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[–]censorshipment 27 insightful - 5 fun27 insightful - 4 fun28 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Sexuality i.e. sexual orientation isn't a choice.

Sexual desire i.e. lust isn't a choice.

Sexual activity is a choice (where people have bodily autonomy).

[–]SexualityCritical[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If this is true, the implication would be that asexuality is impossible for most people, that genes compel a person to experience sexual lust. This would, likewise, mean that someone's desires are divorced from ideology, that they have no beliefs about a certain sexualised thing/person, but rather that something biological automatically causes them to feel a certain way. If choice isn't involved in such experiences, sensual or internally artistic, it would mean that someone is frequently being psychologically attacked, that they feel the way they do due to their genetics compelling them to, even if they don't like it whatsoever. If they do like it, however, that can only be because of ideology. If someone doesn't like sexuality, their experiences of it must be truly horrific. Or, is it the case that they're not actually experiencing sexuality, or 'sexual arousal,' but, rather, their genitals are moving in accordance with a certain, specific, OCD fixing arrangement of things, which causes blood to be pumped to such genitals? The same reason any genital movement occurs in non-sexual scenarios.

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This follows correctly up until "Or, is it the case that they're not actually experiencing sexuality," where you lost me.

Example of your psychological assault: people who non-volitionally desire pre-pubescent children, pedophilia. Many of them experience great distress over this, not all of them act on it. Some pedophiles are perfectly happy molesting children.

Yes, we have compulsions, not just organs. You have a stomach. It is not enough to have a stomach, you need a compulsion to put things into it. It is not just enough to have sex organs, we need a compulsion to use them. Without the compulsion, the organism dies and dies out, respectively.