# Every person of the opposite gender drops dead. Would you become homosexual? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376 "2009-03-22T20:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/21 "2009-03-23T02:46:08Z")
I don’t think I would. Of course, I never pictured myself as a necrophiliac, either, but it would certainly be an option. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/22 "2009-03-23T02:57:23Z")
I’m as straight a female as they come (hee), but I’m pretty sure if this scenario took place I’d have no problem seeking out the women I already find attractive. I mean, I have no problem being celebate, as that is what I am now, but if there was no reason to be and I could find some happiness with someone of the same sex? I’d go for it probably within the first several weeks. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/23 "2009-03-23T03:12:45Z")
I’d rather masturbate. Not being allowed sex wouldn’t suddenly make me attracted to men. Like said above, men are nasty, I have no idea how women sleep with us. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/24 "2009-03-23T03:14:55Z")
Uh, _shit_. I guess first and foremost I’d become a genetic biologist. Gotta figure out some way to keep the species alive. :eek: As for sex, well, I dunno. I honestly can’t see myself pursuing other men, so at first I’d probably just resign myself to a future devoid of romantic involvement. On the other hand, I estimate it would probably only take a few weeks for some cute guy to convince me otherwise. I’m just impressionable like that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/25 "2009-03-23T03:27:54Z")
I would be so freaked out by every other male on the planet dying, including all of my male friends and relatives, that having sex would be the least of my concerns. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/26 "2009-03-23T03:31:04Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I’d rather masturbate. Not being allowed sex wouldn’t suddenly make me attracted to men. Like said above, men are nasty, I have no idea how women sleep with us. Well maybe someday a nice woman will show you how 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/27 "2009-03-23T03:42:14Z")
If I could become homosexual through an act of will, I might just do it even if women weren’t wiped out. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/28 "2009-03-23T03:46:36Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > If I could become homosexual through an act of will, I might just do it even if women weren’t wiped out. I’m sure a lot of people would though. I mean, being homosexual would be awesome. Don’t have to deal with women whining, spend all day drinking with your friends etc, etc. It’s that whole “sex with men thing” that is stopping me. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/29 "2009-03-23T04:13:47Z")
I’d have to get into bed with WOMEN? What kind of sick scenario is that? just kidding. I have no idea what I’d do. I’m not real randy now; a world without Viggo Mortensen is too bleak for me to contemplate. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/30 "2009-03-23T04:17:47Z")
I’m 47 and I can honestly say I’ve never felt a single moment of physical attraction for another man. And I don’t imagine that’s going to change any in the remaining years of my life. So I don’t think turning homosexual is even an option for me. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/31 "2009-03-23T04:50:47Z")
I can’t imagine that I would turn straight. It’s possible, but I’d be so exhausted from jerking off all the time to provide sperm so there can be more kids, I doubt I’d even want sex. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/32 "2009-03-23T05:16:43Z")
The question mystifies me. I’ve never chosen to be straight; how could I choose to be gay? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/33 "2009-03-23T05:17:25Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Don’t have to deal with women whining… If you think dating men means you are spared whining, you have _obviously_ never dated any. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/34 "2009-03-23T05:20:16Z")
As a gay man, if every man on the world dropped dead except for me, I wouldn’t turn straight. If I was the last man on earth, I’d be the LAST man on earth EVER… LOL 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/35 "2009-03-23T05:30:49Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I don’t think men are nasty as such–I’m on record as thinking Taye Diggs is cute as a button–but it’s a continual mystery to me that every non-blind woman in the world is not at least bisexual. I mean, haev they SEEN each other? Even when I had a sex drive\*, I never really was attracted to other women. I would recognize that a woman had all sorts of sexual triggers, like the large, shapely breasts and butt, and the long hair and big eyes, but it just didn’t do anything for me. Certain guys, on the other hand, will set off my sensors, even now, and I will get a couple of twinges. When I DID have an active sex drive, being around a guy who I considered to be sexy would sometimes make me painfully horny. Incidentally, the comic [Y: The Last Man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_The_Last_Man) has this as its premise. Every male mammal in the world dies, except for one man and his capuchin monkey. At first I thought this was going to be an example of male wishful thinking, but the surviving male does NOT go out and dutifully attempt to impregnate every human female he sees. \*Due to medication side effects and complications of diabetes, I just don’t have much of a sex drive these days. Yeah, it kinda sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/36 "2009-03-23T05:33:03Z")
The answer is yes. Fast enough to make your head spin. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/37 "2009-03-23T05:43:47Z")
I would join the International Project to Create Horny Robot Women. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/38 "2009-03-23T05:49:19Z")
No, I just couldn’t, so it’d be porn for me too. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/39 "2009-03-23T05:58:20Z")
Kinsey-straight woman here. I would probably do the same I do with a man I am not attracted too. If I like being with him enough to fall in love with him, then the sexual attraction will surely follow. I guess the same would happen with a woman. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376/40 "2009-03-23T06:21:28Z")
I masturbated to porn from the age of 13 to 20 when I lost my virginity. I still masturbate more often than I have sex. It really isn’t all that bad. So no, I wouldn’t turn homosexual, I would simply continue to masturbate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-person-of-the-opposite-gender-drops-dead-would-you-become-homosexual/490376.md?page=3)