Nirma Servellon Mrs. Oliver HUM 115 April 14, 2016 Homosexuality Today’s Point of View We are living in world where there is still a lot of discrimination against homosexual couples, where their relationship is an unnatural, where there is still a lot of misunderstandings against homosexual sex. In the essay by John Corvino, he writes about a homosexual couple living together for many years and some of the many misconstruction people have about homosexual relationships. John Corvino describes a homosexual couple who has been living together for more than fourteen years and are happily together. Just like any relationship they have their ups and downs and not like every couple they deal with people’s own opinions about their relationship. John Corvino starts off with the question of whether or not a homosexual relationship is natural or unnatural and who decides what is natural and what is unnatural. Is a homosexual relationship unnatural only because a group of people have mark it as that? No, I don’t think so, something that is unnatural to some may be natural to someone else. There are many things that are unnatural, and yet we as people don’t go as far as to condemn it. What does unnatural really means, well unnatural is defines as something that is contrary to the ordinary course of nature; therefore abnormal. Moreover, a homosexual relationship might be unnatural in the
sense that is not ordinary that it does not happen often, but even with that information it does not make homosexuality condemnable. Some people may even argue that just because animals do not engage in this type who relationships, it is unnatural for people to be engaging in homosexual relationships. With that information said, there have been plenty of researched proving that animals indeed participate in homosexual relationships, from dogs to lions and everything in between. Therefore, that argument is completely false and without any grounds. In website named debate.org and poll was made asking if homosexuality is unnatural or not. More than 50% of the people agree that homosexuality id unnatural, one person states that homosexuality is unnatural because if everyone turn gay then the world would cease to exist. Who are we to say that everyone is going to turn in to homosexual, we can’t know that for sure. It might be true that it would be unnatural if everyone became a homosexual, but in sense a homosexuals are not unnatural. He or she also states that animals don’t engage in homosexual relationships at least not on purpose. It states that a “male animal gives out a low grunt to let the other male it’s a male, thus the animal will stop its sexual intentions.” Well, we are already know that is not true since, like I said above there are proves of animals engage in those types of situations. In addition, are we really letting animals determine the standards that society should be held at? Another argument that can be argue is that homosexual sex is harmful. In a post by Dr. Eowyn, with information that was posted in an article called, “What They’ll Never Tell You in ‘Homosexual Education’.” He talks about how in reality homosexual can be very harmful. Dr. Eowyn states that in an article written by Dr. Diggs he warn that the consequences of homosexual sex are very high compare to a heterosexual relationship. Some of the issues that
homosexual sex can bring are very high rates of promiscuity, physical health, mental health, life span shorten. About 75% of white gay males claimed to have had more than 100 lifetime male sex partners. The physical health of a homosexual men can be deteriorated by many factors for example, anal intercourse, oral anal contact, human waste, fisting, and sadism. After reading the article and the information that it contain all I could think about was that, this might as well be a heterosexual relationship too. Can we really say that homosexual sex is harmful when a heterosexual couple can also be having the same type of sex as a homosexual men? It is true that the majority of people with AIDS are homosexual men, but that does not make homosexual sex harm because there are heterosexual people who have AIDS also. If we want to say that homosexual sex is harmful we should instead be saying that all type of sex is harmful. Furthermore, there is the argument that homosexuality violates biblical teaching, in the Bible it states that “men should not lie with men or women should not lie with women”, also that “the pig is unclean for you. Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch, they are unclean for you.” Both of these statements come from the bible and people only the statement about homosexual people have an issue with. People eat pork mostly every day of the week but those same people are the one that criticized the homosexual for being homosexuals. At the end of the day people who criticized other people for their orientations only want to see that they are right and not wrong. All in all, people should live their life like they choose, and we should all be able to accept one another. Like Mr. Corvino states people who don’t accept homosexuality, don’t accept it because it would be like giving up on what they have been thought that is wrong. Every relationship that is build weather is a homosexual or heterosexual relationship the end
result that they are looking for is to be love. Just like the relationship between Tommy and Jim they have beautiful relationship that they have built over fourteen years and their relationship is not immoral just because people have opinions and they want to give their two cents.
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