Comments on: Masculinity and same-sex attraction https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/02/24/masculinity-and-same-sex-attraction/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Katie Cannon https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/02/24/masculinity-and-same-sex-attraction/#comment-26152 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:59:48 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3316#comment-26152 In what way is there a “tremendous” difference?
Sure, the Greeks still engaged in procreative sex, but there’s indications that many, just how many is anyone’s guess, that they did so with a sense of reluctance because homosexual sex was considered by large segments of the political order to be the more Beautiful sexual expression, while procreative sex was merely a means to an end, not Beautiful in and of itself.
So, sort of the like the closeted married gay guy today who prefers men, but marries out of a sense of social propriety.
So again, in what way is there a “tremendous” difference?
Katie

]]> By: carole https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/02/24/masculinity-and-same-sex-attraction/#comment-26151 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:05:02 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3316#comment-26151 testing–can’t seem to post

]]> By: Drowssap https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/02/24/masculinity-and-same-sex-attraction/#comment-26150 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:25:02 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3316#comment-26150 Katie Cannon

Bonobos are bisexual throughout their lives.
The Greeks were too, at least the upper male class was.

There is an enormous difference between bisexual behavior and lifetime, preferential homosexuality.

]]> By: Katie Cannon https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/02/24/masculinity-and-same-sex-attraction/#comment-26149 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:54:28 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3316#comment-26149 I’m confusing temporary behavior with lifetime, preferential homosexuality?
Bonobos are bisexual throughout their lives.
The Greeks were too, at least the upper male class was.
You write: “There might be a thousand reasons why that behavior may exist”
What behavior? Temporary or lifetime? Or both?
To keep things simple: What about those Greeks? Genetically gay or bisexual? Or just doing what the Greeks did because of a different concept of beauty, of sexual relations, of social and political order, etc?
Katie

]]> By: Drowssap https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/02/24/masculinity-and-same-sex-attraction/#comment-26148 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:44:50 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3316#comment-26148 Katie Cannon

What do you make of the fact that a deprived environment can create autistic like behavior?

A deprived “feral” environment is not natural to humans. Since humans didn’t have to commonly face that problem we didn’t evolve coping mechanisms.
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I think you might have your facts confused on monkeys and the Greeks. You are confusing temporary behavior with lifetime, preferential homosexuality. There might be a thousands reasons why that behavior exists.

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