Re: Someone Help Me! I Was Raped
I know someone who is very attracted to women, but his first sexual experience was with a man, so he is more comfortable having sex with men. The thought of being with a woman excites him so much he is afraid of performance anxiety. So he just keeps getting into relationships with guys over and over. I would say that he is gay by default.
I had another friend who dated women for years, but he never could really get into them. And when he saw a hot guy walking down the street, it turned him on more than when he saw a hot woman walking down the street. Eventually he had sex with a guy and enjoyed it much more than he ever enjoyed sex with a woman. So then he got into a gay relationship and stayed in it until he died from AIDS. I would say that he was gay by design.
Other people choose to be gay because they can understand and relate to their own sex a whole lot better than the opposite sex, or because they are angry at the opposite sex, or they got hurt from being rejected, or whatever…