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From: larry@grkermit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "Why be gay ...?"
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Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 18:30:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  8 18:30:42 1984
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>From cher@ihuxi:
Homosexuality appears to be a perversion (no negative or any other
connotation here) of one of the basic human
instincts. Object of the sexual drive (and its ultimate purpose) differs
from original.
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Its not clear what you mean by the "original" purpose of sex.
Animal behaviors don't necessarily have a purpose.  They come about
randomly, and those which promote the species survive.  There is a
theory that homosexuality, in other species as well as humans, does
have a survival value as a promoter of tribalism, rather than