I Respect this Culture
It is no surprise that John Racy, a psychiatrist with much experience in Arab societies, has noted that homosexuality is “extremely common” in many parts of the Arab world. [1] Indeed, even though homosexuality is officially despised in this culture and strictly prohibited and punishable by imprisonment, incarceration and/or death, having sex with boys or effeminate men is actually a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. The key is this: the male who does the penetrating is not considered to be homosexual or emasculated any more than if he were to have sex with his wife, while the male who is penetrated is emasculated. The boy, however, is not considered to be emasculated since he is not yet considered to be a man. A man who has sex with boys is simply doing what many men (especially unmarried ones) do. [2] And this reality is connected to the fact that, as scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in Islamic-Arab societies is not about mutuality between partners, but about the adult male’s achievement of pleasure through violent domination. [3]
Link Here.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:51 am
well, in still other cultures, premarital sex is SUCH A HORRIBLE thing, that people decide to get married for the only reason of having sex, and then get divorced 15 times. That’s the same idiotic logic.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Kind of but actually no, not really. But thanks for playing!
August 30th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Why then are you pointing us to this link? What do you want to suggest with that? That people within cultures find explanations for their behavior, try to rationalize their behavior, and then act based on their own construction of beliefs? That’s what any culture does, in almost any regards of life. I can remember someone very clearly rationalizing about their own sexuality, just as a side note.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Its not the same logic cause in one case you have two consenting agents getting married for a purpose. In the case i linked to you have child being forced to have sex with men.
Even in cases where the boy consents its still not the same as two people of comparable age both agreeing to marry for the purpose of fornication. We rightly look down upon adults who engage in sexual relations with young children even in cases where the child ‘agrees’. The example you give assumes mutual consent something not present in me example.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:31 am
I agree
August 31st, 2007 at 12:50 am
yet:
rationalizations like these are not culturally bound to the Islamic natiions, as you seem to suggest.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:30 am
I don’t see such distinctions as rationalizations. I seem them as reasons for why some culture’s are superior to other cultures.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:02 am
superior? inferior? ja, combine that with Robert Rectors article, and you have your sick ideology completed. There is NO thing as an inferior culture, at least not in my frame of mind. Well, but I don’t put my hand on the heart when I sing the national anthem, either, and I do not encourage “marriage among native born Americans”. OH MY GOD.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:24 am
So then would you agree that different cultures are incomparable.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
My primary thought is, ok, maybe the girls don’t have it so bad, in comparison…