A Sexual Orientation Paradigm

One of the reasons I began blogging was to clarify and organize my thoughts on topics. I am trying to lay out a systematic approach to the discussing the topic of sexual orientation. Based on my years or research and experience here is what I’m thinking. Yes this is a direct challenge to Queer Theory. Perhaps it might help you in thinking through this.

Part I - Truisms

• Humans are born with an emotional need for belonging, affection and validation.

• Humans are socialized to how to get their emotional needs met.

• Until puberty humans do not develop a biological urge to have sex, though children are socialized to act in ways that mimic an internal sex drive.

• By the time humans are aware of their sexual urges, they have already been socialized on how to express them and how to get them met.

• The socialization process is vastly complex, too complex to systemize.

• Genetically carried traits significantly impact the how the socialization impacts emotional and sexual desire.

• Humans can get their emotional and sexual needs met from the same person (or type of person) or from deferent people (or types of people)

Part II - Implications

• Prior to the onset of puberty, children do not have sexual needs; thus they do not have sexual preferences. What is often interpreted as early sexual orientation is the development of gender based patterns in meeting emotional needs.

• When people say “Sexual Preferences” it usually is meant to mean several components of emotional attraction as well as sexual attraction; however, and there is reason to suggest all the different types of attraction will line up with one person, one gender or one group.

• Emotional/Sexual attractions nearly always change over the life cycle and are impacted by very many things, including but not limited to: societal expectations, availability, life events, values changes and social status.

• Efforts to shape, limit or encourage other peoples sexual/emotional attractions is a futile and often harmful project.

Part III- In Regard to Straight & LBGTQA et al.

• No one is born heterosexual or homosexual because adult sexuality comes with puberty.

• The complex nature of childhood gender role development defies an ability to attribute causes.

• The concept of mono-sexual homosexual (i.e. gay & lesbian) is a socio political construct that is very modern in origin.

• The rise of self-identity based on sexual interests as a common behavior has no precedent in human history and is a result of the decline of traditional ways of identity making (religion, class, family, profession, etc.).

• Sexual identity should be seen to be more about identity and community than it is actually about sexual desires.

• Most people will find themselves emotionally and or sexual attracted to both males and females over their adult life course, nearly half will act on that desire at least once.

• Homoerotic imagery is a key element in mainstream commercial porn to feed and fill the gap between homosexual desires and behaviors.

• Social history shows that absent social prohibitions to the contrary, most people will act on sexual attraction to both sexes

• There is a growing rise in the acceptance of people who do not identify as part of the queer community to occasionally engage in homoerotic behavior.

• The reason the gay/lesbian leadership attack the bisexual identity is that the very existence of bisexuals undermines their claim to be fundamentally “different” based on their perceived unique homosexual urges.

• The proposition that western society could return to the normalizing of bisexual behavior as it was in the Hellenic world undermines Queer Theory which acts like a quasi-religion.

• Hence the L/G leadership insists that humans must be mono-sexual