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Originally posted by HotDogNoBun
reply to post by dannyfal
It is an illness, because it impairs your judgement and you life choices, just like having depression or any other chemical or hormonal imbalance.
Culture sets the norms.
Originally posted by saturnine_sweet
You're gay because of social and psychological influences, (nurture,) not nature. That doesn't necessarily make it a choice, really, but it is a sexual deviance based on psychological conditions.
Same sex coupling is normal in humans and other species. It's not a pathology and it's not environmental.
Originally posted by neformore
You know, where people decide to put their bits in other people isn't really an issue for anyone but the people involved.
Originally posted by neformore
Describing gay sex as deviant, or abhorrent and "against nature" is silly, because the very same practices can be carried out between a man and a woman, and apparently its being done much more frequently these days according to the statistics on curbing unwanted pregnancies.
Originally posted by neformore
Does that mean that an increasing percentage of the hetrosexual community is also becoming "deviant" and "abhorrent"?
Originally posted by ziggystrange
Anybody here that says this is about kids 13 being too young to think about sex is either, lying or ignorant.
13 is an age where children are supposed to experience childhood remember?
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
I think if this was any other topic you would disagree with yourself
if a kid buys mind altering substances that isn't the neighbourhood's business? If you didn't know kids are our future and require guidance.
Even if your neighbour was a wife beater and the wife just took it, would you just let it happen?
That's not the point though
And I want them to live in a civilized society, so OF COURSE I have to actually care about that society. I mean of course.....
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
the guy who mentioned only 10% of people are gay and others responding about maybe being a redhead is a disease too or left-handed.
Well those are completely off the wall analogies in my opinion.
Being a redhead doesn't decrease your life span and make you more prone to diseases, neither does being left handed.
On another note, i'd also like to throw this at everyone.
If being gay is normal then why do many gay men act so feminine?
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by NatureBoy
If i can't mention religion then you have to stop acting as if the moral system of old christendom is infallable, you gotta stop saying things are 'unnatural' and 'immoral' or 'perverted' or 'sick' or anything along those lines which begs the question.
Forget religion, take a look at human anatomy
Originally posted by NatureBoy
I'm sure you'll agree that it sounds terrible, thats why we came up with society and moral systems and code of laws, etc, etc, etc
Forget morals, look at the human anatomy