Re: New Arvorec words

From: "jesse stephen bangs" <jaspax@...>
> >     This was fascinating to me. Excellent background.
> > I might suggest one thing, though, for your
> > consideration. No matter how anti-gay a culture is,
> > there are usually some areas where it persists. Even
> > Islamic culture, for example, has a wealth of gay
> > poetry from the middle ages. You might think of
> > alternate relationships, or "black market"
> > relationships, somewhere in your culture.
>
> This is true, and doubtlessly there were homosexuals among the Yivríndi,
> and probably in about the same proportions.  (BTW, does anyone know if the
> percentages of homosexuals is different in tolerant and non-tolerant
> cultures?)
I'm not sure what that would mean.

I think it might depend on whether "homosexuality" refers to a dedicated
one-way 'orientation' or merely to 'activity' (which would include
bisexuality, strong or weak).

I'd assume the number of people with the 'orientation' would probably be
constant everywhere, but the amount of 'activity' would depend on the
tolerance level of the society.  *Here* being bisexual is synonymous with
being "a homosexual".[1]  I wonder what (if anything) that says about
tolerance levels.


    *Muke!

[1] I have seen conversations where mentioning someone is bi produced
vehement denials along the lines of "but he's got a girlfriend!"  A couple
of days ago, actually.