Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/05/2010 12:14:16 PM PDT by pinochet
No doubt you are right, in most cases. On the other hand, by the time I was 8, my moral code was pretty firmly fixed, and didn’t change much after I hit puberty. However, neither did my parentage.
That isn’t to say that I haven’t violated it, often. But not without knowing that I was doing wrong. And not by fornication or adultery, unless you count that “lusting in your heart” bit, nor by homosexuality in any circumstance.
I can’t even consciously force myself to think a “gay” thought without my stomach rebelling.
However, homosexuality is always a mental illness. Biology doesn't lie. So to answerthe question "Are all men capable of becomming homosexuals" we need to correctly rephrase it to reflect reality. "Are all men capable of becommming afflicted with homosexuality?" To which the answer is probably yes.
Can all men become afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Can all men become afflicted with depression? or with any other mental illness? I think so.
I do not know of a single study that shows that there is no man who cannot be brainwashed under the right circumstances. Enough torture and mental deprivation and conditioning and you can get anyone to do anything.
That still doesn't change the fact that homosexuality is a mental disease resulting entirely from trauma of some sort.
I guess we could say that there is MEDIOCRITY in anything everywhere, even in being a man. I am PROUD to be man! a real man, as far as sexuality; I live/love women too much and the idea of being something "defective" especially when it comes to BEING A MAN, it just makes puke.
No, I don't believe that for a minute!... Unless you have some kind of brain problem or simply a degenerate.
To me, the thing is, everybody has a feminine side. A real man can play dolls with his girls, wear pink, watch girlie movies, all that stuff and never give a thought to whether he might be gay, because he KNOWS he isn’t. The gender-confused ones are always questioning themselves and worrying about it.
“Could” I turn gay? Maybe, maybe not but I think they’re miserable and I would never want to put myself in a place where it was a possibility. Bad enough being an alcoholic.
I think it’s interesting to think about; Women look sooo cute to me and there’s an undeniable hormone rush when I see a pretty woman. But there’s no analog when I see a man. He’s just a man. He may be very handsome, I may notice, but there’s no hormone rush. So, I wonder what women look like to each other, and what men look like to them. It’s so subjective, it would seem there is no wai to quantify it.
Agreed. The tingle fails to materiale on my leg :)
Amen! Quit ripping the hair off your bodies,guys! (Unless there is far too much).
I’m 34 and I love older men,even those who are OVER 60! I love the salt-and pepper hair you older men have. 60 is not old at all.
Didn’t they wear stockings as well?
I don’t find men to be an aesthetic train wreck at all!
Wrong way.I love seeing this sign at the off-ramps of the interstate.You’d think that people would know the correct way to go.
I am not going to read 198 replies to see if this thought has already been posted. It seems to me this entire argument ignores the possibility that some men are bi-sexual. A heterosexual man having a homosexual affair does not prove that he changed. It just means he was bi all along. One of these days just such a person will sue for the right to marry both his girlfriend and his boyfriend.
I think you must have been directing your comment to Lonesome in Massachussets, to whom I was responding in the comment to which you replied.
As for me, I'm neither male nor anywhere near 60. :-)
The Greeks, for instance, assumed upper-class boys would go thru a phase as “the beloved” of a considerably older man, then get married and have children, and then get into relationships with one or more “beloveds” of their own...
The practice--or something like it-- continues is Afghanistan, I've heard.
Males are bi-sexual I think. Part of it biologically normal and socially necessary, I suspect. Early in life, a male has to "bond" at some level with another male; this bonding steers the child as he matures into manhood. I don't think fathers can meet all of these needs.
I suspect that during this period the child is vulnerable to influences by homosexuals.
I have several gay friends and have observed the way they interact. Not all, but at least half, seem oddly juvenile, as though stuck in pre- or early adolescence. One later fell in love with love with a woman and lived with her. Ive since lost contact with him, so I can't say if they're still together.
Other gays I know are in apparently stable long term relationships. Of these I've noticed that one appears more feminine and the other more masculine.
A lesbian friend once told my wife: "I was attracted more to the person than the sex."
In sum, all people are bi-, but just as true, all people eventually settle into a gender role.
Thanks.
How closely the present Afghan practice parallels the ancient Greeks is questionable. The accounts I’ve read make the Afghan men out to be abusive by any standards, while the Greek practice was considered highly honorable and admirable. The “mentor” had to woo the “beloved,” and meet his family, the whole bit.
The Afghans sound more like they’re just practicing abusive pedophilia, but that may be partly a result of ethnocentric bias. One account spoke of more than half the men in one city being involved. That’s a LOT of boys being abused, assuming that’s the right term.
Interestingly, Greek women in most cities were just about as isolated from society as Afghan and most other Muslim women.
Whoops! Sorry.I have a tendency to read too fast.
That’s just disgusting.Clear proof that homosexuals have no self-respect.
I’m sorry.I’m sitting here laughing at myself!
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