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Originally posted by Snakeeye@Jun 14 2005, 09:08 PM
Fine, how about behaviors that society finds acceptable if "normal" isnt good enough for you?
Walking around in everyday life wearing "assless chaps" is not normal or acceptable behavior by any reasonable definition society currently accepts. Most fetishes are also not considered normal or acceptable behaviour in the context of everyday public life. These are things that are normally conducted in private.
The point, which I apparently failed to properly convey, is that I was questioning a statement that made it appear - to me at least - that such kinks and fetishes are normal in the everyday lives of the gay community. Obviously this is false, and I was trying to convey that aside from sexual preference, the average gay person would act like the average straight person. Or, "otherwise normal." I thought Hakan was trying to make that very statement, but the wording came off strange to me.
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Walking around in chaps is acceptable to me and a lot of other people. Probably wouldn't be acceptable in a business setting but it's not like you get arrested for doing it in public. So I'm not sure how you can say it's not acceptable.
I disagree with your 2nd point as well. I think the gay community on average is probably more sexually uninhibited than the non-gay community on average. They are already "abnormal" in terms in sexual preference and it's probably less of a jump to try some fetish or kinky stuff when you're already bucking the trends. The gay people I've known are on average less sexually repressed than a lot of the non-gay people I've known.