Originally posted by Lycanthrope
Ok Lets say Homosexuality Is not a mental deficiency and, even say its natural to be gay. Why does it disturb me to see , IN public or anywhere, men kissing? Please dont just come back with I'm a homophobe or closet gay. I have a girlfriend and 2 children and I am very attracted to women. It just turns my stomach. Now some of you will just say I'm a NAZI and gay hater but I'm really not. Like i said the only thing that makes someone Gay is what they do in bed. I do the same things with my friends a gay person would , just not in the bed. So why is there such an aversion to witnessing gay activity to the Majority of the populace ? I'm not arguing here. I would appreciate greatly if any one could explain this (scientifically as Chaos puts it) like they have on the other points i tried to make. Because i assumed, because of my personal reaction, that it was unnatural. Ive since been proved wrong and I would like to know what it is that makes it seem so wrong to me.(The seeing of it; not the being gay)
Conditioning and imagination, I would assume.
When you were younger you were taught that a man and a woman marry, that only those should also kiss. Maybe you were even taught that homosexuality is bad, who knows. Either way in your mind it is different, and different things strike us as odd. On top of it, you being heterosexual, do not want to kiss a man, you find the idea, when relating to yourself, distasteful (probably like kissing a really, really ugly girl ), so when you see it, you probably put yourself into their shoes, subconsciously, which, since you are heterosexual, you obviously won't enjoy and maybe even find sickening. I'd assume that's where it comes from. Again, like seeing two really, really ugly people make out...I don't know about you, but that kinda disgusts me.
And, of course, not saying that you are one, but there are secretly gay or at least bisexual people, who were taught how wrong it is, and when they (maybe even just subconsciously) find such actions attractive, they react much stronger in the opposite way due to the conditioning.
Finally there's obviously things as peer pressure, etc. But I think the first part probably explains why you find it sickening.