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Originally Posted by Baltar  Quote: |
Personally I don't condemn people who have those lifestyles but i think when they are embraced by societies at large those societies decline.
| Wow, that's a very strong statement to make. |
Just to play advocate of the devil, as I am in a homosexual relationship right now, I must agree that research shows that in societies that do not condemn homosexuality only 4% chooses to engage
only in homosexual acts, while the vast majority engages in homosexual in their 'youth' and eventually develops a heterosexual relationship.
It might even not be too big a leap to assume that somewhere up to 6% of gay men is actually stuck in that immature stage of their development and could thus benefit from 'a change of orientation'.
I'm personally somewhere on the 50-50 split and I have no idea on which side I will end up, if any, but I have found that the strong split between the two worlds is doesn't help my development. I think that's the true problem with 'changing your orientation'; that there is an assumption that you have to choose either side (which is caused by the belief that you should have a single partner
).
It's like making a probability to collapse to either true or false and then expect it to remain the same for life, which is stupid.
And to dor on promiscuity: Are heterosexuals more sexually inhibited than homosexuals? Do they suppress their sexuality more? If men could have sex without needing to be dominant and women could have sex without being sluts, would we become more promiscuous? How much promiscuity was in the era of 'free love'? Is it not likely that this level of promiscuity is how the world was supposed to function? I see it as the hallmark of an uplift in society