Do you think when a Religious Taboo is lifted from society..People will engage in it?

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Expert: More women are in relationships with other women
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Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it). 
Statistics on how many women have traded boyfriends and husbands for girlfriends are hard to come by. Although the U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of married, divorced, single, and even same-sex partners living together, it doesn't look for the stories behind those numbers. 

But experts like Binnie Klein, a Connecticut-based psychotherapist and lecturer in Yale's department of psychiatry, agree that alternative relationships are on the rise. 

"So it makes sense that we would see women, for all sorts of reasons, walking through that door now that the culture has cracked it open. Of course, we shouldn't imagine that we're living in a world where all sexual choices are possible. Just look at the cast of 'The L Word' and it's clear that only a certain kind of lesbian -- slim and elegant or butch in just the right androgynous way -- is acceptable to mainstream culture."

Actress Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson flaunted their relationship from New York to Dubai. Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" topped the charts. "The L Word," "Work Out," and "Top Chef" are featuring gay women on TV, and there's even talk of a lesbian reality show in the works.

Certainly nothing is new about women having sex with women, but we've arrived at a moment in the popular culture when it all suddenly seems almost fashionable -- or at least, acceptable.

robert p · Accepted Answer

Me shakes head. Oh brother also.


What is next:
kissing siblings
beastiality
pedophylia
etc.




People will do evil if allowed (especially if promoted).

KBC · Answer

To me, this is just another example of certain aspects of people's lives becoming fads. High school was when I started seeing more and more commercials about depression and medication for it. Suddenly students in my high school became "depressed" (especially when someone had broken up with a boy/girlfriend). They used the word and the condition so lightly, which made those who really had depression seem like a joke. Girls would say they're bisexual to try and impress guys (this isn't a new thing, actually). 

When something becomes popular or less of a taboo, some people think it's a fad and jump on the bandwagon. It doesn't make what they're doing right and it doesn't make what existed wrong (when my father was growing up, writing with your left hand was taboo).

Daniel · Answer

I've also heard that female to female relationships were on the rise.  We've had a few decades now of gay rights being taught in the schools, which is really teaching advocacy, that it's okay to engage in it.  We've raised up a society now where it's now seen as normal.  So, to answer your question, society has lifted that taboo and an increasing number have engaged in it.

It reminds me of the brain washing of children in Palestine to be suicide bombers.  Children's TV shows teach them to hate Jews and the honor of being martyred for Allah.  It goes along with Proverbs 22:6,  "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."  Young minds are impressionable, and we incorporate a lot of our values in our youth.  Thanks to our public education system many have accepted it as a viable lifestyle.  

As you mentioned, look at all the women in public who have an open "acceptable" homosexual lifestyle.  No wonder lesbian abominations are on the rise.

Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! · Answer

There is a difference between bisexuality and being gay or choosing the heterosexual lifestyle.  The article speaks of women who are mostly bisexual.  So, yes, when a same-sex taboo is lifted, you will have bisexuals feeling freer to love whomever they want.  None of this has anything to do with "creating" more gay people since you either are exclusively gay or you are not.

grownup · Answer

So why are you printing something that you read already?  You should have gotten the answer from the article.

People first came to America to worship God in their own way and had a lot of crazy ideas about different things.  Everything evolves sooner or later.  Things don't stay the same and changes happen.

Aingeal · Answer

If you read the thing about Kelly McGillis you'd note that she said she knew she was gay from age 12 and fought it.

And while their are some people who like to say they're bisexual for attention, bisexuality is natural and occurs in almost every sexual animal, including humans, known to man.

So no. They were something similar four years ago, and it turned out the study was faulty.

link955 · Answer

What is happening is we are growing up as a society, and abandoning the heinous fantasies of religion. Same-sex relationships have been going on since mankind walked upright. It's only religion that disapproves, and offers no legitimate excuses. What religion shows is yellow-bellied fear. 

Get used to it. You're going to see a lot more of it, and a lot fewer people caring what religion thinks.

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Anonymous · Answer

it is still an abomination in God's eyes but as a nation we are ignoring God and going after the flesh

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Do you think when a Religious Taboo is lifted from society..People will engage in it?

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