[mrnoodle]

Originally Posted by twentycentshift

something may "feel unnatural" to someone, and not to someone else. who are we, as individulals, to decide what is ultimately an unnatural feeling?

Sexual attraction and arousal become complex things when you're talking about humans. We have feelings, emotions, and environmental factors that affect how we view sex. Not to mention, we're rare (if not unique) in the fact that we use sex in contexts other than reproduction. The "unnatural" feeling I'm referring to is the same one that a herd of elk might feel towards an albino elk. Kind of a "woah - this is something outside the ordinary". It doesn't lend itself to survival of the species, therefore our unconscious mind has an innate revulsion to it. We overcome that with logic and societal constructs that govern our treatment of each other, but the initial feeling is there nonetheless.

Originally Posted by jaguar

(I'm having a chat with noodle & MaggieL, this is a bizarro world indeed)

Thanks noodle for saving this thread from being a complete train wreck.

What a relief -- if we ever have a beer together, we're no longer automatically required to hit each other with the bottles