According to the HETRACIL website, "HETRACIL is the most widely prescribed anti-effeminate medication in the United States, helping 16 million Americans who suffer from Behavioral Effeminism and Male Homosexuality Disorder." In other words, it's supposedly a drug to treat homosexuality. The look and feel of the site is pretty convincing, perfectly imitating the bland soothing nature of other pharmaceutical sites. And it's plausible that some drug company could try to devise such a product, given that up until the late 1960s the American Psychiatric Association actually did list homosexuality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders as a psychiatric disorder. However, as far as I know, no drug company is currently developing a treatment for homosexuality. In other words, HETRACIL is a hoax. This is revealed on homomojo.com in an interview with Benjamin, the creator of the HETRACIL site. The interview explains that "What he intended with these creations was to spur conversation on a “what if” scenario in which a cure for homosexuality (or at least feminine tendencies) becomes a reality. What would be the ramifications to society if sexual orientation could be manipulated?"
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Why isn't anybody working on an anti-stupidity medication?
It's one of those ironies of human nature that so much attention is lavished on attempts to "cure" something that's relatively uncommon and relatively harmless, when so little effort is going into a syndrome that is extremely common and a cause of many more demonstrable social ills: heterosexuality.
Until now, that is. Next week here in Texas, we're having a referendum on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban marriage. Proposition 2 was originally designed to ban same-sex marriage, but the duffers who wrote the legislation worded it in such a way that it actually says no marriage, and nothing like marriage, can ever be legally recognized in the State of Texas. Check it out:
"... This state, or a political subdivision of this state, may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage."
"But Gary," you say, "Simply outlawing heterosexual marriage will not get rid of heterosexuality."
I know, I know, but it's a start.
Frankly, it all rather depresses me that those who seem to be in favour of increasing people's freedoms are in fact deciding what freedoms people will be able to choose. Like Camille Paglia once commented, now that women's groups actively discourage women from choosing freely to become wives and/or mothers, thay have become the oppressors of women themselves.
Then again, I'm not allowed to have a relationship of this kind so what the heck do I care?
However, in regards to Prop. 2, the language that accidentally outlaws all marriage *is* a good thing, because it means the amendment is likely to get repealed much more quickly. If it passes. *fingers crossed that it won't!*
Not sure if the thing about Sweden is true. It sounds like the so-called "Ultra-Left" party proposed a ridiculous law banning marriage in order to draw attention to the plight of people who aren't allowed to marry. It's the same tactic we're using here in Texas against Prop. 2 - pointing out that it's not only same-sex families who are in trouble.
It was taken from me yeasr agao. Nobody seems to mind at all, and I am constantly told I shouldn't either.
I am often mistaken for being homosexual in this country, as I am well-dressed, always sober and intellectually above the average with papers to prove it. But sadly I am not.
There is no official explanation for my unmarriagable and even un-relationshipable state; I have many female friends who agree that I would make a great and wonderful life partner, but they also agree not to them. Rather like the old tale of "Belling The Cat" if you are old enough to recall that rather un-PC story. But like many things in life, it is inexplicable but true....I cannot be married. One young woman who tried to, actually died because of it.
I'm sure Babel Fish will assist you.
Firstly in the later stages of Joe Haldeman's book " The Forever War" the human race is encouraged to become homosexual as a population control measure, then as breeding is taken over by the UN to ensure racial harmony and equality, it continues to the point where heterosexuality is outlawed. I'm over simplifying the reasons behind it in the book, but at the end, returning soldiers ( Affected by relativity and distorted in time ) are given the opportunity by the homogenous cloned race now called Man to have themselves adjusted to whatever orientation they choose.
Another famous story is one short by Sir Arthur C Clarke, whom you may have heard of; It is a broadcast from a starship orbiting Earth, announcing a variant on the 1960s theme that humans are from elsewhere. The speaker explains that the vast human empire lost touch with Earth and now wishes to contact us again, but notes that we suffer from a disfigurement that used to be common among the empire's peoples; While it renders the victim ugly to look at, it is relatively harmless and is no longer a source of ridicule or scorn or predjudice, comment sthe speaker, and never again would it be a source of predjudice since treatments had been invented.
The speaker concludes " If any of you are still white, we can cure you."
This opens the door to poligamy, polimorphy and some relationships that not even homosexuals can stomach.
What is the difference between 2 men entering into a marrage contract and 3+ men, 3 men w/ 1 woman, 1 man w/ 2+ woman or even 2+ men w/ 2+ women.
There is probally as large a swinger community that enjoys and juggles multiple partners as there is a homosexual community.
Femanists supporting gay marrage is crazy! They will be opening the door for Taliban style treatment of women when men can legally collect a haram.
Of course, it is possible to see marriage as a monogamous union of consenting adults, but then that would cut all the melodrama of the slippery slope. Far better to let your imagination run riot with all kinds of marital permutations!
This immediately puts an enforced morality on this site. I suppose that it was vaguely amusing, at least.