Keith,[snip]
. My complaint about male homosexualtiy is not so much that it exists but that because it has reached such a large and substantial proportion of the population it becomes rationalised as "natural" when, in fact, because an adolescent ambivalent boy is sucked into such a largish sub-culture he becomes increasingly trapped (as Harry mentioned yesterday). The result of all this is that, today, (compared with the previous examples) the boy never grows up to have hetrosexual experience nor the jopys of long-term hetero relationships.
Arthur
I agree with this. This would apply to all sorts of things that kids feel or see about them but don't see as "normal." Once they are seen as "natural" then they say "why not try it out..." This could apply to car theft, heroin or whatever.
May I append some "whatevers"? Being an employee doing meaningless work in a big depersonalized organization? Being a student who shapes his or her future by their school grades, SATs, etc.? Being a housewife? Being a go-get-em salesperson? Getting married and having more children than one can afford (or perhaps would really want...), and getting mired in debt etc.? Note that none of these things is illegal. Then there are the high-end car-thieves like Mr. Fastow of ENRON fame, who may also be addicted to the drug *power* (I think it is not so important that some fo them also "take drugs")....
I "feel" that there would be a lot less homosexuality - and, far more important: far fewer perversions!!! -- if each person was raised from infancy in an environment that straightforwardly nurtured their sexuality instead of repressing and trying to "sublimate" it. It at least seems an experiment worth trying. If man is by nature a curious animal, etc., then I would expect libidinally satisfied individuals to be productive and creative - gracefully, instead of with an admixture of fear and guilt, etc. And let young persons discover their homosexual desires (insofar as they may have any) in decorous social intercourse, rather than in the LOCKER ROOM...
\brad mccormick
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