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The bathouse behaviour is still present. I went to a korean spa in nyc with my kids and ran into a group of young men having an orgy in one of the spas which is not private. I was so embarassed, didnt know what to say to my kids, they saw a live scene. We never talked about it.

So, some of that stuborness in behaviour is something rampant in the gay community. They have for example, drug fueled parties and have continuous sex for days. The gay scene is doing itself a disservice by turning a blind eye on this and promoting hypersexuality at the expense of its health. I understand it’s found its freedom recently but they gotta get their shit together

I am not a Reagan appologist and am genetally tolerant of gay or anything that is part of out humanity. Im sure I’ll get downvoted here but I had to say this.

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I wish I had the option to downvote, because thinly veiled homophobia is really a disgusting thing to see on a supposedly enlightened site.

As if straight people don’t sleep around and have drug-fueled sex parties. And my god, swingers were and are a thing - as if gay men have a monopoly on getting laid.

The behavior is not rampant in the gay community; “they” do not have drug-fueled sex parties and fuck for days; they do not promote hyper sexuality at the expense of their health and “they” most certainly did not “just get their freedom”. If you think LGBT rights are all fought and won in the US, then you haven’t looked much into anti-discrimination laws.

You are not tolerant; and I take issue with you claiming to be tolerant. This is thinly veiled, disgusting homophobia, straight out of the moral majority’s playbook (seriously, it’s straight outta the 70s).

There is no rational conversation to be had here because what you said is wrong and disgusting and I hate seeing it on this site.

I am shocked reading some of the replies in this thread.

The average commentator here definitely tries to hide their socially regressive views behind some ideal of being "rational", but even then I truly thought that commentators here were above this.

> seriously, it’s straight outta the 70s

I felt like I was re-hearing a church youth pastor sermon from 1985 reading the parent comment.

If you grew up in the church I did, you could have the pleasure of hearing those comments as recently as ... checks calendar at least 2006! (I left after so who knows if they kept that line of rhetoric going).

It’s surprisingly common to hear this stuff today, still.

I wonder if this language and demonization was prevalent in, say, 1934. I can imagine it by the 60s, and certainly heard it in the 70s and 80s, but unsure if this was a trope much earlier (certainly there would have been other anti-gay tropes).

Dude, i dont have those views of gayness. How about you go to a spa with your kids and unawares you see a gay orgy. I didnt say a thing because of my kids and because i didnt want to to be the gay hater you’re talking about. But yeah, use that bigot label carelessly and it will mean nothing

It's the rest of the comment that's the problem (not the bathhouse bit).

did you reply to the wrong comment?

> supposedly enlightened site

Yea... about that. The tech articles are fine usually, but the social articles bring out some crazies. Same as anywhere else.

> They have for example, drug fueled parties and have continuous sex for days

Don't straight people do this too? Loaded question - of course they do. People take drugs and have sex. It's a human thing, not a 'gay' thing.

Thank you for being tolerant.

I extend the same tolerance to you even though one time I saw a homeless man having sex with a homeless woman on a public riverbank. I try very hard every day to not assume everyone is homeless. Kind of my way of keeping a chipper attitude for the sake of the kids.

Disgusting that heterosexual people tend to behave in such an indecent way.

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