The Fifth Column
So what follows are five questions. At the end I’ll link to the post that birthed them but for now I’m gonna answer them. I am not gonna parse each word and phrase just answer ‘em off the top of my head. To put this in perspective, I am a heterosexual male. Okay, now onto the five questions:
Question One
A person who has had only heterosexual experiences is feeling some homosexual attraction. Should he or she experiment with homosexual relations to see if he or she finds them more rewarding, or at least a valuable facet of his or her future sex life (assuming this wouldn’t constitute infidelity, that it’s done with the proper protection against disease, that it’s done with the right person, and so on)?… Hmmmm, sure.
Question Two
Should gay rights groups try to change society so that such experimentation is less stigmatized?… Not sure I’d word it quite this way but yeah nothing wrong with a little experimentation. Certainly shouldn’t be stigmatized for it.
Question Three
Should gay and lesbian friends of this person urge the person (of course, sensitively and without browbeating) to experiment, and to see if — given that he or she feels at least some same-sex attraction — he or she might indeed find same-sex relationships more rewarding?… Again, not sure if I’d word it quite this way, I wouldn’t be wearing pom-poms, but if they thought it might be a rich, rewarding experience I’d say why not.
Question Four
If this were a friend of yours to whom you were attracted, you knew that he or she felt at least some same-sex attraction, and you weren’t worried about the emotional risk to yourself, would you consider having you be the person with whom the friend experiments? (Again, assume that neither of you is otherwise committed, the approach would be suitably sensitive, and so on; naturally, even sexual behavior that’s perfectly proper in the abstract can be made wrong if done under the wrong circumstances.)… Well, with all the caveats included, sure. Of course, there’s always emotional risk involved in laying the romantic cards on the table, but yeah I might.
Question Five
Do you think that older teenagers (say, 16 and above) should have out-of-the-closet gay, lesbian, and bisexual role models so that those of the teenagers who feel some same-sex attraction would feel more open to experimenting to see if same-sex relationships will be more rewarding to them than opposite-sex relationships? (I’m not asking about sexual experimentation with the role models, but rather about the role models’ presence making the teenagers more comfortable with their same-sex attractions.)… Do I think it’s a good thing to have friends/role models who share similar sexual, cultural, religious and/or socio-economic backgrounds as me, yeah I do. Probably a good idea to have friends who have differing sexual, cultural, religious and/or socio-economic backgrounds as well.
Conclusions
So there you go, not really delving into the belly of the questions, taken at face value, those would be my answers. Now apparently my affirmative answers make me something of a Fifth Column in the queers quest to convert the masses to one nation under homo erotica. I’m a Alger Priss in other words.
If you want to read the source of these questions then head on over to the The Volokh Conspiracy. If you don’t then here’s his closing paragraph;
Nonetheless, if I’m right, then I don’t think we should deny that the gay and lesbian movement does aim in part at converting people who have a wholly or partly bisexual orientation from a purely heterosexual behavior pattern to one that involves at least some (initially experimental) homosexual behavior.
I’m guessing he won’t write a post in the near future detailing religious and conservative groups aims at converting people to the heterosexual lifestyle, but I could be wrong.
Update: I forgot to throw in a via link, my bad. So here’s the fella the dropped me into vast limp wrist conspiracy threatening my bisexual friends: Eschaton
Further Reading
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