Re: Same Sex Relationships In SA Schools
A lot of the time journalists like to exaggerate and over sensationalise one or two cases for attention...
Hugging, kissing and sibling-love for the same gender is acceptable non-sexual behaviour in Muslim socities.. Paki girls in my class hugged, kissed and cried for each other when we finished last year at high school (yr 11), does that make them lesbians?
When we meet other Muslim boys we know at 'Eid we hug each other and if it's someone close like cousin, brother or bestfriend we even kiss each other on the cheek or peck on the neck.. Does that make us gay? No, not even bisexual guys are sick enough to have sexual thoughts about their friends because they are like your brothers.
It's true that in Islam culture homoerotic feelings are not classed as abnormal or unnatural and our Muslim society doesn't put demeaning labels like gay and lesbian on people just because of their feelings but acting upon those feelings is forbidden and those that have them are told to control them and it's very much possible for people to supress those evil thoughts and have platonic feelings and relationship with other guys, trust me I know.
yeah...but the thing is...they are confusing those normal, platonic emotions for sexual emotions. and they aren't isolated from anything. like that article mentions:
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"'What is surprising is that there was a married girl in her seventh month of pregnancy who was pursuing other girls to satisfy her sexual needs.
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how would you explain that? (oh when i say you i'm not refering to you specifically t-o-a).
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I agree with you that everyone has the potential to be gay, nobody is 100% gay or straight... Terms like gay and lesbian are western terms, in our cultures we don't class people as a different society just because of which gender they shag or want to shag..
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that's the definition of being homosexual. wanting to shag someone of the same gender! i do agree that sexual preference should be on a continuum, rather than a box that you check.
Why do some people find it hard to believe that there might be lesbians in SA? Whatever the reason for their "lesbianism", you can't deny something like that is happening. Turning a blind eye towards it, vehemently denying it isn't really going to do anything.
