Should people be forced to choose their sexual preference?
by 
Halliburton Shill
ANSWERS: 29
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While they should know it, no. No one should be forced to label themselves if they are not ready to do so. Labeling can be very dentrimental, and it should be delt with in a cautious manner.
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No. I think the word preference says it all.
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How can you force something like that? Personally I prefer to have sex with a person, but that's just me. Anything else is either ultimately unfulfilling or just plain weird.
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I don't understand that answer. I used "sexual preference" simply because it's the common phrase, not to suggest anything. Read the question as: Should people be forced to have sex with a certain person or gender regardless of biological attraction. Thanks for trying.
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FORCED? no. it could be helpful to choose but i dont think one should have to.
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I don't think that it would work if someone tried to force someone else to feel or think a certain way.
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I'm not really sure what's being asked. If you're talking about declaring one's sexual preference, I would say no. I'm a very private person and would absolutely DIE if details of my personal life were bantered about like this morning's headlines. I also find labeling is a bad thing, harmful and inaccurate. It takes a bit of experimentation before one is ready to commit, I think (of course, there are people who are born and die-hard on both sides that would gladly kick my @$$ for saying so). And I know I wouldn't want to share all my business before I knew for sure what I liked. There's a very convoluted, probably somehow offensive answer (this being why I don't usually answer questions like this). Hope it helped.
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No, of course not. That's ridiculous. You can't "force" someone to be something they are not. Sexual orientation is not a choice...nor is it something that's learned or "caused." We are all born genetically pre-disposed to one orientation or another. If you mean should those that are gay being forced to be straight (as in the so-called "reparative therapy" that homophobes claim can "cure" us), then, again...of course not. Trying to force someone to be something they are not only causes emotional/psychological damage and makes no one happy except for the person who tried to "force" them to change in the first place. No one can be happy living a lie.
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I don't understand how I can choose any naturally occurring aspect of my make-up. I didn't get to choose my height, my gender, the colour of my eyes or the colour of my hair, so I don't see how I could choose a particular sexuality - I just am what I am, as is everybody else.
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No, absolutely not. Sexuality is completely personal and it shouldn't be up for discussion, nor forced upon anyone else.
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Sure, why we are at it we should also force people to choose a religion, an ethnicity, and we should also force people back into slavery... We could populate the world with white, protestant, straight, American, republican males. Then I am going to move to Mars...
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Nobody should be forced to choose anything unless their choice includes ceasing criminal behaviour. If anyone tries to call homosexuality criminal, they are showing themselves to be an ass. Furthermore sexual preference is not a choice.
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You can't "choose" your sexual preference! You may experiment with sex but unless you are naturally bisexual, then you will either get horny for the opposite sex (heterosexual) or will get get horny for the like sex (homosexual).
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No, this is impossible, since this is inborn. You cannot "choose" whom you are attracted to, only with whom you will have relations. But don't believe me - believe the tens of thousands of scientists of the AMA and APA, who as a group state that being LGBT is inborn, not a "choice," and cannot change.
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You can't force people to choose their sexual preference.
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there's no choosing, it's there, it's always been there, and it will always be there, even after one is dead, they are still who they are
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No. How could you enforce it? Besides that... no matter what a person's sexual orientation is, they are still a person. It doesn't change who they are. Here's an example. This guy I know has a boyfriend. This girl behind him complains about gay people and says she hates them, but she actually thinks this guy is really cool. We've joked about it after class a couple times. "If only she knew..." Yeah. She thinks he's cool and she accepts him for him.... but that one thing she doesn't know would change her opinion drastically. My point is that no matter what your sexual orientation is, you are still a person, just like everyone else. :)
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I don't really like the term "preference". If I say I prefer men, it sounds like I'm saying I like both but I like one more than the other. Which is true in to some extent, but my decision to come out as gay is based on the fact that i have no sexual desire for any women. I don't know what it's like for bisexuals, but as a homosexual, if I'm forced to have sex with women, then surely that's nothing short of rape.
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No, and unfortunately that's the hand the fundamental religious movement is trying to play. You can be homosexual or you can spend eternity with God -- it's up to you. They are, in essence, forcing a decision from an individual: Burn in hell or choose this sexual orientation. In the end, it won't work as the matter seems to be largley a genetic one and not a choice at all.
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and who would do the forcing?
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NO. the world wants to label us all because it makes it easier to fit people into boxes. you are who you are. why should i have to label myself ANYTHING just to make gossiping about me simpler?
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People should not be *forced* to do absolutely anything.
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They are forced, by nature. Not much of a choice tho
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there's not really a such thing as preference. There's only orientation
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No, I cant see how anyone could force another to have a certain sexual preference, it just happens, naturally.
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People's sexual preference is determined at birth, whether they are gay or not? Many gay men have tried marriage with a woman, only to be unhappy, not to mention the wife's devastation! No one should be forced to choose. I thnk gays should have an easier time with who they are and not have to pretend! But there are so many homophobic people out there, it is hard for them.
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Never. Let people follow their own path of discovery!
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ehh no, its like telling me that we have to make people say 'YES I AM FAT' or something like that, some people want to live in denial and we have to respect it.
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No. Let life unfold as it will. Pressure forces and unreal decisons are made,mostly to fit in.BE YOURSELF!!!
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