Posted on 07/17/2007 3:59:27 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt wants to help liberal types like me understand why some people condemn homosexual relationships as immoral...
...But why do so many people think homosexuality is disgusting? I never had any problem with it.
University of Pennsylvania psychologist and disgust expert Paul Rozin says it's particularly a guy thing - most heterosexual men are disgusted by the thought of touching other men. Rozin recalls experiments in which researchers asked subjects how disgusted they'd be if a Q-tip that had been in the mouth of either a man or a woman was subsequently touched to their own various orifices.
Women didn't care much whether the swab had touched the mouth of a man or a woman. But it mattered to men, who - surprise! - were not at all disgusted by the Q-tip that touched a woman but totally grossed out if they thought it had touched another guy's tongue.
Isn't it kind of babyish to declare gays immoral because you think their sex lives are icky?
... Haidt says he was inspired by the University of Chicago's Leon Kass, who headed President Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005. In an earlier essay, called "The Wisdom of Repugnance," Kass wrote that feelings of disgust come from "an emotional expression of a deep wisdom. . . . Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
“The love that dare not speak its name, is now the love that won’t shut the Hell up.”
The last days. Sodom and Gonorrea!
Heh. Exactly!
“As to the “revulsion” thing...maybe it is built into us!”
BINGO! Us guys were born that way. We were pre-programmed at birth to detest fudge-packing. Statistics are on our side. We can probably prove that easier than they can prove they were born queer.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
That's really too bad for you. When everything is clean and fresh, it's the sweetest smell on earth.
“why do so many people think homosexuality is disgusting”
Oh, I don’t know...
Could it be that it runs counter to 1,000,000 years of human development??
Just a guess.....
“What fuels the hatred of homosexuality?”
It’s more the homo agenda in our schools and our society. Other than that, no real problem with what two adults and a gerbil do behind closed doors.
Just don’t tell me that I have to call it normal.
“Are you trying to say that guys are naturally disgusted”
LOL
At first glance, I thought you wrote “guys are naturally DISGUSTING...”
I was going to reply, “Yes, but I still like them ;^)
Being molested by a pair of homos as a child does it for me.
However, consider the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free publicity it received.
Also consider that it was deemed a “must see” movie for progressives — they needed to attend to keep their cred in certain circles. If they didn’t they “got some ‘splainin’ to do” at the next dinner party they went to.
Now that the novelty value has gone; the next “gay” movie won’t receive the media attention that BBM did. Also, “progressives” won’t be required to attend. That leaves the entertainment value — and we’ll learn the real market value of “gay” sex movies.
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