(June 9, 2015 at 3:13 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: If a family member raped me for that reason it would make me more determined to be a homosexual.That's difficult to say for sure. Psychological trauma of that magnitude can certainly screw someone up enough that it might scramble their sexual identity. Which is to say that rape is never a remedy for anything, and any culture that feels that it serves a purpose is pretty fucked up. Then again, India's culture considers "honor killing" --in which a family member may be put to death for "shaming" the family, and one of the ways to "shame" the family is by being the victim of rape-- to be a moral and reasonable idea. It's both horrible and sad when the concept of raping your mother to "cure" your homosexuality is not the most fucked up thing about your culture.
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