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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
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Posted: Sat Jun  9 19:18:46 1984
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>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