[paglia444]

Well, I could also share my own personal experience, which you apparently believe is sufficient basis to generalize about gay and straight people. I won’t drain Free Republic of bandwidth talking about my visits to bathrooms and what I see or don’t see.

[A_perfect_lady]

We must both do as we see fit. I looked at Shakespeare's earlier sonnets and what came to mind is that he wrote plays for the theatre, at a time when women didn't act, and all women's roles were played by pretty young men. So if he developed a passion for an effeminate youth here or there, it can't be surprising. People are fairly malleable.

The fact remains that homosexual sex cannot reproduce the species, so it must be at best secondary in importance to heterosexual sex in nature's scheme of things.

I think the objection by many conservatives is that we have seen the progression of an agenda that first called for tolerance, then demanded acceptance, now pushes for celebration, and will soon expect preference. This is simply human nature, this desire to attain pre-eminence, but here it is in service of a lifestyle that seems to lead, at best, nowhere.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Grazie mille.