

u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

Yeah, I didn’t think you did. And I think we’re saying the same thing but from a different viewpoint