Sometimes I get so frustrated at the ignorance. How people never bother to question their beliefs or the rules of the world.
Have you ever asked yourself why marriage is a legal agreement? Why the father of the bride offers of dowry or pays for the wedding? Does that sound the "natural" flow of things -- or like a bribe and binding contract?
The sexuality labels used today are the product of religious conservative thinking in the past 80ish years.
“Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.” is derived from the King James Bible, Matthew 7:14. It was quote used by the Church during the Great Depression to convince men that leading a straight life (get married, have children, raise a family, go to church) would cure the mass unemployment and homelessness.
"Are you on the straight and narrow?"
Times were so desperate, that those who went against this conservative thinking were outcast and vilified. Thus began an uncommon era of mass sexual repression and m/m intimacy was forced underground until the 1950s-60s when homosexual activists joined the civil rights movement.
During this time, the word "sexual" was too taboo to mention in public so the activist changed it to "gay", a word that had always meant "happy, carefree, celebrating and partying". It has been said gay rights are the last leg of the civil rights movement.
I believe when we stop using words like gay, straight, bi -- and the exchange of any human affection is universally accepted -- we all become equal.
It was the Greeks, whom we owe our democracy, philosophy, science, art, etc who first acknowledged men who suck each others dicks have less of a reason to fight, kill and go to war. Somehow that got lost after the fall of Rome when the Church rose to power.
The word "civilization" means is a society with a high level of cultural development and acceptance. We're not quite there yet.
Comments, counterpoints, ridicule?
Have you ever asked yourself why marriage is a legal agreement? Why the father of the bride offers of dowry or pays for the wedding? Does that sound the "natural" flow of things -- or like a bribe and binding contract?
The sexuality labels used today are the product of religious conservative thinking in the past 80ish years.
“Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.” is derived from the King James Bible, Matthew 7:14. It was quote used by the Church during the Great Depression to convince men that leading a straight life (get married, have children, raise a family, go to church) would cure the mass unemployment and homelessness.
"Are you on the straight and narrow?"
Times were so desperate, that those who went against this conservative thinking were outcast and vilified. Thus began an uncommon era of mass sexual repression and m/m intimacy was forced underground until the 1950s-60s when homosexual activists joined the civil rights movement.
During this time, the word "sexual" was too taboo to mention in public so the activist changed it to "gay", a word that had always meant "happy, carefree, celebrating and partying". It has been said gay rights are the last leg of the civil rights movement.
I believe when we stop using words like gay, straight, bi -- and the exchange of any human affection is universally accepted -- we all become equal.
It was the Greeks, whom we owe our democracy, philosophy, science, art, etc who first acknowledged men who suck each others dicks have less of a reason to fight, kill and go to war. Somehow that got lost after the fall of Rome when the Church rose to power.
The word "civilization" means is a society with a high level of cultural development and acceptance. We're not quite there yet.
Comments, counterpoints, ridicule?