Whoa!!!!!!

Hey, please don't confuse homophobia with sexual orientation!

We are socially conditioned (depending the society we grow up in) to be skeeved out by the thought of two people of the same gender touching each other sexually. If you approach it rationally, that is just silly -- it is skin. Some things stick out, some things don't. Why get all bent out of shape about it.

I've believed this since I was 19 and read this in A Stranger in a Strange Land: "There are two types of people in the world. Those who know they are bi-sexual and those who don't."

Having said that, women don't smell sexy to me, they don't feel sexy to me. They are missing hair in the places that men have hair (no offense to the naturally hairless, but really, Sean Connery and Alex Baldwin in their heydays without a shirt? Sex on a stick!) There is biology at work -- however intellectually I am bi-sexual, between my social conditioning to back away from same sex encounters and my personal pheromones, I am a practicing heterosexual.

But kids of 5-10 years old know who they like. Calling it social conditioning is bad science and bad religion.




>> ^rebuilder:

Well, this is so full of non sequiturs I'm not sure it pays to think much about what's being said here, but here goes:
As a male who finds gay sex simply alien, I think sexual orientation is largely a matter of social conditioning. I have no sexual interest in men, but I wouldn't mind feeling otherwise about it.
As for marriage, I'm leaning towards just getting the state out of that business altogether. If two or more people want to announce an intent to form a more or less permanent relationship between each other, that's a private matter. Society at large should have no say in that. I'm open to counterarguments, of course.