I wouldn't really be bothered if they preferred sheep, so long as they did their job well and didn't do it in a "public" place (and in that I don't mean also a meet-a-sheep bar). But doing it in public bogs is so seedy and unwholesome. Why do it there when there are bars and clubs, or just cruising down a known venue, like that Key in FL, in which you can meet others of the same persuasion legally.

>I think you define deviant behavior as that which is outside the norm. Studies have shown homosexuals make up about 3-5% of the population in males. The act that defines them is one that makes my stomach turn, and I think it is clearly deviant.

Which act?

>The population is not necessarily growing more homosexual, but more tolerant of whatever people want to do (in the privacy of their own home). Having said that, I don't think most people want a senator who is having homosexual or heterosexual trysts in a restroom. That, to me is also deviant.

Talking of acts, btw, it's been brought to our attention that this year it's 40 years since the act of parliament was brought out that made homosexuality no longer illegal, with 2 consenting adults (over 21), but only in the privacy of their own home. It wasn't all that many years ago that the age limit was brought down to 18 (maybe less now) in realistic recognition of the situation. I'm not sure of the enforcement of " privacy of their own home" bit now (or if that still exists), as it's all openly flaunted (I live in Brighton, 2nd city for gay - a bit like SF, and they have a HUGE Pride day every August).

On thing that surprised me was the fact that, before, men could go to prison - for LIFE - for being caught in flagrante delecto. Didn't they have better uses for cells in those days?

I don't know how much this is known but in Queen Victoria's reign, when homosexuality was made illegal, she was presented with a bill to make it so for male and female. She took one look and stated that women couldn't sink to such depths and crossed that part out. Hence it became illegal only for men all this time.

Anyhow, it's understandable that men had to resort to "cottaging" back in the bad old days. But why do they continue to do it now?

The other "deviant" behaviour I hate is "rough trade". When I was 2 decades younger and first came to Brighton, I was going down to the beach one night (supposed to be a beach party) and took this zig-zag path through a manicured bushy slope down to the beach. It was suddenly very dark (the street lamp had been disabled) and every 10 feet or so there was the lit end of a cigarette in the blackness, to denote the presence of what I subsequently discovered to be each "rough trader". Well I PLUMMETTED down that path and burst out into the fresh air, my heart going 60 to the dozen and my sphincter going dime-silver dollar!

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>>Maybe, but it's hard to tell from that. Of course, it also depends on what you call 'deviant'. Face it. While I can't see the attraction myself, homosexuality is becoming more and more a 'normal' way of life. As long as it doesn't affect me personally, I couldn't possibly care less what consenting adults get up to - especially when they keep it private.
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>>After all, when a man and a woman have sex privately, it's not a big deal, but if they were to start doing it in public, it would be a different story. Same with homosexuality afaic.