Watch this be the last article on the issue you ever see.
The estimate derives from "The Social Organization of Sexuality," a 1990 study, that found that 3.9 percent of American men who had ever been married had had sex with men in the previous five years.
Evil, evil disease mongerers, right?
"These men genuinely love their wives," said Joe Kort, a clinical social worker in Royal Oak, Mich., who has counseled hundreds of gay married men, including a minority who stay in their marriages. Many, he said, considered themselves heterosexual men with homosexual urges that they hoped to confine to private fantasy life.
"They fall in love with their wives, they have children, they're on a chemical, romantic high, and then after about seven years, the high falls away and their gay identity starts emerging," Mr. Kort said. "They don't mean any harm."
Wrong.
The article ultimately presents the sane position...
Helen Fisher, a research anthropologist at Rutgers University, said in an interview that human partnerships are shaped by three independent neurochemical brain-body systems, responsible respectively for sexual attraction, romantic yearning and long-term attachment.
"The three systems are very fickle. They can act together, or they can act separately," Dr. Fisher said. This, she said, helps explain why people can be wildly sexually attracted to those they have no romantic interest in, and romantically drawn to — or permanently attached to — people who hold no sexual interest.
"Once the system is triggered, it's so chemically powerful that you can easily overlook everything about that person that doesn't work for you," Dr. Fisher said. "Even straight people have fallen in love with people they could never make a life with," she said.
...and it's possible this information is new enough that general ignorance of it is excusable. I am pleased a popular movie about white guys on the downlow raised the opportunity for its dissemination; because I'm actually pretty sure this information predates that dumbness, I'm a little annoyed (but not surprised) it took a popular movie about white guys on the downlow to get it out there.
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I doubt this will be the
I doubt this will be the last article. Homosexuality is such an essential part of western culture - it ain't goin' nowhere. I'd expect hundreds of these until it becomes "normalized." Angels in America featured this very story line. The tide is high, don't get wet.
Yeah. It may not be the last
Yeah. It may not be the last article on this matter, but what, I believe P6 is trying to intimate is that, perhaps, this is the last article to be widely available for public debate and exploration or instead of being downplayed from public for consumption, which is usually the case for such 'pathologic behavior as in the "silent meth epidemic" gripping their community.
But T3 is right too. Maybe
But T3 is right too. Maybe we're trying to establish who the good and bad hidden homosexuals are. Good = keeps it clean and quiet.
Be a lot simpler if everyone could just be what they're comfortable being.
True. I, too, actually
True. I, too, actually agree with T's assessment of the crux of the matter