sexuality issues

In order to avoid derailing the Kevin-Spacey thread, I'm starting a new one devoted to this question. You assume correctly, but no, I have no more difficulty comprehending men who are attracted to men than I have comprehending women who are attracted to men! (And please don't tell me again...

1. I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this already. 2. SMM&T is probably the more logicla place for this discussion but SI&CE gets more traffic. So do exclusively heterosexual woman exist? According to a study <insert usual warning here> by Gerulf Rieger, no; woman are innately sexually...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/politics/ben-carson-prisons-gay-choice/index.html I wonder what his definition of gay is? Maybe it is the same as the bigots who subscribe to the "one drop rule" when trying to decide who is black? I wasn't thinking of any of those things each time I got married...

So... the faire is abuzz with the fact that a couple of kids got caught in... er... well, pretty much foreplay. Seems that each had walked in on their respective parents during sex & got "the talk". "When a mommy & daddy love each other very much, they get married & etc..." Well, since they...

From a now deleted post on tumblr.

So while exploring TVTropes, I found a trope page called No Bisexuals, in which it gives examples of works of fiction (and even real life assumptions) that completely ignore bisexuality or even the existence thereof when it would be logical to at least acknowledge it. For example, I actually...

Plenty of anecdotal evidence for this already, but now a study says the same thing: Study: Homophobes May Be Hidden Homosexuals Here are their methods. I wonder if they are reliable? The reaction time tests in particular, I wonder if that really proves anything? Browsing pictures, I think I...

Ok, don't ask me how I arrived at this topic. I swear it has nothing to do with anything I have done or contemplate doing, just something that popped up in a discussion I had with someone, and later, out of boredom I guess, I thought about it, and got confused. I guess I am asking this not for...

You had to expect that the Santorum surge in the GOP primary race would fade some time, just as did all its predecessors. But, this birth control kerfuffle, which has got most Americans gobsmacked that this is even controversial, is going to sink Santorum faster 'n an Italian cruise ship...

“House” gets asexuality wrong Sounds to me like they blew it. Why treat asexuality as a medical condition instead of just another sexual orientation?

Sex and the City co-star Cynthia Nixon has said she's "gay by choice". Critics are saying she's playing into the hands of conservatives and I agree. Why not just call yourself bisexual? I admit, I'm not gay, so maybe I'm missing out on some idea.

I guess this is a social issue, what with the furror over the "homosexuality is a lifestyle choice" opinion and the fact hardly a day passes without some state declaring same sex relations criminal (Nigeria) or legalising same sex marriage (Australia). Somebody posted in another thread that...

http://www.nd.edu/~wcarbona/Haidt%202001.pdf Are our feelings and intuitions about particular behaviours a better guide for what acts we ought to prohibit or condemn than rationally evaluating whether there was any harm from those acts?

OK, first of all: eewwww. No thats over with, this: I think the general consensus is sex between two consenting adults is OK, and its the consent issue that excludes any human/animal sexual relations. Brenner argues: So, anthropomorphism aside, at what point would you admit that a given...

For the past few months I've been attending my local PFLAG chapter, because I wanted to be more involved with the gay community, offer support, and such. So far its been an interesting. In last Wednesday's meeting, we discussed quite a bit about transgender issues. Nebraska is one of the few...

The "elevatorgate story" has generated blogwars and pages and pages of posts on the internet. I think it would be interesting to focus on a few of the issues instead of ALL of them in a thread; hence this thread. IMHO, sexual mores are: * A controversial topic in Western Society * We really...

Yes, I know that I have been focusing on the Bacmanns lately. Frankly they fascinate me. It's like turning over a log. Anyway. There are a number of issues with Michele Bachmann's husband that, if they were associated with the spouse of a democratic candidate would be splashed all over...

I thought this was a good enough question to warrant its own thread without being tied down to real people or events--as it comes up more often than just the particular incident causing trouble lately. Is it a double standard to allow oneself to be "sexualized" in one context (such as appearing...

When evaluating political candidates, there are a number of things one wants to know about that person. His or her political philosophy, for instance, their ethical integrity, for another. Those are all obvious and straight forward. Further down on the list there are certain things that...

Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is not merely kooky, she's evil. What's more, she is a baby killer. She claims to be "Pro-Life" because she is against abortion. She believes that life begins at conception and fetuses have souls. But she is against policies that literally save the...

If a boy likes (for want of better words) "girly" things and fashions and dislikes "boyish" things or a girl likes "boyish" things and fashions and dislikes "girly" things, is that an early indicator of what their sexuality will be as an adult?

Two days ago, a certain Pia Friis, leader of a daycare center in Norway, had an article in the private daycare center magazine PBL Nytt (see references below) about handling child sexuality in daycare centers. Basically, her stance was that children are by nature curious about the world around...

From this this thread: What is your opinion of Maruli's comment? Let's try and keep this thread serious...I'd hate to see it moved to a different forum or erased entirely.