So how do you explain wet dreams then?

Doesn't have a brain but it thinks? That's got to be an oxymoron right?

Sorry noodle, I wasn't picking on you. Just those couple of points made me giggle. ;)

Leaky roof? Not masturbating enough? Cate Blanchett? The list goes on and on.

Most likely has something to do with moving out last year's model for the new one's, don't want to get backed up down in those pipes during a dry spell:D

foot...I don't think there's a conscious decision in any of those choices is there? Well...except the not masturbating enough, but even then, the wet dream is the result of prior action not being taken rather than a conscious decision. ;)

Now we're getting into physiological processes here. It's like asking whether or not sweating is a concious decision because you choose to put yourself in a warm environment...:3eye:

See? that's why he's an engineer and I'm not. :) He thinks of these things

Well if you put it that way, of course you can avoid putting yourself in situations where you might sweat if you want to. I guess if that's true, then in order to avoid wet dreams, one only has to masturbate more. I'm pretty sure that was the original suggestion in my statement though.

I don't think sweating or masturbating has much to do with whether one is gay or not though.

The way a person's brain is developed or "hardwired" often effects their behavior, some people tend to be more artistic, and then some are more mathamatical. Some enviromental factors play into this and some genetics, but if you are inclined to be a certain way then you have no choice...if you want to be different then you can choose to try and act otherwise. But this can lead to serious self esteem issues and depression.

They experiment because there is curiosity and most likely an attraction to other girls, after the experimenting they might discover that they aren't really that interested, or they might discover that they are. I've known many women who were with men before they discovered or aknowledged that they were gay. I think that some people do choose to be exclusively with one sex or the other when they are truley bi, I am bi but I choose to be with a man, only, I want a nuked family.
And then there are others who are only attracted to the same or opposite sex. You can't choose to be gay, you can choose whether or not you are going to act gay.

Lets go back to the times where gays were punished with well.....death. Who in there right mind would choose to be gay and live the rest of their lives as an exile.

I am also confident in a decade or so it will be proven that homoesexuality is genetic. I am sure some people do choose to be gay but the majority are decided through their genes.

Well put.

I don't think we're going to have any great revelations past where we are now, only it will become public fact instead of accepted scientific theory. Predispositions are genetic, triggers are environmental, the combination of these two determines our desires and personality. We have control over how we express these in public and to a large degree how much they impact how we live our lives. Past that I don't think there's a hell of a lot more to add.

What we are likely to see emerge in the next decade or two is an more exact understanding of where these triggers exist and how they work. This can then spin into any number of possible senarios. Traditionalists will attend lectures on how to avoid having their children exposed to environmental triggers. Progressives will protest that controlling these experiences is unethical. I don't think the core debate will change much through all this however. The most extreme outcome I can see is the possibility of a pharmaceudical product that would act on a persons phermone receptors at puberty and give a very strong push in either direction desired. Since all this is really determined by environmental and internal chemical signals I can see this as completely within the realm of possibility, but I'm withholding all comments about the implications...

Countries with issues of overcrowding and poor interior design will add said drug to their water supply...?