Fetishes (and attraction, in general)

The brain has personality firmware which define human nature. These have evolved over long periods of time. These are empty at birth but contain the genetic instructions needed for progression through the stage of life. These advance not only by the beat of their own drum, allowing us to see what is common to all, but also by collecting data from our environments. The ego and will power play a role in the external data collection, since these help to focus consciousness toward particular data.

Neurosis, for example, is recreated each day. Even if the firmware is attempting to advance back toward the natural genetic template, the ego and will power will often reenforce the same data and same behavior within the neurosis, maintaining the potential. As an analogy, you are attached to guide by a rope and they try to pull you to the right, while you pull to the left. There is tension in the rope, with is often mistaken for justification for the choices being made. But in reality it is due to the choices being made.

From my experience with the firmware, since we culturally assume all the important stuff comes from outside us, and the sub-conscious is a waste cesspool, the unconscious mind will attempt to reach consciousness through what is called projection. This is where what is inside appears to stem from outside due to an overlay, loosely analogous to a movie overlaying onto reality. We react to the composite. For example, all the doom and gloom predicted by global warming never appeared because it was a projection due to deception. But it looked real and many people were ready to run to higher ground. This induction made use of collective firmware, projection and potential.

But since the real change has to occur within, reaction to the outside, although getting our attention, maintains separation and potential. One is suppose to separate the movie and deal with it internally. But if this is not done the tension remains. I would guess that homosexuality is based on projection and unconscious potential due to separation from the genetic firmware. I infer this because this behavior is not self sustaining but need medical props not found in nature or else it self eliminates.

Here is how it works, we do a behavior that needs science and medicine to prop it up, but which deviates from the firmware. This sustains the behavior while maintaining a potential. The potential is mistaken for natural due to projection.

 

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If one has a hereditary orientation to find the same sex attractive instead of the opposite sex, then it isn't a choice when one lives out that orientation. It is simply being who by nature you really are. There is no sense of anyone choosing between two equally viable alternatives. We have all known effeminate boys since elementary school. Boys who always grow up to be gay. Are you saying these boys chose to act effeminate and to become gay in spite of the overwhelming stigma and bullying over it? That's ridiculous. Even allowing for environmental factors, we are talking an orientation that is etched into the brain and incapable of being changed. People don't choose who to be sexually attracted to. It's hardwired into their very nature.

 

If you had the religious majority of your culture condemning omnivorism as perverted, disgusting, unmanly, and worthy of eternal damnation then an ominvore would most definitely be subject to depression and suicidal ideations. Considering the amount of bullying that goes on in schools of gay kids, it is little wonder they sometimes commit suicide. Attacking one's ability to love and find a soulmate strikes at the very root of who you are. It is the dehumanization and delegitimization of your very being. Small wonder then that suicide would often be considered the only viable option for such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTiBv99MYDk

 

Which is one of my problems with the DSM. A vegan might pick up the DSM-73 and say "no, it's listed right here - omnivorism is a DISORDER." Enough of that sort of treatment and the person might _become_ suicidal because society is treating him as a disorder, a person with a problem.

 

That is just it, since academia seems to accept the self-reported, subjective, and anecdotal evidence from the LGBT community itself, no studies are being conducted to determine anything which may cast doubt on the LGBT activist position.

There are no studies of adequate scientific rigor to conclude whether sexual orientation change efforts work to change a person's sexual orientation. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality#Sexual_orientation_change_efforts​

Like I said, there is no significant evidence that the lack of choice in abnormal (or non-typical if you like) sexual orientations is substantially different from any compulsion (where the lack of choice is equally self-reported). In lieu of empirical evidence, skepticism is warranted, and the default position of the skeptic is the null hypothesis that one atypical compulsion is not significantly different from another.

What I meant was that if you wanted to call someone whose objectivity is only swayed by actual empirical evidence, instead of just subjective, self-reported anecdote, an asshole, then you may want to examine why you accept the later as evidence.

I appreciate the apology. I would only hope that words like "homophobic" would be saved for explicit cases of anti-gay sentiment (gay-bashing) rather than just a differing opinion in light of a lack of evidence.

 

So you find a study that you admit did not address environmental factors, and you just assume there are no significant environmental factors? Convenient.

Remember what I posted about the author of that study freely admitting non-biological factors are relevant?

STANFORD -- Research into the biological basis of sexual orientation "presents a clear double message. Yes, genetics plays a part. No, it is not all genetics," Dora B. Goldstein, professor emeritus of molecular pharmacology, told the audience that attended the first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Medical Center's Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Community on March 9.

"This shouldn't be too surprising because that is what all kinds of behavioral studies indicate. Genes determine everything. The environment affects everything. Then there is this big area where the two interact," she added. - http://news.stanford.edu/pr/95/950310Arc5328.html​

 

Really? So why do we not find all people labeled with any of a wide variety of disorders equally at risk for suicide? Eating, mood, dependence, etc. disorders are not equally likely to be suicidal.

 

Because not everyone reads the DSM. Indeed, it is a very small part of the overall problem with the "disorder-ifying" of everything, and in fact is more a reflection of the problem than a source. Homosexuality put people at serious risk of mental (and physical) health problems because they were a very persecuted minority. In many cases they were thrown in jail, and throwing anyone in jail will generally increase their risk for suicide (and for other mental health problems.) Indeed, in some cases they were badly beaten, and physically abused people are at higher risk for suicide. In some cases they were just plain murdered, thus skipping the whole "abuse - depression - suicide" cycle and moving along more quickly to the result.

ANYONE in society who is targeted for abuse will tend to see a higher incidence of mental health issues.

Right. Some people go their whole lives just being overweight, never being told they have a serious disorder. That's not ideal - they might well die early - but it puts them at less risk of abuse and the subsequent mental health issues than, say, a gay person who grew up in the 1970's.

 

Correlation does not imply causation. Even while society is becoming more tolerant (gay marriage, EEO protection, etc.), homosexual suicide is still on the rise. But even lesbians being at higher risk is mirrored in heterosexual women, so a gay man being more effeminate would seem to simply weight his risk more toward that of women in general. So maybe being gay only exacerbates the gender disparity in suicide risk. Either way, it does not seem to be wholly environmental.

 

You seem to know all about the environmental factors causing homosexuality. So go ahead and cite some scientific studies identifying them. We're all ears.

 

Homosexuality is neither a disorder nor a ‘fetish.’ Why is it being debated as such?

 

Homophobes have been trying to attach homosexuality to mental illness since the beginning of psychology. Fortunately this was all disproven by one Dr. Evelyn Hooker in the 1950's, ultimately resulting in the removal of homosexuality from the DSM in the early 1970's.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/02/myth-buster.aspx

"In 1953, Evelyn Hooker, PhD, applied for a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant to conduct research on “normal homosexuals.” During this period of American history, Sen. Joseph McCarthy was seeking out communists wherever he suspected they might be lurking; homosexual acts were a crime; bomb shelters were springing up in backyards; and the term “normal” homosexual was thought to be an oxymoron. A variety of medical and psychological treatments to “cure” homosexuality were employed, including ice pick lobotomies, electroshock, chemical castration with hormonal treatment or aversive conditioning. Gay parties were raided by the police, particularly in election years when a crackdown on “sexual perversion” was seen as a positive step in the fight on crime.

Hooker’s proposal to study gay men began as a result of a close friendship she developed with a former University of California, Los Angeles, student, Sam From, who introduced her to the gay subculture. She became one of the heterosexuals “in the know.” It was From who told her it was her “scientific duty” to study homosexuals and promised her access to all the subjects she needed. Initially she demurred but eventually, with the encouragement of From and her colleague Bruno Klopfer, Hooker began an investigation that would ultimately result in the removal of homosexuality as a form of psychopathology from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III of the American Psychiatric Association. This research was the culmination of Hooker’s lifelong interest in social justice."

 

I know. Such offensive nonsense shouldn't be permitted here.

 

As society becomes more accepting of gay orientation, more and more young people are coming out and encountering bullying and homophobia as a result. It's this new openness of young gay people that is making them easier targets of hatred and bigotry. That explains any alleged increase in the suicide rate.

Then again, since correlation doesn't entail causation, one cannot really say that being gay in and of itself CAUSES suicidal tendencies. You'd have to raise a gay kid in a completely non-homophobic world to find that out. And such a world does not exist.

 

If you were not biased by a forgone conclusion, you could easily find this for yourself:

Peter Bearman showed that males with a female twin are twice as likely to report same-sex attractions, unless there was an older brother. He says that his findings support the hypothesis that less gendered socialization in early childhood and preadolescence shapes subsequent same-sex romantic preferences. He suggests that parents of opposite-sex twins are more likely to give them unisex treatment, but that an older brother establishes gendersocializing mechanisms for the younger brother to follow. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_sexual_orientation#Childhood_gender_non-conformity

Researchers have provided evidence that gay men report having had less loving and more rejecting fathers, and closer relationships with their mothers, than non-gay men. Some researchers think this may indicate that childhood family experiences are important determinants to homosexuality...

A 2006 Danish study compared people who had a heterosexual marriage versus people who had a same-sex marriage. Heterosexual marriage was significantly linked to having young parents, small age differences between parents, stable parental relationships, large numbers of siblings, and late birth order. Children who experience parental divorce are less likely to marry heterosexually than those growing up in intact families. For men, same-sex marriage was associated with having older mothers, divorced parents, absent fathers, and being the youngest child. For women, maternal death during adolescence and being the only or youngest child or the only girl in the family increased the likelihood of same-sex marriage. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_sexual_orientation#Family_influences

According to several studies, each older brother increases a man's odds of developing a homosexual orientation by 28%–48%. Most researchers attribute this to prenatal environmental factors, such as prenatal hormones. McConaghy (2006) found no relationship between the strength of the effect and degree of homosexual feelings, suggesting the influence of fraternal birth order was not due to a biological, but a social process - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_sexual_orientation#Fraternal_birth_order​

 

You seem to know all about the suicide risk for homosexuals. So go ahead and cite some scientific studies identifying the increased risk factors. We're all ears.

 

Granted, but that does not increase its reliability, especially when concerted activism exists.

That too would be acceptable. Anything except demonizing anyone who questions the activist position that it is mostly or wholly genetic (as Magical Realist seems to). That is nothing more than ad hominem to poison the well.

I must not conform to the group of "most men" then. I have been "hit on" by gay men, mostly while living in Florida. Even in those instances including unwelcome physical contact, I did not overreact. I simply told them that they were barking up the wrong tree. So it is not necessarily warranted to just assume any given straight man is homophobic, simply because he does not believe that homosexuality if mostly or wholly genetic.

And I think you would have to admit that "scream and call the police" is hyperbolic.