Why is 'Straight' the defalt?

Okay-Unless im very much mistaken-This hasn't been discussed-When someone is growing up why is it expected that they are Heterosexual? I mean I have heard of the Homosexual gene but that aside-Why is straight the Default? If anything when someone is growing up Asexuality should be the default-I know straight is the default because that is the way its 'supposed' to be but I think its wrong that a child should be expected to grow up straight as opposed to growing up Asexual and 'Choosing' when ready.

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Who says they get to "choose" whether they're straight or not?

And asexual doesn't mean that they don't have a sexual preference, it means that they multiply without a mate, simply put.

And why shouldn't straight be the default? I'm pro-gay rights, but I've met a hell of a lot more straights than I have gays. And not to mention how long heterosexuality has been the dominant one.

It's considered the "normal" path. Stereotyping, society, I don't know which to blame, but that's just the way it is. Especially since most (that's my personal guess, I don't know for sure) bisexuals and homosexuals don't realize their own sexuality until their teen years, maybe a few years before. So it seems that they "start out" straight (Not that they do, mind you, it's just the generalized view I've picked up). And of course, there's the whole sex is for procreating and only a male/female can procreate so they pass heterosexuality off as the normal default path to "keep the human race going."

 

It means both actually. Asexual reproduction means reproducing without the fusion of gametes or nuclei. Asexual people are people who are neither attracted to girls nor to boys.

Heterosexuality has the most evolutionary advantages; it has the most chance of your genes getting passed on (and the only chance along with bisexuality). Therefore, homosexuality has always been a minority. And there's no offense in calling a minority a minority.

 

Ah, I did not know that. I thought there was a completely different term for that kind of sexual preference?

 

To be honest, it all comes down to this:

It is classed as normal because it is nature you know? Its the default because you need a guy and a girl to make babies and the continuation of the species blah di blah.

 

There are 6 major catergories for sexuality in humans:
Homosexual - same sex attraction
Heterosexual - opposite sex attraction
Bisexual - both main gender attractions

Asexual, also known as non-sexual, since it refers to peole with a lack of having a desire to have sex.
Pansexual, known as omnisexual, are people who are 'gender blind' when it comes to sex and would be attracted to any type of sex
Polysexual, the attraction to many genders but not all, somewher in between bi sexual and pansexual.

If you look at Kinsey's scale of sexuality, he defines the sexualorientation of a person by either bisexual, homosexual and hetrosexual. It gives you a sense of some quantifiable data to look at, making sexuality seeming less ambiguous.

Now that's out of the way…
The reason has been explained why we have hetrosexual as a norm. It's the whole survival instinct to continue the species. I mean if we were all default homosexual humanities numbers would be only around the millions instead of the billions I say.
Just accept the fact we're a hetrosexual race because we can't produce any other way. Like through plant like asexual behaviour or difuse like cells can.

 

Ok this is gonna be a tough one

Well I don't really think that saying that straight is the defult. Cause what if the person was raised with nothing but defult like prefrences in life. But still wants to be a homo,bi,or heterosexual. Now what this in term can mean is that they are not normal. They have problems. Noo its just that they weren't really into the "usually way" of mating. But also you have to put in play that even if people were exposed to a defult like enviroment tehn they become a person out of the norm. Then there has to be a gene problem. I know that there is things like that when you have two xchromosomes and a y. Two y chromosomes and an x. Or the latest one I learned is x,y,x. But I really don't think that wat they belive in isn't considered normaly. It not the defult straight. I hope that I did well.

 

I've got a very strong veiw on this subject being a happy homo, I think hetro is the defalt because of religion, some religions find homosextuals as a sin and others never feature any homosextuals at all

 

And why is santa claus onl real ill sometime after you hit 10? It's the way you're raised...Not QUITE old enough to make your own decisions and your TOLD stuff like (for a guy) "So have you got a girlfriend yet" Which would lead the child to beleive they aren't supposed to like the same sex until they grow up a bit and learn the options and make thier own decisions.

 

what i think is that it is not anything to do with what we know i think it is our primal insticked to survive so everyone exspes all of us to get a girl or guy so you can carry one the line it is more to do with suvivel i think

 

10:1 ratio might have something to do with it.

 

I've read many of these replies and agreed with them: It's just nature, you know? In order to survive, you must mature and create offspring. To create offspring, the human race needs a male and a female - thus producing offspring sexually.

But straight being the 'default' orientation is just an assumption from what you see around you. Like above, it's nature. And, like others have said, you don't see many homosexual people walking around, do you? I don't, at least. I mean, yeah, there are homosexual people - many of them - here on Earth, but how often do you see them all around you? You can find them in gay bars and such, but you can't just walk down the street and say, "There's a homosexual person, there's a straight person, there's a homosexual person, there's a straight person..." and so on. And, not very often do you hear a 4-year-old say, "I'm going to be homosexual when I grow up!" Children grow up to learn to be like how their parents are: straight. Why? To create offspring. It's instinct.

But us, being human beings and having more than just instincts, habituation, trail-and-error, etc... basically, actually having a thought process to make decisions, we may subconsciously make the decision to be homosexual. I don't know.

But, with a lot of people within the world, it comes from Religion. (I'm speaking of those who follow a religion, and no, I'm not starting an argument.) As an example, people follow the Christian Bible. In the Bible, it describes homosexuality as a sin. So, in order to follow the religion, some people will even fight the urge to be homosexual.

The list goes on, but I'm too tired to list it all.

 

It's a default because of reproductions, it's in human nature to reproduce in order to survive that's how we've made it so far to begin with.

 

I don't mean to generalize, but it's true. Most people in the world are straight. And the default has to be SOMETHING, and it would be weird if everyone automatically assumed you were gay.

 

There is that one Google suggest.
"When I grow up I want to be notorious homosexual."

But on a more serious note, this is pretty much it. People are to be assumed straight until they realize they are not. It's just human nature.

 

Actually, if you had been raised to assume everyone was gay, wouldn't it be weird to you that everyone was assumed hetorosexual?

That's the thing, we only think gays are weird because that's what we were raised to believe. Granted, this is not always the case (myself being a prime example), but many people, be it by religion or parentage, were brought up to believe that the human race was meant to be hetero.

 

I wasn't raised that way. My parents taught me to accept all people, no matter what their race, sexuality, or gender may be. Therefore, I don't think gays are weird. But I d agree with you. Most people do.

 

Because that's how you make babies. A woman and a man.

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XD but seriously, yeah I would guess it's just because well, that's how you make the population increase, isn't it? How you reproduce? I mean animals are instinctively hetero even if some species do some homo thing, they just know how to mate with the opposite sex by default. Humans can make that choice later in life of what they want.

 

Well, when you break humans down to the core, we're very animalistic. That being said, though we may be the smartest animals, we still have instinctual needs and desires, like the need to survive as a species. How do we survive as a species? Reproduction. How do we reproduce? Heterosexually.

...As others have said.

Still, this instinct is kind of suppressed. Its not like we live purely on instinct anymore anyway...

...which I think makes it easier to grow up without them? I might be getting into a totally new issue here, but is it bad to say homosexual/asexual people (if you believe that being gay/asexual is something you're born with, not a chosen preference) don't have that desire to reproduce? I don't intend to offend anyone here, plus I don't know myself.

 

Simply put, Heterosexuality is considered normal, because to procreate you need to have a male and a female. If you don't, then no babies.​