Sex is often considered a taboo topic amongst some of the lesser minds in the West, moreso in the Middle East, Africa, and the far East, and it is precisely for this reason that I chose to discuss it at some length and with a great deal of candor.
None of us would be here without it and, in the right circumstances and with the right partner(s), it can be one of the most enjoyable things humans can do for free.
Some people think discussions of one of the most fundamental and natural human acts is not appropriate whereas I think this is nothing more than backwards, fundamentalist-bent thinking.
Sex is a beautiful, wonderful human gift that should be seen as wholly natural practice between consenting adults.
History shows us that sexual attraction is a dance between ingrained, hard-wired attraction and cultural norms. Overcoming cultural norms and "traditional" values is at the heart of being sexually open.
I do not believe in any metaphysical or religious barriers to human sexuality. People should be free to pleasure each other in any which way they please.
Homophobia is no different than any ignorant dislike of one group of humans, be it ethnic, religious, or sexual bias. In a free society, we should be free to engage in any form of physical love we chose with consenting adults.
The idea that we should legislate Biblical interpretations of relationships and proper sexual acts is nothing more than idiocy and ignorance and these views can be found across fundamentalist portions of the deep south in America and in fundamentalist cultures throughout the Middle East and Africa.
These views, that it is wrong for two men to be together or for two women or for polyamorous relationships to exist, is nothing more than an attempt to make one's self and one's particular group greater than others.
It is dehumanizing. It is the pompous rhetoric of ignorant minds to congregations of ignorant minds. It is ignorant of history. It is ignorant of neuroscience. It is ignorant of genetics and psychology. It is ignorant of my true understanding of God. My God has no problems with love in any form.
Some in the esteemed brain-trust known as the "Texas State Legislature" have said that if one allows two men to be together, then what about chickens and other animals?
Well, I would imagine that the combined IQs of the inbred hicks who lean to the right in that joke of a body politic is in the single digits and they wouldn't know love or a true understanding of the infinite love of God if it fell on their heads.
The more homophobic an individual is, the more likely that they are harboring deep desires or fantasies about homosexual relationships. Priests, Popes, preachers and politicians who rail against the sins and evils of homosexuality are typically in the closet or the airport bathroom themselves.
The adult human form, in both sexes, is, in my opinion, beautiful.
There is no good answer to the question of whether or not homosexuality is a choice or ingrained. For some it is one or the other and, for many, it is a fuzzy truth.
Let's remember, children and animals are not able to consent because their minds are unable to fully grasp the choice. Children and animals may very well know their orientation early and experimentation between adolescents of the same age group seems only natural. However, I do agree that adults should not engage in physical love with minors- "minor" being the cultural norm of a particular society.
I think it should be rather universally accepted that 14-15 would be the absolute youngest age appropriate and 16-17 should be the norm in western, developed countries. In non-educational, primitive cultures, it seems normal for sexual activity once puberty has passed.
But, the more advanced a society, the longer we should wait for educational goals and other maturing factors to have taken place. In other words, an adult is older in a technological society than in, perhaps, a Medieval or hunter-gatherer society.
I think adulthood at 17 seems reasonable given that one can join the army at that age. Perhaps voting and drinking should be aligned with the age at which the Federal government will allow you to train and go off to die for its existence?
I am not averse to the wise laws that see age ranges as appropriate so that sexual relations between an 18 year old and 17 year old is not statutory rape. This is lunacy.
