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From: ariels@tekecs.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
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Subject: re: gay response response...
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 12:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 30 12:41:56 1983
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I read somewhere (I beleive it was a Science News a while back)
that someone has come out with an hypotheses concerning the 
cultural advantage of the existance of human homosexuals.  These
people would not have to spend their energy raising children, and could 
therefore use the energy to study, teach, be artists, etc. (i.e., do
things that were not necessary for survival, but were necessary for
the growth of civilization.)

As for the idea that homosexuality would be bred out by now, this is
only a valid assumption if you also assume that a person is either homo-
or heterosexual, and that there is no inbetween (bisexual, people who feel
the urge to be homosexual but don't dare buck the prevailing heterosexual
trend (i.e., those who stay in the closet), people who feel twinges of
desire for the same sex, but who've never paid any attention to it, etc.)
Saying homosexuality would be bred out is like saying that intelligence
and the desire to learn would be bred out, since in the Middle Ages,
people with the desire to learn went into the Church, and monks and nuns
were celibate. 

Human sexuality is probably a continuoum(sp?), with most people being actively
heterosexual, but with varying degrees of homosexuality in individuals.
We practice heterosexuality most (even if we have homosexual urges), because
that is the way we've been taught is "right", and "natural".  Perhaps
if society was a little freer with respect to sexual orientation, we would
be more willing to explore the sexual side of our friendships with MOTSS,
instead of running away when that kind of affection reared it's (ugly?)
head. 


Ariel Shattan
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