//That is not the primary purpose of its design, it is incidental.//

OK, just who is responsible for this 'design'? Because I want to have a word with the engineer(s):

What the hell were you guys thinking when you left the testes on the outside? Too much work to tuck them away safely inside like the ovaries where they can't be inadvertently be struck by stray cricket balls and the like? Shoddy work is what I call it.

No wonder you've got all sorts design flaws like unintended pleasure from necessary reproductive activities with shoddy engineers like that. At least, I assume it's an unintended design flaw: you seem to be the only one who's been privy to the original blueprints. Maybe you can tell us how it's all meant to work. It still seems slightly distasteful to me that I expel bodily waste and reproduce via the same urethra. Is that the engineers taking a short-cut, or is that what is laid out in the blueprint?

//By the way my wife and I are still intimate at 75//

A mental image I did not need...

When there is zero probability that she will conceive, because there is zero probability that she is fertile. You dirty old pervert! You're not having sex to reproduce, you're having sex because it's fun. And yet you wag your finger at gays having sex for pleasure. Josephus, has it occurred to you that might be applying unfair double standards?

Toni Lavis,
Ignorance of the biological reason; the testes are on the outside of the body is because they produce fertile sperm at a lower temperature. If they were internal organs the sperm would be infertile. There is no shame in being informed about the real facts of the human body. Many prefer to deny their human function to have children till it is too late or because they in their youth chose same sex partner.

//Ignorance of the biological reason; the testes are on the outside of the body is because they produce fertile sperm at a lower temperature. If they were internal organs the sperm would be infertile//

This is exactly what I mean by shoddy engineering. How hard can it possibly be to design sperm that work at a slightly higher temperature? But it's easier to fudge the sperm, wack the testes on the outside and hope the boss won't notice, knock off early to the pub and hope that nobody catches on.

I reckon it was done by consultants. There is no way that the same engineers designed the liver and the male reproductive system. The liver is a work of art. The human male reproductive organs? Definitely consultants.

Foxy,
The only reason the State has to record marriage is to keep records on births and who is responsible as next of kin, mother, father of the child. Deaths are also recorded because it changes the statistics. Both of these records are to keep the status of the living citizens.

That two persons of the same gender want to live together as lovers does not change the population statistics one iota. For that reason two persons of the same gender is of no concern of the Government as their relationship is not equal to a husband and wife, and NEVER will be.

There is a much more sinister purpose by the homosexual activists which they believe they will change public attitudes by law, which will backfire when they start bringing discrimination cases to Court.
Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, but that is not enforced by legal action. The same shunning behaviour of homosexual acts by 14 to 24 yr old boys will still persist it will just fracture society even more if the homosexuals start legal action.

Well said Toni Lavis. One could go even further and say the male penis should have been made too big to fit in anywhere else other than the vagina either! Just saying...

Josephus, either one or both of the gay partners could be (and often are) the natural parents of one or more of the children living with them. Are these children not to be part of the state's 'statistics'?

You couldn't really give a damn whether the Gay people, or the straight ones, madly raced about and sued each other for discrimination or not.

Why not just be truthful and say you think homosexuality is an 'abomination' because a so-called disciple of Jesus said so in an ancient book?
Jesus or God never said that by the way, it was only said by another mere human...

What I learned about homosexual acts I learned from Biological science that it takes a man and a woman to produce a child. Do we now have children produced by same sex couples. The world of science needs to hear about this, otherwise it is a hoax.