Nature or nurture

[jimpeel]

Oh, I see where you're coming from, I guess. Don't agree, but ok.

So, is someone also a latent heterosexual until 'consumated'?

By Spike's determined definition, yes. The fly in that ointment, however, is that the term appears nowhere in any scientific, psychiatric, or medical journal that I can find. "Latent homosexual" is a term that can be found in all of the above.

Saying "latent heterosexual" is simply one more of the oft repeated tit-for-tat responses that regularly appear on these pages. As an example: one says "muslim fanatics" and the response is "Christian fanatics", etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Saying "latent heterosexual" is akin to saying "male boy" or "female girl" or "canine dog" or "feline cat". One can say these things but that doesn't make it correct in everyday usage. "Latent homosexual" can, however, be found in everyday usage.

The term was used as the title of a humorous Broadway play by Paddy Chayefsky and was a simple takeoff of the term "latent homosexual"; but that does not give credence or legitimization to the term. If so, the term could be found within seconds with a few keystrokes.

 

[chcr]

By the by ... "active homosexual" is a common term for sexually active homosexuals and, for those of you who do not know what that means, it means that they currently have sexual -- yes actual, physical, touchy-feely, sexual -- relations with other men or women.

If someone is already a homosexual, when described as a "latent homosexual", why then is there any need whatsoever to refer to active homosexuals as "active homosexuals" as differentiated from latent homosexuals?

Thank you. You made my point quite well. The reason, Jim, that there are different terms is that some homosexuals are active while some are not. You make the point yourself that they are in fact all homosexuals.

 

[paul_valaru]

Am I the only person on this board who knows the meaning of "latent"?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/latent

no, we just disagree with your use of it.

if we use it your way, we are all the latent dead.

or even latent homosexuals, because we have not yet consumated it (summer camp doesn't count right? lol)

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

no, we just disagree with your use of it.

if we use it your way, we are all the latent dead.

or even latent homosexuals, because we have not yet consumated it (summer camp doesn't count right? lol)

*is eternally thankful he never attended summer camp with paul...*

 

[paul_valaru]

*is eternally thankful he never attended summer camp with paul...*

what? I think you would have enjoyed the northern, jewish religious camp, kosher, no bacon for 100s of miles.

William Shatner went there!

 

[chcr]

William Shatner's a latent homosexual?!?!?

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

William Shatner's a latent homosexual?!?!?

You sound surprised.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

what? I think you would have enjoyed the northern, jewish religious camp, kosher, no bacon for 100s of miles.

William Shatner went there!

American or Canadian bacon?

 

[paul_valaru]

Neither

well now they have turkey bacon

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

So, no bacon in other words.

 

[paul_valaru]

no, no bacon

no meat and cheese together either.

 

[2minkey]

at some point folks need to ditch the ideas of the past.

keep the ethics, but love the bacon cheesburger.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

No meat and no cheese, or no meat and cheese together?

 

[paul_valaru]

together, separate they are ok, together, you end up in Sheol

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

They send you to Korea for a fuggin cheeseburger? And y'all say Baptists are strict...

 

[paul_valaru]

that was inky-esque

 

[chcr]

no, no bacon

no meat and cheese together either.

Oy.

 

[Gonz]

*is eternally thankful he never attended summer camp with paul...*

me too

 

[Aunty Em]

*is happy she never attended summer camp... period!*

I can't think of anything worse than being in a hut full of smelly kids.

 

[chcr]

Hey! I took a bath just last week!