• Coffee Junky ❤️@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Do you think people that are gay are mentally ill? Do you think those people choose specifically to be attracted to people from the same sex? A lot of the same things can de said about people that are attracted to kids.

    I’m not trying to say we should in any shape or form tolerate child abuse. But it’s important that we recognize that there are people like this and they didn’t choose to be that way. People have no problem to talk about punishment, but don’t like to also accept that they are also victims in a way.

    • trevron@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      No, being gay is absolutely not a mental illness. But there are those who are mentally ill that think they are gay when they are not or were abused in a way that caused them to fear/be repulsed by the opposite sex in a major way.

      But being gay is also not a fetish and absolutely not comparable to being a pedophile.

      Pretty insulting to the gay community tbh.