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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Kd, I think you're still missing my point. Say a person has an attraction to children, but doesn't act in any way to harm them. He has no desire to take advantage of them without their consent, but merely desires young people. Does he still have a mental disorder? If an abnormal attraction, regardless of actions that result because of it, are mental disorders, could homosexuality not be put beneath the same banner? It is not the normal attraction experienced by the majority of people, just as most people don't have any attraction toward children.
Regarding the injury question again, of course it is possible for straight couples as well. Straight sex clumsiness can also cause injury. However, I think such injury could be more likely in gay relationships (I guess, I'm no expert on how these things work), and I think things like infections could pose a problem that straight couples may not experience through clumsiness...(I understand that straight couples get infections from things as well, but people who engage in what I was previously referring to have a entirely different set of health issues to deal with).
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Addressing the first paragraph- well that's sorta different. I'm not a psychologist and haven't studied this at all, i'm not sure how the scientific community regards it. However, by law he is ALLOWED to have those thoughts. It is not illegal to have those thoughts. It is allowed. Only when it involves actions and real children is it illegal. Hell, even animated kiddie porn is legal. Kiddie erotica is legal. (if it were illegal, there would be a certain ex-GCer who would be serving time right now). The difference is when someone acts upon it. It's more of a matter of opinion. He (or she) has the right to think those things, just not a right to act upon them. To me, as long as he doesn't act upon them or it doesn't disturb his everyday activities, I don't really care. It doesn't hurt anyone.
People have all sorts of weird thoughts, desires, fantasies. Some are more extreme than others. Just surf around the internet and you can see all kinds of freaky stuff.
As to the second paragraph- I don't know how you can say an injury is more likely to happen in a gay relationship and but also say you don't know how these things work? (though I can't understand how you don't understand how it works... part A is inserted into part B, etc. etc.- it's not much different than hetero sex) Also, homosexuals and heterosexuals engage in a lot of the same sorts of activities. Heterosexuals also engage in oral and anal sex, so any injury could also just as easily happen to heterosexuals.