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At what age is a person aware of their sexuality


kvnchrist

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There are 2 issues here that I want to discuss.

 

The first is the age that an average person would know and understand their personal sexual preference. That is the ability to understand love from like and acknowledge their sexual attraction to another.

 

Secondly I would like to see if the following is simple acknowledgement of sexual preferences or a politically motivated exploitation of a minor to move a cause foreword.

 

 

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I just found this picture on Facebook and it irritated me to know end. To me a person that young is incapable of fully comprehending anything as complex as physical and emotional interactions. I think that they understand what they like and what they are comfortable with, but not the differences between liking someone and loving them, in an intimate way.

I think that girls are much more mature about their attractions, but boys are a different story altogether. I think they see girls as being so different that they are repelled by them at a emotional level and they stick together because they are comfortable within their own group.

 

I think if this picture is of the kid that is spoken about here it is the most thoughtless posting anyone could have made. I think that these parents should not take this child's assumptions as genuine until he is much older and more aware of himself. I think they jumped the gun for political reasons and should have let him find his way down the path his nature has for him.

 

Kids being kids, If any one of his schoolmates see that and have parents who are against gays, they could make this kids life miserable by taunting him and bullying him. Bullying has happened before and there are several cases were those being bullied have taken their own life.

I think that there are those out there on both sides of the political spectrum, that are so into showing just how fervent they are to their ideals that they will use anyone or anything to further their agenda. I think, at times these people are so aggressive in their tactics that those who are effected by the blow back from these incidents would rather these people shut up and go away. Such people cause controversy that they, themselves don't have to deal with, so they are uncaring except for they way they perceive themselves. themselves.

Two examples of these overstepping fanatics are The Westborough Baptist church and PETA. They both make a mockery of the ideals of others and give their opposition cover to make unfair blanket statements about either side.

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When I was 7 I had no idea even what gay was. I was too busy pretending that I'm Harry Potter and playing Crash Bandicot.

 

I figured out that I'm gay at an early age, 11 or so when puberty hits, but never actually consciously realized it or knew that it had a term in itself. I thought that, you know, I liked guys, I had no idea that it's a big deal. Then a few years later, once I learned what homosexuality was and sexuality in general, I became panicked and anxious all the time, because it apparently WAS a big deal. That was around my 15's. I'm 18 now, out to my close family and friends, happily have a boyfriend and I love him.

 

On the topic of bullying.

 

One way or another, you will have emotional and mental pain. Being closeted means that you have to unwillingly live your day-to-day life with a mask on, nobody knows who you truly are and you're anxious about it all the time. It's like wearing a huge bag of stones with you everywhere you go. If you're outed, chances are you'll get bullied and left out, which is the same thing really just in a different way.

 

And the only agenda that I'm planning is to get married and have a family.

 

Class 1 taking over the world master plan isn't it?

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The picture you found on Facebook was obviously meant to irritate people because anyone regardless if they are straight or gay shouldn't be sexually active at the age of 7.... it would seem more realistic that the image was purposely created to troll and exploiting some ones else's child postering them in a sick web motivational poster created to cause emotional distress and obviously to enrage response... No good parent in their right mind would exploit their own child like that on the web even if it was the truth... I would be outraged if I saw a picture of 7 year old girl where as if the caption said "My daughter is openly having sex. She is seven. And I am proud of her!"

 

Though, I wouldn't really know about any "Gay Agenda"... but there sure is an "agenda" to try to abolish oral sex and sodomy in some states through local legislation....

 

Current Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli is a Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia for the 2013 election. He is running on a platform that right out stigmatizes homosexuality and any sexual activity that does not lead to a couple having a baby.

 

What is more dangerous than bullies is a potential elected government official demagoging people of a states community through legislation encouraging the populous around them to think of them as unacceptable members of society based on ones own personal ideological beliefs. If anyones agenda is "gay", it's Ken Cuccinelli's (no pun intended)....

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Back on topic......

 

There's no way to answer either question accurately, people develop at very different rates although seven does seem very early, you have to wonder if he'll feel the same way in five or six years time, not that it really matters.

 

Without knowing anything about the parents it's hard to comment on the image, it does seem like a very odd thing to do, maybe they're just being overprotective?

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they will use anyone or anything to further their agenda

You believe in the gay agenda? Seriously?

 

Do not put words in my mouth and don't dismiss a possible use of a child by an adult. This is a child, not an issue.

 

This is an individual situation that may place a child in danger by a person or group of persons. My thoughts is it might be an uber liberal trying to show just how tolerant they are by being the first person on their block with a gay kid. It wouldn't be the first time people on the extreme left or right have used children to push a political agenda. I'm not talking a concerted effort by a movement, but a small fringe trying to make brownie points with those they rub elbows with at starbucks.

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Think the Gay Agenda is a mixed bag , some who do see it as their agenda and some who see it as a civil/sexual rights thing . As for the boy I do think it unwise to label him at such an early age . Imagine if it is only the lil boy " I dont like girls thing" this could mess him up when he does start to become aware of his sexuality , not a smooth move by his parents.

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You say It wouldn't be the first time people on the extreme left or right have used children to push a political agenda, yet you uploading and reposting the actual image on this forum thread puts you at just as much at fault for the exploitation of this child, agenda or not...

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