re: #276 Obdicut

I don’t care. I always think self-knowledge is a good thing, but I really don’t care.

Self-knowledge is not always a good thing. I don’t know how heroin would make me feel. I intend not to find out.

But WRT the subject at hand, I do not begrudge your opinion, but I personally think that sexual exploration outside of a long-term, committed relationship is not worth the self-knowledge. Surely your statement has bounds even in this context. For example, i don’t know if it would turn me on to pick up a female prostitute with seven toes. I don’t intend do procure that knowledge.

I do think that children should be taught that they might be gay, and if they are, it’s perfectly fine to be that way. Or to be bi.

I have found that the tendencies begin to manifest themselves before I am ready to have that conversation in any more depth than what I already have “sometimes there are boys who like boys, and that’s ok…”

Reinforcing the pre-existing tendency is neither an unsound philosophy, nor one I am cautious about defending, nor one that can’t be executed without pillorying the alternative.