A Huge Part of Sex That Makes a Lot of People Feel Ashamed — but Why?
Unfortunately, it’s all about gay and lesbian people, because people don’t research shame of heterosexuals too much.
So, if you look at the statistics, youth between the ages of 21 and 25, are eight times more likely to commit suicide if they feel marginalized because of their sexuality. That’s really mean.
In the sixteen states in 2005 that instituted constitutional amendments saying that gay marriage is wrong and banned, the statistics are kind of shocking. Depression in the gay and lesbian population in those states went from 23 to 31 percent. Generalized anxiety went from 3 percent to 9 percent. And alcohol abuse went from 22 to 31 percent. This hurts people. Sexual shame hurts people.
But that’s just gay people, so that’s the good news for the rest of us. Except that it turns out that gay people, are, in fact, just people.
So if sexual shame hurts gay people, it probably hurts straight people also.
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