“I agree with what this guy wrote, but he significantly undermines his argument by saying that he acquired a psychiatric conditions partly from the trauma of seeing two people engaged in homosexual activity. That’s something you don’t particularly want to see, but to consider it a traumatic event makes the writer sound strange.”
You have to think inside a young man’s combat boots to understand that “men” in the 1960’s were not all that accustomed to seeing man-on-man sexuality in the service in a war zone.
Do you think young soldiers should become totally adjusted to viewing homosexual behavior in the foxhole, or any other holes available?
Call it traumatic or demoralizing, its the same thing.
I think it’s distasteful. It’s certainly orders of magnitude less horrifying than what one would see on a battlefield. To call it traumatic or demoralizing diminishes the suffering of people who have had to endure real psychological trauma—seeing their parents machine-gunned, escaping from North Korea, watching a child die or be raped.
If you really think you were traumatized by watching a man put his penis into another man, you might want to talk to a psychologist to address what terrible things happened in Vietnam that are really bothering you.