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Thread #72325 Message #1247687
Posted By: *daylia*
14-Aug-04 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
Stilly, where do you see that katlaughing "answered" any of the quote above? The quote is not a question. It does not require an "answer". Nor is it an "assumption", as kat postulates.
It is a statement; a (grim) hypothetical situation depicting a homosexual "family" created in response to Two Bear's (grim) hypothetical situation depicting a foster home. And it is, unfortunately, a hypothetical situation formed of a lifetime of personal experience.
Sexual self-gratification is not the only form of self-gratification, Stilly. The gratification of the personal, innate biological urges toward reproduction, of "environmental" urges toward the personal / social benefits and status of parenthood -- these are examples of other forms of self-gratification.
Please understand that the hypothetical situation created in response to Two Bears post portrays these "parental", not to be confused with sexual, forms of self-gratification:
... being raised by people who (very possibly) care more about their personal self-gratification than any "horrid" effects the exercise of their new-found "right" to parenthood will (most likely) inflict on me?
What these hypothetical parents might hypothetically do / not do in their hypothetically gratifying /ungratifying hypothetical beds is a moot point and of no interest, to me anyway.
Jeri and LH, thank you very much for your insights.
daylia
PS Here's another example of non-sexual self-gratification
moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!
Ahhhhhhh .... gotta light? :-)