Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.CDN (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Gay by nature or by choice Message-ID: <420@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 21:03:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.420 Posted: Fri Jun 15 21:03:20 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 03:10:49 EDT Organization: UBC Vision, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 24 ------------------------- It's true that some people are gay by nature (and there is nothing wrong with that) but there ARE also those who are gay by choice (the reason being disappointment with the other sex or something else). I feel that if a person is gay by choice, they will probably never find total fulfillment in being gay because they are ignoring a natural need in themselves, i.e., the need for an SO of the other sex. This is a need one is born with (excluding those who are gay by nature) and it won't just disappear. Perhaps it is the unhappiness of some members of the "gay by choice" group plus the overall pressures of being gay which create the impression (in some) that all gays are unhappy and unfulfilled. The truth is usually not at one of the extreme ends of the scale but somewhere in between. Farzin Mokhtarian P.S. I also like to see people carry discussions to the end, but what seems to happen often is that they stop defending their point of view without acknowledging that they have been convinced. That is NOT very polite behaviour. Well, may be they are taking the time to think of better reasons?!