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Decoding Gay Behaviour: Part I

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Source: The Hindu

 

After seeing a lot of traffic on my blog yesterday, I could make out 1 thing. Many people were interested in it. Today, in this post we will try to understand or deliberate – should we tolerate Gay behaviour or not?

After going through some articles on the origin of homosexuality, I was thoroughly confused. The confusion was primarily this – is homosexuality an adaptation or genetic trait. There have been many unsuccessful researches and findings till now and we are still unsure. So I turned to animals. I considered animals because if they displayed homosexual behaviour on instinct, then man being no different may be allowed to do so.

I delved into 10-20 popular articles and there were 2 broad schools of thought.

Thought 1 – Animals do exhibit homosexual behaviour very similar to humans.

Thought 2 – Animals do display homosexual behaviour like genital rubbing etc. but only to co-exist peacefully in society, after minor battles over food and territory.

A widely demonstrated example was that of Bonobos (member of chimpanzee family). You may read about both, in many articles on Google. I’m just listing down 2 better ones which offer both opinions.

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13674-evolution-myths-natural-selection-cannot-explain-homosexuality.html#.UqraHPQW3pt

 

http://www.narth.org/docs/animalmyth.html

 

Still, even if we consider both schools to be correct, there is another conflicting question…in animals we also see killing of babies and group mates which zoologists and wildlife scientists term as ‘Filicide’ & ‘Cannibalism’. Two typical examples are eating up of its eggs by snakes and killing of the previous cubs by the new leader of the pride, in case of lions.

If at all, we consider animals for this case too, then we have to permit ‘Infanticide’ too. We should also be ready to tolerate ‘Psychopaths’ and ‘Sociopaths’. Then again we have to resolve whether these 2 psychological problems are genetic or result of an adaptation/accident.

Not confusing my readers any further, I would like to end with the BIGGER question, which is

“How far should we go accommodating exceptions in our society?”

Whenever we come across the development of an aberrant group, will we be compliant every time? I repeat again, that I am not against gays/lesbians but if homosexuality is allowed then even eunuchs should be given a respectable place in society. Think over it.

 

 

Unhappiness is being Gay: Is the SC’s decision right?

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Source : The Hindu

Source : The Hindu

This post is dedicated to my 2 gay friends, one who is very open about his orientation & the other who still feels ashamed and afraid to admit that he’s gay, in public. I do not have a problem with any of them.

We have all heard the Apex Court’s ruling on section 377. For those who are still unaware of the facts, let me help you out a bit. The case went as follows. Delhi HC bench- Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya decriminalised same-sex relations or homosexuality in 2009. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled out the prior verdict completely, re-establishing the 150-year-old ‘constitutionally correct’ rule once again. Too sad, we are still forced to live in the same old times.

Anyways, you can read about the decision and other details in plenty, in news & in magazines. Everyone seems too excited to discuss the fuss. A majority of us are satisfied with the judgment. Why? Because GAYS are unnatural. They’ll infect the society with their abnormality. One of my friends was telling me that they’ll be responsible for spreading hepatitis-A worldwide. This is a logical argument, and we all respect logic. Before being too judgmental, bite on this: a majority of the world is having conventional sex and AIDS is also spreading in huge numbers proportionately. The disease whatever it may be, spreads due to lack of precaution or hygiene.

Another fear which many of my male friends including me have is this. We fear that once homosexuality is legalised it would be very difficult for us to intermingle in society in India. And particularly in India, because one we are overcrowded, two we have this bhaichara and both of them contribute to a healthy brotherly relationship between us. We are competing for scarce resources and positions; we can’t fight over sexual issues when we are standing butt to butt in the metro. We can’t shift in a shared auto, when 10 of us are squeezed into that three-wheeler. Knowing that my pillion rider on my two-wheeler is gay would stop making me offer lifts to strangers. There would be too many questions, too many doubts every time I see my friend fancying a pierced right ear. Slowly, we’ll have lesbians too. We have this innocuous principle followed in the typical middle class Indian families, of which I am a part too:-

‘Boys will play with boys; girls will play with girls.’

Once we allow homosexuality to flourish, ‘the playing’ would start on a serious note. But wait, that’s not the end of things. Someone will suddenly rise up one day and demand a special quota for the ‘GAY MEN’. And then how can we even dare to discriminate on the basis of gender. Lesbians would be given a reserved seat foremost. God knows who’ll get elected/nominated/selected for the respective posts/seats. I am sure the most glamorous and audacious ones would!

Having said this, I have a serious confusion. Are we born gay/lesbian or do we develop homosexuality? I want an expert to clear this. I know all of you reading this are experts on the subject, but I only want the officially certified ones to comment. Also, suggest a possible solution if someone is born gay or has developed into one. Counselling is the stupidest idea you can recommend for the latter. We all have seen the ‘sarkari nasha mukti kendras’ and how successful they are.

I do not intend to hurt any of the sentiments of my readers. I am not Gay and surely can’t imagine what they have to go through or they went through yesterday. But more importantly, I am not against the legalization of homosexuality and neither in favour of it; I am too confused and apprehensive at present. But so are all of us, aren’t we?