Why is homosexuality or even just sex in general such a massive deal

[Helmholtz Watson]

It's not to me either, but it's the fact that they were complaining about it not sticking to the book as a shield for homophobia. If they really believed that, they would have been complaining about all the other added sex scenes and deviations from the book.

Now I haven't seen the comments you were referring to so I could be wrong, but disliking guys kissing each other isn't homophobic. You don't have to be afraid or angry at gay people to find such scenes unappealing. It's a bit of a leap to brand them as homophobic. At best they are hypocritical for condemning one scene while saying nothing about another.

 

[Samus Aran but a man]

It's a big deal because of a bunch of closed-minded people that can't imagine someone being different.

 

[Woodsey]

Because as Stephen Fry has said, the religious are the anorexics and the morbidly-obese of sex (although he was speaking predominantly about Catholics in that context). Whereas others can accept that people have different tastes and they talk, think and do it accordingly, the religious obsess over it, and need that obsession to be verified so they can pretend they don't have an unhealthy problem.

If you'll notice, the target audience for media like Fox News or the Daily Mail is always the same: angry old people with nothing better to do than complain about the good old days and decry the loss of faith amongst the young.

Hilariously, I saw this about 2 minutes after I posted: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/brits-obsessed-sex-divorce-bishop-174831731.html

 

[sextus the crazy]

It's a big deal in the states because we're based on buncha puritanical... umm, puritans.

 

[Elamdri]

I just do not understand from a perspective of the media sex and homosexuality is this massive dirty thing that you can never talk about with an serious debate unless it is inherently negative in some way. It almost make me feel detached from reality in a way due to it being so absurdly blown out of proportion. It likely world if it was not for people in my day to day life that like I do honestly do not care about other people's sex lives.

I suppose my questions are why the discrepancy and why is it considered dirty or even deviant or shameful?

Puritans. Always puritans.

 

[Bravo 21]

Because babies. Straight people have to worry about children when they have sex, therefore, anything that results in other people not having to have the same fears as a puritanical few is deemed wrong.
But times are changing. Hopefully.

 

[Eamar]

As far as homosexuality goes: religion, pure and simple.

I'm not saying every religion or religious person is homophobic, but I don't know a single non-religious person who has an issue with homosexuality. I'm sure there are some, but it is overwhelmingly a religious thing.

 

[BishopofAges]

Because (fingerquotes) "Some People" believe that if you just let the subject of sex go then people will begin having it everywhere at everytime in everyposition. Sex will flood out into the streets and cause panic, up will become diagonal-down/right, street signs will bend/heave and change their contents (because they felt they were born as a yeild sign trapped in a stop sign's body), animals will burst into flames in protest of behavior that rightly belongs to them, the entire world will vibrate at a quicker level disolving atoms from one another and causing the polarity to shift and throw everyone out into space to die/survive as semi-aquadic/semi-spacial flux being with the powers of speed of light travel and oxymoronism. Rigth as all this seems to throw down, every religions 'lord and savior' will appear all at once bearing that one holiday/birthday present that everyone was waiting for, see the chaos that insued and shake their head, turn on a heel and leave thus forsaking everyone forever.

OR

More people will find a chance at love, have some sex, marrry (its gonna happen sooner or later), and live out their lives in a manner that it befitting of peace, love, and serenity.

(sarcasm) But who is the crazy jackhole who believes in Option 2? (/sarcasm)

captcha: make a bee-line, I suppose that is my que to exit ladies and gents!

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Because the thought of two consenting adults touching each other in the privacy of their own homes is sickening. And as someone who has no business in these matters, it offends me

I honestly don't know, I guess religion has something to do with it. Although a lot of religious texts I've read are quite open about sex (well not homosexually obviously) so I imagine the problem goes somewhat deeper. I'd personally would say it is down to embarrassment, in general talk about sex just makes people feel really uncomfortable.

 

[Charli]

I ask myself that alot, and figure I'm just not a person who gives a fuck.

Badum tish.

But really I'm not. Sex is silly.

 

[Thespian]

Because, in the (paraphrased) words of MovieBob,

Gays
ARE
WEIRD

And things that are different freak people out so they justify it by including it in some religious dogma or something and so the bias piggy-backs on that dogma and gets embedded in society

 

[thisbymaster]

Why is sex a big deal, you seemed to have failed history class. All of science, politics religion and civilization is based around the control, creation or regulation of sex.

 

[CODE-D]

I just do not understand from a perspective of the media sex and homosexuality is this massive dirty thing that you can never talk about with an serious debate unless it is inherently negative in some way. It almost make me feel detached from reality in a way due to it being so absurdly blown out of proportion. It likely world if it was not for people in my day to day life that like I do honestly do not care about other people's sex lives.

I suppose my questions are why the discrepancy and why is it considered dirty or even deviant or shameful?

Same reason I wanna know why the escapist members dont think sex is a big deal?
It is to me, is there something wrong with that?

As for the homosexuality, I have no opinion.

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

Because it's the most important thing in the world.

You are(and I am) primarily a biological creature. A biological creature that has an evolutionary history that consists mainly of the most sexually prolific of those who came before us. Those that didn't care about sex didn't really have kids. Thus, they were weeded out of the gene pool and only those with the genes that desired sex survived.

Evolution is concerned with only those who adapt enough to have babies. Everything after that is unimportant. Requiring food and shelter are means to an end. That end? Little squalling poop machines that have your eyes and your significant others chin. That's it. That's the goal.

Technological luxuries have led to us casting off our more base natures. We're more free to put procreation on the back burner, while still engaging in that biological drive to have sex. Sex is still ridiculously important to you, but having children comes with responsibilities; responsibilities that a lot of people find distasteful.

But it's more than that. Society has required of people that they preform their baby making duties within certain confines. Those confines are called "marriage." Why? Because the most health, the strongest, the most well-adjusted, and overall best off people are people that come from a stable, two parent family(specifically, a mother and a father). A child with a nurturing mother that spends her time taking care of it while its father is off providing the means by which the nurturing mother can spend that time taking care of it, is immensely better off than a child that doesn't have one of those or both. Evolution has selected for such a partnership, because of how insanely strong such a foundation is for the young.

Homosexuality, on the other hand, is deviant behavior. Regardless of if you believe that you were "born that way" or not, lusting after something that will not produce offspring is contrary to, frankly, evolution. If you're not making babies, you're doing something wrong. Creating children is the biological reason for the act of sex. This, along with humanities biological preference for people to "conform" helps people to stigmatize and reject people that aren't like them. Thus leading people to look down upon homosexuals, as they aren't "like them."

It's pretty simple, really.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Because humans are weird and pussy-ass bitches. You know...shit like that.

*sigh* I don't know. I'm tired and should be going to bed. Fuck the Earth.

 

[Realitycrash]

Because the Bible and other scriptures says it's a big deal, and people tend to make THOSE a big deal.
Honestly, it's pretty-much that, or lingering effects of a society where they once held sway (i.e there are still homophobes in secular nations, even those with very few believers, because the cultural norm hasn't fully changed yet)

 

[Flizzick]

Because here in the good ole US of A primal instinct is disgusting and evil and should be repressed at all costs

 

[shootthebandit]

not gay i cant even imagine being gay the thought disgusts me but im not homophobic its just my personal preference however the thought of others being gay is not an issue i say let them be gay and if they are happy who is to say otherwise.

infact i have respect for gay people because they dont have to put up with women. all gay men watch this instructional video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQW7-Hyhbk

 

[shootthebandit]

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