(April 22, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: If for the sake of argument, we take as given that people cannot change their sexual orientation that does not mean people must engage in the behavior.
Ok, you try being straight and not having sex, or any type of relationship, your entire life.
This is exactly what religion tells gay people to do. "You Must be celebate for God to except you".
The thing you don't realise, as someone I'll assume is straight, is that hiding your sexuality and not having any kind of companion ship, is incredibly draining on your mental health. Asking someone "go without intimacy" is a very big ask. It's not fair.
As Esquilax already pointed out, there is also more to being gay than anal sex. There are many gay men who are actually repulsed by the thought of it too, and have no desire to partake in it. They are still gay, in that they are still sexually and/or romantically attracted to other men, but they do not have a desire for anal sex. It does exist, I've actually dated a guy who felt that way.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie