“Why does homosexuality exist?”
What a click-baity title for an article.
And what an idiot I am for having clicked it when I wasn’t terribly interested in the answer.
At least not anymore than I am to know why my homo homies use a rainbow for their flag (I still dunno. Don’t bother telling me. I’ll forget.) Yet, I read on. For science. But not before opine-ruminating on the issue a bit: I suppose it’s one of those things where since it doesn’t affect me negatively, it does affect me positively (inasmuch as I enjoy the LGBT culture immensely), and no one’s forcing me to scissor them if I don’t wanna – why bother asking why? It’s kinda like my diet. I’m vegan for all those reasons you’d roll your eyes about if I detailed them. Does it means something to me? Yes. But I’m also not gonna play “Earthlings”as my mom serves everyone else a Christmas ham so my family can see a snuff film starring their entree. You do your thing. That said, there are some other overzealous folk – be they dietary Nazis or door knocking Mormons who are relentless in their efforts to brain-change you.
I’ve never met someone trying instill fear to convert me to carpet munching as a way of life.
Maybe a flirtatious request.
But never with hate – like this dude who says we should kill all gays by Christmas. Because AIDS.
“So, my brothers and sisters. Our good and loving Jesus wants all the gays dead by the day he was born.”
There may be no logic to this guy who’s trying to quote “science” and failing miserably. But there may be a science behind plugs and circuits eschewing each other for their own kind. I’m not saying there’s a “cause” for gayness. But, at least on a scientific level, there might be an interesting correlation. Studies done recently on gay men and women, showed that they had higher levels of progesterone than the hetero test subjects did. Admittedly, I didn’t know much about this hormone, so I had to read on to figure out how it affects social interactions. Basically, it’s kinda like the platonic “friend” version of oxytocin – the “love/cuddle” hormone. We start pumping progesterone when we’re with friends and bonding.
So what’s that mean?
Perusing the peanut gallery of online commentary, I see a lot of hateful musings. I also see a lot of people saying that over-sexed society had led people to confuse “friendship” for “sexual attraction” – and that goes for opposite sex and same sex alike. That’s not wrong on an accuracy level. But it’s also not morally wrong, in my humble opinion, so long as people are happy and with a willing partner. I don’t care what hormones you’ve got pumping through your body or what gender you’ve got pumping in it. The real question isn’t if you’re gay. And it definitely isn’t why you’re gay (for most of my pals, that’s tantamount to asking why their eyes are blue). But if you’re unsure about whether gay is wrong for you, take my quick one question long quiz: is what you’re doing in the bedroom affecting you or others negatively when you’re not? No? Good! Then change nothing. You’re winning at life. In a way, you could argue that since those in rainbow connections have both OTC and high levels of progesterone (cuddle and companion hormones)… they’re just better and friendlier people overall.
Mmmkay I’m sold. When’s my vaj baptism?
Gay-annihilating-God-dammit.