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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:26:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
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(An interesting point to note is that all sexual behavior is inherently
disgusting. In fact, minus a couple of key arousal hormones, human beings
find all expressions of sex to be disgusting and repulsive, including the
most traditional heterosexual forms, even if prior to the loss of those
hormones they took great enjoyment in sex.
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Are you discussing some certain circumstance? I know people under
horomone-treatment for gender reassignment and people who’ve been surgically
gender-reassigned and they don’t report such repulsion. I know a woman who
had a radical hysterectomy who doesn’t report that repulsion.
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The article I read dealt with dysfunction related to clinical depression, and
didn’t describe the hormones as sex hormones specifically - so I conjecture that
by “arousal hormones” it was referring to something more along the lines of
seratonin.
There’re actually all kinds of basic biological functions that we find
disgusting if not conditioned to enjoy them - I’m reminded of the “food
aversion” that can result get if someone gets their nutrition intravenously
during the infant years during which their brain would normally be conditioning
itself to gain pleasure from eating.
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Little kids, prior to the
expression of these hormones in puberty, notoriously find even romantic
kissing to be gross,
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I call socialization. I know several kids -- my own, in particular, who were
raised in sexually open households who do not display that tendency. I did
when I was a kid, so I totally know what you mean, but my ten year old son
has never done so and is completely comfortable with sexual topics.
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All right, I’ll hand you that one, I was stretching to find some kind of
hypothetical examples. But on the other hand you have to admit that from an
objective standpoint, there’s still a lot about sex that’s pretty disgusting.
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| (...) Are you discussing some certain circumstance? I know people under horomone-treatment for gender reassignment and people who've been surgically gender-reassigned and they don't report such repulsion. I know a woman who had a radical (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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