Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alan From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: "Why be gay ...?" Message-ID: <2522@allegra.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 19:18:46 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2522 Posted: Sat Jun 9 19:18:46 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 01:48:36 EDT References: <1177@drux3.UUCP>, <757@pucc-h> <903@ihuxi.UUCP>, <1037@nsc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 >It might not be a legitimate "net.singles" topic, but there is an aspect >of homosexuality other then FUN. Homosexuality appears to be a perversion >(no negative or any other connotation here) of one of the basic human >instincts. Which instinct is that? Human beings are certainly sexual creatures, by nature, but it seems that people *learn* to focus those feelings, i.e., to associate the sexual drive exclusively with one particular act. People are always talking about what's 'natural'. What is natural? Have you looked at other cultures? Is this 'basic human instinct' you speak of universal? (What is that you say? It is universal, except in those places where it's been perverted? :-) What about other sexual acts -- oral sex, masturbation, etc.? Are these also perversions of a basic human instinct? Why pick on homosexuality? -- Alan S. Driscoll AT&T Bell Laboratories