The age of minorities

[CrossLOPER]

All of those are not traditional, including polygamy, polyandry, paedophilia, zoophilia and so on.

I wouldn't class child rape and animal abuse in the same group as a group of consenting adults, but when you compound upon this with:

But you are missing the point: I was arguing that whatever you do in bed is your own personal business (unless it hurts others). I don't see any reason to be proud of any of the sexual preferences and sport them for others to see.

As I have posted, repeatedly, those pride parades generally include marginalized groups that were, until fairly recently, deprived of basic rights because "they ain't right". The pride parade allows people to come out into the open and rejoice that things are improving.

I wish you would finally understand this. Just let them have it.

[Gilrandir]

Regarding your comment about "sport them for others to see," the issue is less one of sexual preference than identity.

I pity people whose identity is based solely on sexual preferences.

Many of those taking part in pride-parades do so to assert that they 'are who they are' and have a right to be acknowledged as being who they are publicly without recrimination.

Being a linguist I pay much attention to words. The word "pride" used to name the manifestation of identity is quite telling. For me.

I wouldn't class child rape and animal abuse in the same group as a group of consenting adults

Paedophilia =/= child rape. A child may be willing to engage in sexual intercourse with an adult. The same with animals. Which of course doesn't make either a norm. Although, looking at the attitude to homosexualism which has undergone a pivotal change recently one may never be sure.

The pride parade allows people to come out into the open and rejoice that things are improving.
I wish you would finally understand this. Just let them have it.

Where did you see me expressing a wish to abolish them? Let them have it as long as it doesn't impinge on others. What I argued, repeatedly, is that there is no sense to be proud of your sexual orientation. It is like being proud that you have two ears, square chin, curly hair or that you are a woman or an adult.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

...Paedophilia =/= child rape. A child may be willing to engage in sexual intercourse with an adult. The same with animals. Which of course doesn't make either a norm. Although, looking at the attitude to homosexualism which has undergone a pivotal change recently one may never be sure....

I noted them as fetishes that had been accepted in some traditional cultures or even required as part of religious practice. That was not an endorsement. As Strike noted, it is by our definition rape. In neither of those fetishes can the other participant provide informed consent.