[lit-ideas] Re: 2006 reading lists
- From: david ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:37:13 -0800
On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:16 PM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
It's funny.
Homosexual males are the nicest guys in the world. Women (well,
girls in College at least) adore them -- they are sensative, funny,
and won't try to force sexual relations. They're the best dates
out there.
Personally I have no ethical issue with homosexuality. God made
lots of different people in lots of differnt ways.
But I keep wondering why male sexuality strikes a blow to (both
female & male) guts where female homosexuality doesn't.
Men seem to be "turned on" by women loving women, while women are
most definately not remotely turned on by even notions, much less
pictures, of men engaging in intamcey.
Among the stranger scenes from my wife's medical education was a
special event in the "Human Sexuality" course. "Significant others"--
that would be me-- were invited, so we all piled into the auditorium,
passed around popcorn and watched "Behind the Green Door"--
heterosexual fare--a movie about older couples, a movie about gay
women, a movie about gay men, all explicit down the last detail of
who did what to whom. Perhaps because this was California, or maybe
the audience was extraordinarily broad-minded, but everyone seemed to
agree that it all looked very much like well-lubricated friction of
various kinds. Sex. Some of it seemed to involve intimacy and joy.
Some of it was merely motions.
So far into that generous state of mind was I, that when I called my
father to talk about early reports of a new disease I was covering
for the local newspaper--something newly called "AIDS"--he shocked me
by asking if I really wanted to write about "such matters."
The world changes only slowly.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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