ageedizzleWhat’s your most controversial opinion?
https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/563749/whats-your-most-controversial-opinion
selokichtliHeterosexuality is not natural.
OmegaMouseDo you mean like, if society wasn’t a thing people would be attracted to everyone?
Yes, more or less. It’s a spectrum forced or pressed to the extremes, if it wasn’t, I think a lot of more people would consider themselves somewhat pansexual.
It sounds like you are making the argument that sexuality is nuture, not nature…I am not sure how I feel about that. I suppose it must be both to some and that there would definitely be significantly more gay, lesbian, bi, etc. folks if society didn’t socialize us to be hetero by default.
I think what they’re getting at is that they think nobody is a perfect 0 on the Kinsey scale.
There are perfect zeros in the Kinsley scale, and even without the social mechanisms in place to encourage heterosexuality I’d expect them to be. I just think they would be closer to extreme cases and not to the mode.
So not necessarily that heterosexuality is unnatural but rather that strict heterosexuality is?
I was playing with the word ‘natural’. Of course, everything that happens is natural, heterosexuality is as natural as homosexuality and pansexuality because it happens. But yes, I believe straight heterosexuality would be pretty rare without all the social mechanisms in place to encourage it.
Most and more.