{"id":18133,"date":"2022-03-07T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18133"},"modified":"2022-03-09T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:13:02","slug":"ive-been-having-a-discussion-online-whether-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/03\/07\/ive-been-having-a-discussion-online-whether-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been having a discussion online whether homosexuality&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(not being homoromantic, just someone being sexually attracted to a body part of the same gender) is a paraphilia. I myself am gay, so for me, it&#8217;s not, but the opposite team did make a few fair points. I wanted to hear your opinion on it. I mean, I don&#8217;t think it matters whether homosexuality is a paraphilia or not, no one needs to know what you do in bed with whom and why, if there is consent. And the thing I hate about trying to find the &#8220;gay gene&#8221; is that, when we find it, what? Why do we need to be born gay to need to be accepted?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Completely agree that what consenting humans do sexually is none of anyone&#8217;s business, and that whether homosexuality is genetic is irrelevant. I still find &#8220;I&#8217;m not gay I just like [same sex body part]&#8221; to be a weirdly objectifying thing to say. But if you want to get into the science of it, you could start with something like the APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology. <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-apa\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-apa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(not being homoromantic, just someone being sexually attracted to a body part of the same gender) is a paraphilia. I myself am gay, so for me, it&#8217;s not, but the opposite team did make a few fair points. I wanted to hear your opinion on it. I mean, I don&#8217;t think it matters whether homosexuality &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/03\/07\/ive-been-having-a-discussion-online-whether-homosexuality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve been having a discussion online whether homosexuality&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18156,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions\/18156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}