Argentina Legalizes Gay Marriage and Adoption, 1st country in Latin America

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trestres said:

sapphi_snake said:

trestres said:

One personal opinion on homophobic people. It's only natural of human beings to feel repulsion over something that's not following the lines of our natural ways of behaviour. I'm not even justifying homophobic people at all, because that's terrible, but you can't be angry over someone feeling repulsion after seeing 2 gay people kissing on the streets (so long as there is no agression or discrimination). I'm sure many would feel repulsion over a father and a daughter kissing or having sex, or people eating excrements, because those are things that go against the basic human instincts and what has been in our genetic memory for millions of years with the purpose of preserving the species. I'm not saying those are wrong, as in morally wrong, but they can be disturbing for some people and that needs to be aknowledged by the people performing such acts and so they should think whether it's appropiate or not to do it in X place at X time.

Homophobia is culturally determiend, it has no biological basis. In places where homosexual sex was accepted  , like say ancient Greece, there were no homophobes. Actually a lot of those things you said are culturally determined, they are not in our genes. So don't blame genetics for feeling repulsed by seeing gay people kiss.

And did you just compare gay people to people eating excrements??? Someone should ban you ASAP.

So eating excrements is wrong only because you don't like it. Who should be banned then? You are being elitist and you are discriminating others because of their preferences. Giving sexual preferences the priority over all preferences is totally wrong and unacceptable.

Plus you are speaking out of your ass when saying that biological history has nothing to do with people feeling repulsion over certain acts or things.

As of yet I have never heard of any experiment where a new born baby has been taken and isolated from any external influences and studied while growing up. If such an experiment would take place and the child would manifest repulsion towards homosexual acts despite no external influence to encourage such a thing then I'd admit that homophobia (as in repulsion towards homosexual acts) is genetic.

However children, especially males are, taugh that any sort of contact with members of the same sex is inapropriate from a very young age. Heven't you ever seen parents freak out when their 5-year-old son kissed another boy on the cheek, followed by expressions like "don't do that, taht's disgusting/icky!"? Or haven't you ever seen TV shows where men even hesitate to hug themselves and act as if they just did something disgusting? Our personalities are greatly influenced by absolutely everything we see around us.

You for example may think that eating a dog is something disgusting and terrible, yet dogs are considered a delicassy by hawaiian natives. Lot's of the things we find disgusting are culturally determined.

There were tribes in the South Pacific where men would ingage in anal sex with eachother as a rite of passage into adulthood (I forget the name of that particular tribe). And contrary to what Slimebeast says there are societies, like some islamic countries, where men engage in homosexual acts with eachother simply because women are off-limits, considered to be reserved for marriage and reproductive puropses only. When Slimebest says most men are disgusted by homosexual acts, he actually refers to men raised in western societies influenced by judeo-christian ideology, as the repulsion he talks about is not at all specific to eastern societies for example.