Odd, these are the types of things that happen when your body is still going through the main part of puberty. Random arousal. Inability to get rid of said random arousal. Those are the things that happened to me in High School, yes. However, I can walk past a naked woman and not get aroused if I don't want to. Most men I know don't get random arousal anymore. They are jokes of the past(high school). So while all of these things might happen to you, they do not happen to me.
Because(if you want to hear a fun fact), towards the end and after puberty, you gain the control of your manly parts. You don't get those pesky random boners like you used to. You can put yourself in and out of 'that' mood, and it works like that. A usual sign of this is when you stop waking up with 'morning wood'.
I still don't get why you're trying to make me think circulatory + endocrine systems = sexuality. That's not true unless you can show me a paper of research detailing such a thing. I expect you to prove your points if your going to say things that would change how we socially define homosexuality.
Bruh, how you gonna body your own argument... Smh Riker.
Let's break it down line by line.
Very straight forward. In most animals their brain controls their sexual desire with the use of hormones.
Primates are exceptions because we depend(keyword) on personal experience and cultural aspects. Rather than our hormones deciding for us. Meaning how we are raised, our experiences with ***, and our general interactions with both genders.
This line simply talks about how our hormones effect our ability to get aroused by stimuli; In example porn, nudity, etc. That is regardless of what is touching our privates. Meaning, you could be straight, but a dude rubbing your privates would make you aroused.
It's not that it's not your choice, because that would be a very broad statement. Arousal is simply a natural reflex to stimuli. Similar to crying, blinking, and even goosebumps. To say sexuality is a choice would be the more correct of the two(in my opinion) and less broad because we as humans directly choose what stimulates us. To argue that would be, well... I'll let you argue it first Lol.
Which brings us around to my initial statement to you. When it comes to what arouses us as primates, it's very much so a choice. We choose our stimuli(Besides in extreme cases). What you choose to stimulate yourself with is completely and entirely up to you. No one should be able to tell you who or what can stimulate you as it's only natural to be stimulated.
*Sorry if this sounds retarded in some areas, I'm half asleep.
It's not just random bursts of arousal. All cases of arousal, and the reversal of these cases, is caused by blood flow. When you, specifically, are aroused by the opposite gender, it happens because of blood flow, something that can't be controlled. You can put it out of your mind and focus on other things so that your arousal ceases or diminishes, but you can't manually make your blood flowto cause, cease or prevent arousal.
No one is able to put themselves in and out of that mood manually. No one can go "Body, be horny," and it gets horny. It's not like moving a leg or an arm. Stimulation through stimuli is not the same as control.
Sexuality, while not completely ***, consists of it greatly. A large part of *** is arousal. A large part of arousal is blood flow. Every erection is caused by blood flow, whether it be pesky morning wood or genuine preparation for ***. In other words, the circulatory system contributes to sexuality by providing the necessary blood flow to arouse the genitals.
I knew you were gonna focus on that. I saw it too. My point still stands. While human beings' sexuality aren't defined 100% by the endocrine system(I never said it was), it does influence and contribute to sexuality.
Sexual behavior is influenced by the hypothalamus. It stimulates the pituitary gland to release the *** hormones. When levels of those hormones falls, so does sexual desire
This applies to human beings as well. Sexual desire and *** drive are directly affected by hormones released by the endocrine system. Your desire to have *** period is caused by hormones and the changes they make to the body. Your ability to have *** period is caused by these as well.
That line saying that hormones affect our threshold for stimuli does not mean that hormones ONLY affect our threshold for stimuli, that's just one of the many things they do.
If sexuality is a choice, why do people who are bullied, beaten, or killed not simply choose to be straight? If sexuality is a choice, can you tell me the day you sat down and consciously chose to be aroused by men, where you thought to yourself "My options are men, women or both. I pick men" and THEN your body became attracted to men? If it's a choice, can you, right now, choose to be sexually attracted to books, and then choose not to be? We do not choose what does and doesn't stimulate us. Otherwise, people who struggle with porn addiction and want to get better could just turn it off. People who feel necrophiliac or pedophiliac attractions could just turn it off and stop being aroused by it. You yourself pointed out a case where arousal can't be controlled, and yet you claim sexuality can be when arousal plays a large role in it? That's illogical.
