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Help me grow my perspective on openness and sexuality please (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I encountered someone saying, "I have no problems with a person's sexual orientation and choice, I have a problem with anyone being openly sexual or flaunting their sexuality in front of me regardless of their choice of orientation."

I am a card carrying atheist. I was raised in one of the worst fundamental christian extremist groups and now live in near isolation from abandoning it nearly 10 years ago. All sexuality was bottled in my life and surroundings. This is still my comfort zone. A part of me wants to hold on to a similar ethos as the person I mentioned above, but I feel like I'm not very confident it is the right inner philosophical balance either.

I'm partially disabled now, so this is almost completely hypothetical. I am honestly looking to grow in my understanding of personal space and inner morality as it relates to others. Someone enlighten me please. Where does this go, what does it mean to you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If, for years, newspapers have announced weddings (because people enjoy reading about locals getting married) then someone has a stick up their ass if people are participating in light PDA such as holding hands, hugging, or a quick kiss (or a long one for those really special moments that everyone can relate to).

Seeing two people in love with each other should bring people joy, we all don't have much in common other than enjoying the affection of another person (sometimes lol).

If someone can understand that people may want to have parades/rallies (or the reasons for having done so in the past) to celebrate their religious or any other personal freedom even as mundane as being able to smoke weed to more substantial freedoms such as sufferage, then they can deal with Pride month until we can all agree to stop being dicks.