Quote Originally Posted by Alex Bragi
You’ve raised some interesting points, and I like to be challenged to think outside my little square...
I think what made your post so good, actually is that it made me start spewing out my views. Mine are subjective in a different way, since I am a male sub. Subjective, lol... didn't intend any pun, but I just read the sentence and it made me chuckle.
Quote Originally Posted by Alex Bragi
You’ve got me thinking it was rather narrow-minded of me to spruik on about men in high powered and highly paid positions. Many people are in position of responsibility, but not all necessarily highly paid or overly educated. .
Probably not that narrow-minded. It's a theory I've heard before. In fact I thought about it for a long time. I spent the last 11 years as a college teacher, and I wondered about myself: if the theory was correct and that my out-going, dominant type of job made me want to submit in private.

After a lot of careful intropection I realized that I had had these feelings long before I was in that "position of power" so, based on my own experience, I tend to discount it.
Yes, I’m aware of those therories, and as far as I’m aware none has been proved or disproved, so with all due respect, I won’t go as far as saying they’re all ‘bull’, just yet.
While hard to prove or disprove by any other means, I believe that both these two theories, similar in that they attribute a sexual preference to environmental causes, can be discounted due to straight up statistics. I can't find a reference right now, but I'm sure I've seen study results that say that the incidence of homosexuality doesn't correlate with abuse at home and something similar with SM leanings. Of course if I can't give you references I shouldn't really rely on my memory, but if I can find them I will add to this thread. Personally, I have always doubted the environmental theory as do most of the gays I've asked.
To me the human psyche is eternally intriguing. If some genius ever does discover all the answers I’m sure life will become very dull.

Here here!

Thank you for a stimulating discourse!