[JN.]

We must, after saying homosexuality is or is not a mental illness, say what a illness is.

In my opinion, a disease is a condition of our body or mind that make us suffer or that can destroy us (and with "destroy" I mean kill us or making us incapable of living a life with quality).

Thinking about this definition, I think that homosexuality should not be considered to be a mental illness. Homosexuals do not have any physical problem, neither a psychological one, because homosexuality is not directly related with some cases of depression or suicide. Some people say homosexuals have a mental illness because we can see that the most part of teenagers who commit suicide are gay; however, their depression is derived from the social pressure, and not from their sexual orientation. To prove that this is a fact and not a theory developed to protect gay rights, we can - and we should - analyse how homosexuality is seen in other cultures.

For example, we can pick the Etoro tribe; homosexual behaviour (yeah, I know it's different from homosexuality...) is encouraged by the tribe, so the most probable to be seen is that gay teens and straight teens have not different suicide rates. It's pure speculation, because I don't know any data on this, but it would be an interesting thing to study.

And I know there are more tribes who encourage homosexuality and where heterosexuality is not the the rule. This should also prove that homosexuality is not dangerous to any society, because if it was, it would be avoid by all societies. 




*I don't know if I wrote the whole message without mistakes but, if I didn't, I would like to know! *

[PlutoXid3]

My friend is homosexual. I believe he wasn't born gay, but taught gay. It's a problem we still need to fix -- Me and my friends regularly talk about helping cure it, it's not an easy task due to the mass amounts of gay pride shows and people accepting it. It will become a problem in the future, I think it needs to be dealt with. It's obvious what causes it -- it's definitely not a gay gene. IMHO.




^PoX3.

[JN.]

PlutoXid3, on 4 August 2010 - 11:49 PM, said:

My friend is homosexual. I believe he wasn't born gay, but taught gay. It's a problem we still need to fix -- Me and my friends regularly talk about helping cure it, it's not an easy task due to the mass amounts of gay pride shows and people accepting it. It will become a problem in the future, I think it needs to be dealt with. It's obvious what causes it -- it's definitely not a gay gene. IMHO.




^PoX3.

Why do you say your friend was taught to be gay? Although gay pride do exist, families do not encourage their children to be gay. In fact, families are always reproving all sexual orientations, except heterosexuality, of course. This should result in children "choosing" heterosexuality. However, there are gay children. Maybe this should be a fact against the nurture explanatory theory on homosexuality.


Why are you trying to "cure him"? Does he appears to be suffering? In affirmative case, maybe you should ask him what's making him suffering.

Why will homosexuality be a problem in the future? Do you think the number of gay people will overcome the number of straight people? I don't know what you think about this, but I think it's quite improbable.

[Moontanman]

PlutoXid3, on 4 August 2010 - 11:49 PM, said:

My friend is homosexual. I believe he wasn't born gay, but taught gay. It's a problem we still need to fix -- Me and my friends regularly talk about helping cure it, it's not an easy task due to the mass amounts of gay pride shows and people accepting it. It will become a problem in the future, I think it needs to be dealt with. It's obvious what causes it -- it's definitely not a gay gene. IMHO.




^PoX3.

I genuinely hope that you can understand that if you have a friend who is gay the best thing you can do for him is be his friend. Being gay cannot be fixed, be his friend treat him like you would any other friend, support him when everyone else is rejecting him and to put it simply "Be a friend", not a judge of his behavior. Being gay cannot be fixed any more than being heterosexual can be fixed but you can hurt him terribly by trying to fix him....