Biology enables, culture forbids
Your biology is willing to tolerate a wide range of possibilities. However, it is culture that obliges people to realise some of these possibilities while forbidding others.
Biology enables women to have children, some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility.
Biology enables men and women to have gay/lesbian sex, some cultures forbid them realising this possibility.
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible, by definition, is also natural.
A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it doesn't need to be forbidden.
After all, no culture has bothered to forbid men to photosynthesise or women to run faster than the speed of light.
At the end of the day, what is determined to be "natural" and "unnatural" is determined by religion, and mostly Christianity.
Discuss...
Biology enables women to have children, some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility.
Biology enables men and women to have gay/lesbian sex, some cultures forbid them realising this possibility.
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible, by definition, is also natural.
A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it doesn't need to be forbidden.
After all, no culture has bothered to forbid men to photosynthesise or women to run faster than the speed of light.
At the end of the day, what is determined to be "natural" and "unnatural" is determined by religion, and mostly Christianity.
Discuss...
