"A lot of people who go into prison, go in straight, and when they come out, they're gay," presidential candidate Ben Carson said back in March.
He shortly later offered an apology. "I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that, I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended," a CNN article quotes him as saying.
Some suggested that the theory of men going to prison straight and coming out gay came decades ago as a suggestion that since there were no women with them in the prisons, some chose to get their gratification else wise.
My thought? There is no biological wall preventing where a person can get his (or her) gratification. If a person decides that although he has never taken joy and enjoyment with someone of the his own sex in the past, he is now going to do so, it is possible to do so. He is free to choose satisfaction wherever he wants to find it. You can find your pleasure where you want to find your pleasure. Perhaps the laws of nature dictate orientation at birth, but those laws do not prevent a person from from finding sexual pleasures where he (or she) will. And, if he decides he enjoys sex with those of his own sex and decides to have it that way for the rest of his life, doesn't that become a matter of sexual orientation?
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