Replying to Avatar Jeff Swann

There is a serious problem around the issue of sexuality in conservative christian culture. There is this idea that all sexual desire &/or efforts to address sexual desires is sinful. Because of this many feel guilty thinking about sex at all which can have some really bad side effects. One of which is just a general lack of knowledge & understanding related to their own sex drive. If you deny it even exists you certainly can't learn to deal with it in a healthy way. So they push much of their sex drive into their subcounsious where the lack of awareness causes it to become even more unhealthy & distorted & to haunt them from the shadows. In this way, many Christians literally create their own demons.

The stereotypical Christian relationship with sex is fairly analogous to anorexia or bulimia. But often, as a reaction & rejection of the dysfunctionality around sex in Christian culture, people on the left become "sexually obese," for lack of a better way to explain it. Both are very unhealthy. This sexual obesity devalues the act into something akin to a handshake & that has an equally negative impact on mental health.

In the case of coaches or priests, there is nothing inherently sexual about those roles or their relationship to kids or other people. Yes, of course, if any of them are guilty of having sexual relationships with kids, they should be killed or castrated or whatever is necessary to keep them from ever doing that harm again. But drag queen shows are, & always have been, inherently sexual performances. Attempts to pluck sexual performers out of their normal setting & to make children see them as trusted adults or as some form of role models is *extremely misguided,* to phrase it as nicely as I can.

There is a high correlation between homosexuality & different forms of abuse. The homosexual community has a very real pedophilia problem that few people have any desire to acknowledge or address. People who feel the need to wear costumes all the time are rarely healthy individuals who are happy with themselves. Actors & actresses (professional pretenders) also tend to be pretty screwed up people. Now, I think all of those are accurate statements, but they are based on broad generalizations. Just like if I said judging by the demographics of the NBA, black people must generally be better at basketball than whites. Broadly generalized facts are not bigotry. But NONE of that means we should treat any individual who is or identifies as any of those things any differently (which would be bigotry), UNLESS they are trying to unnaturally insert themselves into activities involving kids.

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I see how you would come to the conclusions that you have, with the beliefs that you have. From the research I’ve done on the subjects this touches on and the data that I’ve analyzed, I don’t hold the same underlying beliefs and have therefore come to different conclusions. We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

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