This question bothers me a little as I noticed I've become more interested in art and painting in the last month. Don't tell anybody. I'm serious.

Why don't you ask yourself? Have you felt homosexual tendencies since your sudden interest in art?

I think gays are more drawn to art and creative fields in general. I'm not sure why that is. As a student of art and now working in the field of design, I noticed that too. It's just something that you have to get used to.

Wasn't da Vinci a flamebag?

Wasn't da Vinci a flamebag?

Yeah.

Why don't you ask yourself? Have you felt homosexual tendencies since your sudden interest in art?

Yo, whoa... don't talk like that. Just forget I asked.

I am not a battyboy. I know this 1 hunn'd pacent. It's just a question.

I do not think that there is anything especially gay about the arts, simply that those inclined towards the arts tend to have an emotional connection that may lead to traits which may be united with homosexuality. That being said, the majority of artists have been straight and most homosexual artists have only been in pederastic relationships.

most homosexual arts have only been in pederastic relationships.

WHAT? That's stupid.

There is not a buller man bone in my body.

Spidergoat:

I had meant "homosexual artists" not "acts" if you misinterpreted.

But to clarify why I say most homosexual artists - up to, at least, the 20th century - were in pederastic or pederastic-like relationships, consider the teenage - or very young adult - male lovers of such notables as Oscar Wilde, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Lord Byron, Michelangelo...

Homosexuality has historically been a matter between older and younger men. There are comparatively few instances of relationships amongst men of relatively equal age.

That's what I thought you meant, and it's still stupid. Most pedophiles are hetero.

Pederastic, not pedophiliac. Pederasty is male relationships with adolescents in a non-compulsive manner. Considering teenagers are universally held to be attractive, this is not any perversion.

Also, there are significant reasons to suggest that pedophiles are at least somewhat oriented homosexually when a great deal many young boys are victims of homosexual rape and molestation. It is hard to quantify molestors as "straight" when many target boys and not girls.

James,

you're smart, I respect that and everything, but this is one topic where I can't read your posts and enjoy.

Don't worry, Nicholas, you shan't desire teenage boys.

But yes.

Okay then. I just want to make that clear - I'm not gay.

The verdict then. We agree, being a male artist does not necessarily lead to homosexuality. Although, due to being more in touch with emotions, it can make one percieve things from a more feminine standpoint. Where pedastric and feminine type of tendencies might be "promoted" by artistic thinking. The former being more extreme as I interpret it.

Okay then. I just want to make that clear - I'm not gay.

That's lke the 4th time you've sad it in this thread. Why so defensive?

Yes, I don't think anyone here would find it a problem if you were.

Guys, don't hound him. He isn't gay.

Also, there are significant reasons to suggest that pedophiles are at least somewhat oriented homosexually when a great deal many young boys are victims of homosexual rape and molestation. It is hard to quantify molestors as "straight" when many target boys and not girls.
That is simply not true. Abusing children isn't the result of a particular sexual orientation. The vast majority of those that abuse both girls and boys are heterosexual. It's the power trip they get off on.

Other researchers (http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html) have taken different approaches, but have similarly failed to find a connection between homosexuality and child molestation. Dr. Carole Jenny and her colleagues reviewed 352 medical charts, representing all of the sexually abused children seen in the emergency room or child abuse clinic of a Denver children's hospital during a one-year period (from July 1, 1991 to June 30, 1992). The molester was a gay or lesbian adult in fewer than 1% in which an adult molester could be identified – only 2 of the 269 cases (Jenny et al., 1994).

(Sorry to derail your thread nicholas1M7)

Spidergoat:

I do not see what is the controversy? Male on male sex is, by definition, a homosexual act. Same for female on female. If a male molestor molests a boy, he is committing a homosexual act with a male child. Whether in adults the person is attracted to women or to men matters not - in children he is attracted to boys. Accordingly, that makes one gay at least in that regard.

There is simply no way to say that it is not a matter of homosexuality when the acts fit the definition to a T. He may screw all the adult women he wants, but when he screws a boy, he is, quite bluntly, a faggot.

Wrong. Your definition is out of date. If he screws a boy, he is either a pedophile or a hebephile first, not necessarily a homosexual, and may indeed be a heterosexual, or have no adult sexual orientation at all.

Definition is "out of date"? Analytically, one cannot be anything -but- a homosexual when one has sex with someone of the same sex. As pedophiles -are- attracted to either girls or boys, this means that one can be a straight or homosexual pedophile.

It may well be that there are no more gay people in the Arts than there are in, say, the Army.

What is different is that the Arts community is more accepting and open about homosexuality than some other communities (not mentioning the Army, of course, which is a bastion of tolerance).

Then again, maybe I'm wrong...

Like OMG! Nicholas is gay???:eek:

Yeah it seems so, he's into art, what other proof do you need?

Yeah it seems so, he's into art, what other proof do you need?An interest in home decorating, Desperate Housewives and Diana Ross.

Oh yeah, that too. :)

Analytically, one cannot be anything -but- a homosexual when one has sex with someone of the same sex.

They could also be bisexual.

This question bothers me a little as I noticed I've become more interested in art and painting in the last month. Don't tell anybody. I'm serious.
Almost all male artists are gay, nothing wrong with that.

What the hell?

Rainier Wolfcastle once said: MAYBE YOU ARE ALL HOMOSEXUALS.

Theres nothing wrong with being a homosexual, and you should all be shot for saying that male artists are gay. What grounding is this on?

Homophobes are as bad as racists.

What the hell?

Rainier Wolfcastle once said: MAYBE YOU ARE ALL HOMOSEXUALS.

Theres nothing wrong with being a homosexual, and you should all be shot for saying that male artists are gay. What grounding is this on?

Homophobes are as bad as racists.

If there's nothing wrong with being homosexual, why should we all be shot for saying that male artists are gay? Is it some kind of insult to you?

If there's nothing wrong with being homosexual, why should we all be shot for saying that male artists are gay? Is it some kind of insult to you?

I'm an artist, and it dosent offend me. But i just know that your all shollow minded, and the kind of people who beat up minorities and shouldnt have any control over anything in the world.

Wife Beating

Muslim Hanging

Gay Stabbing

Morons

I'm an artist, and it dosent offend me. But i just know that you're all shollow minded, and the kind of people who beat up minorities and shouldnt have any control over anything in the world.

Wife Beating

Muslim Hanging

Gay Stabbing

Morons

Then obviously, you don't know much about me.

I didnt necesarrily mean you.

I ment anyone who has a problem with homosexuals etc.