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To: cyberbuffalo
Bingo. This is not a conservative or liberal issue. It's a "normal" vs. "abnormal" issue. Every parent on this board who had a son that had been celibate for 10 years during his 20s, excepting that he was an ordained priest, would seriously wonder if their son wasn't gay, clinically depressed, or have serious psychological issues.
142 posted on 06/15/2003 1:16:21 PM PDT by Mister Magoo
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To: Mister Magoo
Or, they could assume that they raised their son correctly, with strong values, and that their son is waiting for marriage.

I detect a double standard... what if it was a daughter that was waiting for marriage? Would you think she was gay or had a psychological disorder?
150 posted on 06/15/2003 1:22:15 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (Lurking since 2000.)
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To: Mister Magoo
It's a "normal" vs. "abnormal" issue.

No it isn't. At what point do we stop medicalizing every personal decision or personality trait that not everyone agrees with? Don't like noisy crowds? Well you have a social personality disorder! Decide to go for quality rather than quantity in sex? Well you're a freak and have issues!

206 posted on 06/15/2003 2:26:28 PM PDT by garbanzo (Free people will set the course of history)
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To: Mister Magoo
It's a "normal" vs. "abnormal" issue.

Ah, the tyranical cries of the uncontrolled, who demand with all the fervency of a religious fanatic that all men be as uncontrolled as they . . .

Every parent on this board who had a son that had been celibate for 10 years during his 20s, excepting that he was an ordained priest, would seriously wonder if their son wasn't gay, clinically depressed, or have serious psychological issues.

I'm 27. Thus far, my parents remain proud, though they of course look forward to me meeting the woman God has in mind for me so that they can become even prouder grandparents. They're far more concerned with my younger brother, who started having sex at 14, cut a swath through the girls of all four grades of our high school by age 16, got burned out and started experimenting with bisexuality that same year, and "came out of the closet" at 18.

369 posted on 06/15/2003 11:13:20 PM PDT by Buggman (Stephen King has forgotten the face of his Father)
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