The linked blog post is a wonderful post that talks about six common things ignorant Christians often say about gay people. By ignorant, I mean those who don’t really know much/ if anything about gay people. I believe the author wants to draw a distinction between this type of person, who speaks out of ignorance, and the real homophobes, who have the agenda to harm gay people by spewing hate, misinformation, and shame-based speech. The distinction is a good one to make, in my opinion. The whole post is really worth your time.

But one point really caught my interest:

If you are bothered by imagining or thinking about “gay sex”, skip the next six paragraphs. However, if you bypass them, you may miss a primer on human sexuality that can be applied to your own “heterosexual lifestyle” for added enjoyment.

I’m not really arguing with anything said here, except I want to point out that so often, those who have a real issue with gay sex don’t see it as acceptable sex at all, and the primer isn’t going to help. For these folks, real sex, is always procreational, and neither the level of enjoyment of the partners, nor the biological ability for stimulation is relevant. Thus the silly “parts don’t fit/ electric cord” illustration.

From my perspective, this is the crux of the whole homosexual acceptance issue. When straight folks start to really get to know gay people, and start to see love between two people, then the “parts don’t fit” argument falls to pieces. Not because the person comes to a broader understanding of human sexuality and pleasure, but because they come to see how “parts” is such an insignificant part of real life and real life relationships.

Gay people, like straight people want sex and like sex, and at different periods of a person’s life and their relationships, sex plays a bigger or smaller role. But we all live 24 hours every day, 365 days a year, and the vast majority of our time as human beings is spent doing many things other than putting the “parts” together. This is true for procreational sex or recreational sex, or however else you want to describe sex.

As a culture, we abandoned long ago, the notion that procreational sex is the only acceptable way to generate new life. Fertility treatments, and other tools to assist couples who can’t make it work by procreational sex is one great example of this. But the folks who hold onto the “plugs don’t fit” fail to remember that.

It describes one type of sexual interaction; human sexuality is far more complex and beautiful than electricity.

I totally however agree that everyone can have a more fulfilling sex life if we come to accept that the human body and the sensual interactions between people is far more complex. As much as The Church doesn’t want to accept it, Sex is meant to be pleasurable, and unlike most all other mammals, human’s use of their sexual parts is very much aligned with pleasure. Electric cords, as much as it is an easy image, just doesn’t cut it at all as a real illustration.

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