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Nov. 20, 2006 An article that appeared recently in the webzine “World Science” notes that homosexuals may show a greater proclivity than heterosexuals for compulsive gambling as well as substance-abuse problems like alcoholism and drug-addiction. The author of the article poses the question whether these other conditions are merely other elements of a constellation of morbid conditions that afflict some people, or whether they arise because of the discrimation that homosexuals suffer. In other words, is homosexuality basically wholesome but for the the socially-induced neuroses that accompany it, or is homosexuality just one of the symptoms of a basically unwholesome condition of mind, whether inborn or developed? Being an atheist, I don’t believe in any doctrine of good and evil, but I do believe things may be wholesome or unwholesome, either for the individual or for society at large, but surely I’m no expert on homosexuality. Anyway, the article brought to mind a Cuban man who lived in Florida in the 1990’s. This elderly man was a professor and department head at a university in Florida, and was fluent in a number of languages, English and Spanish, of course, but also several others. He had written a book in English on a medieval philosopher, and upon looking the book over, I found the diction so perfect that I would never have guessed the book had been written by a foreigner. This man was not a substance-abuser, but he had a friend, a younger man, who used to render sexual services in consideration of having his own cocaine habit bankrolled. In other words, the professor was the “sugar daddy” and the younger man was the “stud”. I suppose I can imagine that the professor felt there was a genuine tenderness between them, but what if the younger man said to himself, “I’ll give this old punk all he wants as long as he keeps coming up with the green.”? If the stud thought that way, which surely wouldn’t have been surprising to me, as I’ve known a few like that, I would hesitate to call their relationship tender love or the similitude of wedded bliss, a perfectly delightful alternative to man-woman relations. But that wasn’t the end of it. The professor, despite being a university department head and earning enough to put in the highest-percentile of salary- and wage-earners, felt that he suffered discrimination in the US. For some reason, he liked Germany. I don’t know whether he was eligible to teach in Germany, but he dreamt of settling there. What he wanted to do was hit it big at the track, and pick up a nest egg that would enable him to live out his years independently in Germany. So after he bankrolled his boyfriend’s cocaine habit, whatever money was left over was squandered at the track. He was close to Gulfstream Racetrack in Hallandale and a short drive from Hialeah, and that’s where he blew the last of his money. Supposedly he was always trying to borrow $5 or $10 till payday. I don’t know if this man is representative, though there are definitely many homosexuals who are involved in activities like this. I won’t even say that I consider this wrong. But this is certainly not the sort of life-style that appeals to me. Also, I’d hesitate to say that there is no reason whatsoever to inhibit the momentum for total acceptance of homosexuality. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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