Well I'm sorry but people are more diverse than is convenient. Quite why not only our society but every society produces Ted Bundys, Heinrich Himmlers, Jimmy Savilles - Idon't know. But that is my observation. I do remember that my Dad , an ex CID detective earnestly believed what Dr. Webster (who along with Keith Simpson, Francis Camps and Sydney Smith were the top brains in forensic science in the 1950's) that homosexuality was a dread illness and that anal intercourse would inflict ultimately fatal wounds. I have seen so much change, in my lifetime. of 'educated opinion' on the subject of sexuality that I don't think its wise to be too sure of anything. Certainly Ru Paul's Drag Race and First Dates including gays as mainstream entertainment, weren't on the horizon when I was born. I remember the disension caused by a book called Towards a Quaker View of Sex, which called for toleration of gays in the early 1960's . I was front page news and in our little Quaker Meeting House in Spalding, it caused outrage. Although some of the elders were surely gay. I don't know where we'll be in another 50 years, however I know I wouldn't care to guess.
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