Originally Posted by
Ele
I'm sure several people would like to know why you consider homosexuality a fetish, as opposed to a sexual identity. Can you explain your argument?
Being attracted to men or women is not functionally different from being attracted to leather or rubber. I believe there's even a debate over which paraphilia should be regarded as disorders ("homosexuality is a disease" - ring any bells?).
On a personal level sexual identity is just a collection of sexual preferences.That said, the concept of grouping people based on sexual preference is questionable at best as attraction is a little more nuanced than 'same gender therefore I want to have sex' (two 'homosexuals' of the same gender won't necessarily be attracted to the same person).
I'm not certain that homosexuality is not in any way different from any other fetish. The only reason that some people treat it differently is because some sects of some religions don't like it. The same situation exists with some fetishes (beastiality, exhibitionism, hebephilia, etc) but not with others (S&M, scat, asphyxiophilia, etc), the divide of morality runs along the line of religion.