Dear NNS,

I agree with Steele. There are issues that also
need to be addressed concerning family, domestic,
sexual violence in Australia. The statistics are
staggering. The following link explains:

http://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/domestic-violence/family-domestic-sexual-violence-in-australia-2018/contents/summary

Now that Foxy has left this topic, I feel safe to speak without the pontificating and sanctimonious regurgitation of information we already know about, yet choose to set it aside in the interest of what the real world is doing, saying and thinking, and not what little miss muffin seems to think it is.
I thought one of OLO's rules was not to repeat things ad-nauseam which is exactly what she has been doing for as long as I can remember.
Anyway, no matter how you see it, any form of sex other than that between a man and a woman, is not to be treated as the norm, just because there are certain creations that engage in it.
I wonder if anyone actually knows what the word "normal" means?
Not the normal that is conveniently twisted and used to justify something ab-normal.
Why some people keep flapping on about people who are born with ABNORMALITIES as is classified by the respective medical journals, are considered normal is beyond belief, and in doing so have themselves announced that they are also abnormal.
Do I need to mention the albino's, the dwarf's etc, etc, all over again?
No my name is not X, nor am I related to X.
So if we are to be honest with each other, the people who fall into this category are different.
They may not be different from others afflicted with the same disorder, but never-the-less, still not normal.
So let's not beat around the bush, just because we have some people with the emotions and intellect of a pre-pubescent, does not mean we don't have a brain of our own, which in this case, far outperforms the one's in question.

Darn it,

just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water, along comes the two metre white female, shark, even though she said she was moving on to cleaner waters.
Can't help herself, has to get the last word.

Oh, SR you want us to accept 10 year old research?
Is that all you could find to make your point?
Was all the other data not going to help you make your point and was in fact the opposite?
It's OK, we understand.
As soon as I come across something to help bolster your case I'll let you know, till then, keep looking.

Dear Foxy,

They are indeed staggering.

This is one that I found particularly confronting;

"Intimate partner violence causes more illness, disability and deaths than any other risk factor for women aged 25–44"

Dear Steele,

I remember the days when I worked for the
Department of Human Services in the City.
The Child Protection Services were just
down the hall. They were under-staffed,
poorly resourced, and their case-loads
were horrific. So many children fall through
the cracks. Their reports were piled up
in the hallway - anybody could read them.

Cases of child abuse - involving
acts like burning children with cigarettes,
locking them up in closets, tying them up for
hours or days, or breaking their bones -
was alarmingly common and probably causes
so many of the runaways that happen each year.

Tweedledum & Tweedledee,

I'm not sure how and why this thread has moved so far away from its original intent, from whether or not homosexuality has any genetic component to issues of domestic violence. I don't know what one has to do with the other. Can we get BTT ?

Joe