From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 02:28:07 MST
It appears as if Harvey Newstrom <newstrom@newstaffinc.com> wrote:
|
|Homosexuality occurs in a certain percentage of rats, dogs, pigs, monkeys,
|dolphins, goats, sheep, and lots of other species. Some monkeys who have
|been taught sign language have engaged in homosexuality, prostitution
|(negotiating food for sex), and lying about sexual behavior and eating
|behavior.
What definition do you use for ``homosexuality''?
(a) A unit engaging in sexual acts _only_ with the same sex,
(b) A unit engaging in sexual acts _also_ with the same sex, or
(c) Something else?
I have the feeling that some on this list use the funny definition method,
also use to define Negro, namely that the define X (e.g. Negro, or gayness)
as _inclusive_.
E.g. they define the offspring of a Negro and Caucasian as a Negro, a person
who engage in both homosexual and heterosexual acts as a homosexual, and so on.
It indicates that their concept world defines a ``normal'' state and an
``abnormal'' state, and any ``abnormal'' contents define the object as
member of the ``abnormal'' set.
Such a concept world seems rather non-transhuman, wouldn't you say?
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