My account of The Homophobic Mind, presented seriatim below, may now be more easily accessed in a reformatted version: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/BIB/Hompho/index.html
posted by Dyneslines at 8:17 AM
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
About Me
- Name: Dyneslines
- Location: NEW YORK, NY, United States
I like to consider myself a citizen of Cosmopolis, ranging widely across the humanities. I have traveled to 45 countries, and speak five languages. Out of self-interest, I am concerned with current affairs in my own country. Writing is important to me: I have published seventeen books (including edited volumes). My beginning the blog coincided with my retirement. No longer muzzled, I felt, by the demands of being a salaried professor, I gave vent to my untrammeled opinions. Sometimes, perhaps, too much so--but it is my right, all the same. Here is an appropriate motto from La Fontaine: Est bien fou du cerveau qui prétend contenter tout le monde et son père. ("The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey"). For my work in linguistics see the revised (electronic) version of Homolexis at www.williamapercy.com/homolexis/index.php?title=Main_Page; for the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, see: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/BIB/EOH/index.htm. See also the electronic version of my 1987 book, Homosexuality: A Research Guide (/www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/BIB/ResGde/main.htm).
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- A5. According to Leviticus, homosexuality is an a...
- A6. Homosexual conduct is inherently sinful. A. ...
- A7. Homosexuality is the work of the Devil. A. ...
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1 Comments:
Hi,
1. From a libertarian perspective, would it be OK to have sex in public? You mention in the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism that, provided the owner of the space allows it, there would be no problem. Now, consider a public park: would it be OK to have sex there? Mill's harm principle would suggest that, inasmuch as no one suffers here, sex in public would be fine. But, I wonder: is there any evidence that children watching sex in public suffer psychological damage? Apparently, this happens all the time in tribal societies, and children see chimpanzees have sex in zoos, with no psychological damage whatsoever, but I still wonder.
2. I suppose you reject Lord Devlin's stance against homosexuality on account of disgust. I suppose you, along with Martha Nussbaum, do not accept a morality based on mere disgust. But, I wonder, again from a libertarian perspective: should the State leave alone someone that publicly drinks blood or eats feces?
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