is the acceptance of homosexuality in society creating a generation of confused young people?

Question

first off- please don't call me ignorant or prejudice, i'm coming here trying to understand something i do not. so explain please, but do not tell me im stupid im open-minded and trying to learn.
i say this because i myself am confused. i've seen girls who think they could be gay then call it bisexual and it turns out they just like guys.
i have no idea what my sexuality is but i'm just confused in alot of areas of my life and thats not my question.

so the question -

children tend to play with members of their own sex, sleepovers etc. are these kids going to think that liking their best friend is the same as being lesbians or a gay couple? if homosexuality becomes as commonplace as heterosexuality, could this lead to chaos and confusion in elementary and middle schools?
the rules of society and morality seem to be becoming so loose that they've left me confused. i ask myself if not 1 man 1 woman, why not multiple partners or why partners at all. and then what is a family?

again, don't say im ignorant, im asking this as a confused person who could simply be denying her homosexuality.
i'm looking for explanations so i can better understand something i don't.

Answer 1

I don't think it is.

Answer 2

I understand your confusion and I think the issue isn't necessarily confined to gay/lesbian issues. Sexuality of all kinds is now seen by children and I think seeing sexual behavior and acts at a very young age IS confusing. Kids copy what they see and try to identify with it. When they see sexual behavior they have no idea what is considered normal or appropriate for them. I don't know why society has become so voyeuristic but it's a fact. Nothing is ever left to the imagination and it is most definitely confusing to kids. Once kids have a better self image and can differentiate between others and themselves better, they begin to know what they want themselves. Most gay people I know say they knew since they were very young they liked the same sex. Some say they knew they were different but in years past kids were not engaging in sexual activity until they were considerably older and it wouldn't even occur to them to. Since that barrier has broken down it's left everyone confused. Again I don't think the issue is a gay/lesbian issue but a general loosening of boundaries and the availability of images of sexual behavior of all kinds on TV in movies, videos and magazines.

Answer 3

No offense, but you do seem to come off ignorant. However, I shall answer your questions anyway, simply because I believe you do not mean to come off as such.

A family is a group of people that supports and cares for one another. A family is there for you no matter what, through thick and thin. They don't have to be blood related, so long as there's a bond of love and acceptance.

I don't think kids are going to be confused. Kids don't really care about that stuff. I know I didn't. All I cared about what playing with my friends and coming home to a nice warm place at night. Kids don't know anything about love or crushes until they hit puberty, and even then they only know so much. yes, there will be experiments done by kids when they get to that curious stage, and maybe they'll have encounters with both the same and oposite sex, but it's natural. How can you tell what you like unless you try a little bit of both?

I think people care too much about society and what it 'thinks'. Homosexuals aren't doing anything wrong, they are simply loving someone. If society deems that loving someone is wrong, than perhaps society should be the one to change, not people.

Morality? If you want to focus on the loss of morality, focus on the wars. Focus on the rapes and homeless children and domestic abuse. Yes, the rules of morality do seem to be coming loose but homosexuality isn't to blame for it.

Love knows no gender, race or age. You can't choose who you love, just how you can't CHOOSE to be gay or straight.

Answer 4

No. Young people have always been confused about a number of things in their lives including sexuality.

When you're a teenager, your personality and character are still just forming into shape. Right? Wrong? What is it?

Sexuality is a part of the process of growing up because you reach puberty at or about the same time you start hitting your teenage years. For some its earlier.

But here's the point. You should wait until you're mature to decide things if you're confused. Maturity comes with some age, and so conventionally speaking, you want to try and be careful about how you treat your own sexuality. Peer pressure and other things tend to exaggerate what already irritates you.

The whole process of growing up seems humiliating on the personal level at a young age, but to be sure everyone around you in your age group is going to have doubts about themselves too. Just like you. Unfortunately, not everyone around you is going to be honest and admit that they have issues just like yours.

That's where everything seemingly flies against all conventional wisdom.

But to say that acceptance of homosexuality in society leads to confusion would be wrong.

Everyone on this planet has been confused about themselves at some point or another.

The important thing is for you to be yourself, and be honest with yourself. And also, not letting other people decide for you what you want to be.

Just take your time.

You'll grow up fast enough and sexuality will be the least of your problems.

In the meantime, if you choose to experiment, which I suggest you don't, remember that at the very least you want any sexual experience to be a good one. Not one that leaves you scarred with bad memories.

Too many of my friends from high school for their first time had bad sex with people they barely knew and usually under the influence of something. They always felt used and hurt.

Try and save yourself at least long enough so that you know when its right.

Answer 5

The acceptance of Homosexuality as a norm in society will do nothing but destroy society. The purpose of sex is procreation nothing else. A woman compliments a man and vice versa. Most Homosexuals live in private, and continue their search for sexual appetites regardless of the societal norms. Their has always been homosexuals and their probably always will, they are not discriminated against, and mostly they are accpted but legislation of private personal activities is an attempt to alter the beliefe systems of a culture nothing more. To purposely make a deviant sexual activity a norm in society, and to make it a protected class as if they are a person of color, discredits the whole civil rights movement in this Country.
Contray to the popularly pushed notion, their has never been a gay gene discovered.
I say live and let live if you don't bother me I won't bother you, but to make homosexuals on Par with natural procreation, and real marriage between a man and a woman, will reult in the Death of our society, and of course our country. If you cannot see this than you have no understanding of History and how blatant Hedonism destroyed past civilizations.

Answer 6

It's a learning process for society itself. It doesn't have any experience with dealing with homosexuality as a reality, since it's always gotten away with dodging the subject in the past and pretended that homosexuals didn't exist. We don't know yet how to explain the truth about sexuality to ourselves, let alone to kids. We're confused, ourselves. However, we do know that we are what we are, whatever we call ourselves, and that the confusion resolves itself as we mature and become more socialized. We're going to stumble around a lot for quite a while, and kids are going to call themselves that which they aren't, and think they are one thing when they're another. But it isn't fatal. Kids have always experimented with their own identities and with sexual feelings, but it all solidifies as it was intended to as they grow up. It will all work out eventually.

Answer 7

for some years in the previous gay relatives have been decriminalised 40 years in the past, greater and conscious societies many times "regarded any opposite direction" so a techniques as homosexuality grow to be in contact. The late Noel Coward defined himself as 95% gay and there have been dozens of different artists, some scientists, mathematicians, novelists and distinctive innovative people who have been gay. finding any opposite direction is tacit popularity. The vocal opposition to gay marriage is basically yet another symptom of provincial, a million/2 knowledgeable, blinkered societies that are beleaguered by utilising exchange. in the early 1960s their mom and father and grandparents have been marching under signs and indicators analyzing "Race blending is Communism" and their disc jockeys have been refusing to play documents by utilising "colored" musicians under the slogan of "No Race track". The society which will at last give way it that which needs to pass on that's historical prejudices to that's toddlers.

Answer 8

You are a smart woman. Homosexuality absolutely is confusing today's youths and causing chaos. And you are right, accepting it will lead to more twisted things in the future. Kids have enough problems growing up without experimenting with homosexuality. Stay heterosexual.

Answer 9

Young children play with children of the same gender because they are interested in similar toys and such. Girls like Barbies and boys like Legos. Girls like to play Family with a dollhouse, and boys like to smash the dollhouse. They do not play together because they are sexually attracted to one another. In fact, sexual feelings won't come for another six years or so.

There is nothing wrong with homosexuality, so if it becomes as common as heterosexuality, that is fine. Finally society is becoming more open-minded.
It has nothing to do with morality. People say it is wrong because it is a "sin" (but people are allowed to believe whatever religion/ideas they want) or because it is "disgusting" (but that is subjective and they are raised to think that).


Don't let yourself become confused. Attraction knows no gender. Love who you love, regardless of whether they are male or female or something else!

Answer 10

You seem to be mixing oranges, apples, and grapefruits here. Being tolerable and expressive about homosexuality does NOT equal confusion and chaos. It equals toleration and the exact UNDERSTANDING that you are missing. If noone speaks about it, it will still be around. It will be something going on amongst many many people, but no one willk now what they are feeling or why. THAT is why it needs to be as manistream as heterosexuality becaue its a fact of life. Homosexuality is here. It will always be here. It has always been here. Its just that todays soicety has become the first forerunners in standing up against all of the ignorant hate that has been used to force our mouths shut.

If homosexuality is explained PROPERLY, and becomes just as UN-taboo as straight relationships, a large portion of the chaos and confusion will be done away with. People are confused about that which they know nothing of. So if you know more of it....you wont be confused.

If you begin to question whether or not u should have one partner or many....that has no relation to the gay community. That means you are just confused about yourself and your own personal beliefs.

Answer 11

Kids get curious, they are going to experiment when they are at the age when they are curious about sex. They will either choose to experiment with boys or girls, whichever they are curious about. I don't think it will lead to chaos or confusion. It has been happening for hundreds of years already. I experimented with women as a kid, and I have a friend who "played doctor" with a neighbor girl when she was young. That's just who she was curious about.