Making sex acts forbidden doesn’t cut down on them. The urge for sex is stronger than the urge for chocolate cake. Humans will always have problems resisting temptation. I don’t know exactly what making gay sex or sex outside marriage illegal would even do.
Agree... And this is why even in the strict Mosaic Law it took 2 witnesses or more to bring down sanctions. God Himself knew the closet would exist, and the Law’s concern was to put a robust firewall between that and society.
“The urge for sex is stronger than the urge for chocolate cake.”
And then there are those who have sex WITH the chocolate cake.
It would, for one, spare us this homosexual “marraige” nonsense and all the related crap that descents from it.
That alone would be a benefit.
Moreover, that something is actually not approved of at least sets the tone of the conversation away from licentiousness. There is something to be said about a society that at least makes a pretense of valuing virtue rather than one whose attitude is “oh hell yes!” when it comes to engaging in wickedness.