# The homosexual attraction fundamentals **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 3, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homosexual-attraction-fundamentals/146359 "2003-01-03T03:36:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homosexual-attraction-fundamentals/146359/21 "2003-01-03T23:01:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*I’m not interested in openly heterosexual men. I’m also not really interested in married men who want gay sex on the side. > > The phenomena of married men who go out for gay sex behind their wives’ backs is not uncommon. > > In my area of Oregon, I have seen it be quite prolific. \*\* Actually I saw a program on Mtv about something similar. Granted they weren’t married men, they were living as heterosexuals (they had girlfriends)who had an occasional fling here and there. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Dickerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Scott\_Dickerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Dickerson)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homosexual-attraction-fundamentals/146359/22 "2003-01-04T21:28:02Z")
“My wag is that “rules” for attraction in homosexuals are like nipples on men. They don’t help in childraising but the genes are there anyway and still get expressed. I.e., we may have evolved certain behaviors for a particular reason but lacking that reason doesn’t make the behavior go away.” Ftg– That’s what I was trying to say; you found a more vivid way to say it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homosexual-attraction-fundamentals/146359.md?page=1)