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	<title>Comments on: Since when is it &quot;offensive&quot; to talk about sex and homosexuality?</title>
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		<title>By: mergatroidal</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/06/since-when-is-it-offensive-to-talk-about-sex-and-homosexuality/#comment-17237</link>
		<dc:creator>mergatroidal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not so offensive to talk intimately about sex and homosexuality.Talk about the mechanics, the nuts &amp; bolts of what makes someone&#039;s religion tick and one is called an Islamphobe and racist.

Best simply to write nice-nice, sweet things about another&#039;s religious beliefs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not so offensive to talk intimately about sex and homosexuality.Talk about the mechanics, the nuts &amp; bolts of what makes someone&#8217;s religion tick and one is called an Islamphobe and racist.</p>
<p>Best simply to write nice-nice, sweet things about another&#8217;s religious beliefs.</p>
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		<title>By: eric/canada</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/06/since-when-is-it-offensive-to-talk-about-sex-and-homosexuality/#comment-17236</link>
		<dc:creator>eric/canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe that people are linking this site to promoting porn.  Somebody needs a remedial lesson in searching the Web. I mean, if I want to look at porn, I just have to go to Google Images, unfilter the results, and type in just about any damn word at all.
As for the whole gay thing, we&#039;ve had the complete rights package here for about 2 decades now, and the latest generation still hovers around the 2% mark for identifying themselves as gay.  Our society didn&#039;t collapse (as far as I can tell, I don&#039;t pay that much attention to what&#039;s going on downtown).
Oh well, mabye the gays, the Jews, the Islamic radicals, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Gangstas etc., simply haven&#039;t been able to schedule a convention to overthrow us &quot;normal&quot; people</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe that people are linking this site to promoting porn.  Somebody needs a remedial lesson in searching the Web. I mean, if I want to look at porn, I just have to go to Google Images, unfilter the results, and type in just about any damn word at all.<br />
As for the whole gay thing, we&#8217;ve had the complete rights package here for about 2 decades now, and the latest generation still hovers around the 2% mark for identifying themselves as gay.  Our society didn&#8217;t collapse (as far as I can tell, I don&#8217;t pay that much attention to what&#8217;s going on downtown).<br />
Oh well, mabye the gays, the Jews, the Islamic radicals, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Gangstas etc., simply haven&#8217;t been able to schedule a convention to overthrow us &#8220;normal&#8221; people</p>
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		<title>By: Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry about the double message, I thought I lost it, and here it&#039;s back. What can I say? It&#039;s all part of the ride.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry about the double message, I thought I lost it, and here it&#8217;s back. What can I say? It&#8217;s all part of the ride.</p>
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		<title>By: Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/06/since-when-is-it-offensive-to-talk-about-sex-and-homosexuality/#comment-17234</link>
		<dc:creator>Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Esra&#039;a, I don&#039;t really understand the dynamics of hate. Why are we so quick to hate someone of this or that minority?

My guess is, although it may sound a bit simplistic, is that it makes us feel good about ourselves to hate someone else.

It&#039;s not easy to look at a mirror and see all our faults. It&#039;s quite a bit easier to take the mirror and break it over someone else&#039;s head. It&#039;s easier to pretend that all our problems are not our own fault, but the fault of others instead, be they gays, or Jews, or blacks, or Latinos, or what have you.

When we look outwardly for solutions to our problems, it&#039;s easy to find plenty of people to hate. When we look inwardly for solutions to our problems, then we realize that we all have problems, and that we share much more in common than divides us.

It is time to look at the mirror, instead of at the window. As someone once told me, when you point your finger at someone else, three fingers are still pointing at you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Esra&#8217;a, I don&#8217;t really understand the dynamics of hate. Why are we so quick to hate someone of this or that minority?</p>
<p>My guess is, although it may sound a bit simplistic, is that it makes us feel good about ourselves to hate someone else.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not easy to look at a mirror and see all our faults. It&#8217;s quite a bit easier to take the mirror and break it over someone else&#8217;s head. It&#8217;s easier to pretend that all our problems are not our own fault, but the fault of others instead, be they gays, or Jews, or blacks, or Latinos, or what have you.</p>
<p>When we look outwardly for solutions to our problems, it&#8217;s easy to find plenty of people to hate. When we look inwardly for solutions to our problems, then we realize that we all have problems, and that we share much more in common than divides us.</p>
<p>It is time to look at the mirror, instead of at the window. As someone once told me, when you point your finger at someone else, three fingers are still pointing at you.</p>
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		<title>By: Battal Agha</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/06/since-when-is-it-offensive-to-talk-about-sex-and-homosexuality/#comment-17233</link>
		<dc:creator>Battal Agha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Arab World is still in the Middle Ages - Mollahs and Imams are ruling and the people are &quot;submitting&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Arab World is still in the Middle Ages &#8211; Mollahs and Imams are ruling and the people are &#8220;submitting&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Sex, Sex, Sex, and More Sex: The &#8220;Forbidden&#8221;, &#8220;Offensive&#8221; Word - Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sex, Sex, Sex, and More Sex: The &#8220;Forbidden&#8221;, &#8220;Offensive&#8221; Word - Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] &#8220;Offensive&#8221; Word Author: Drima (Sudan) - February 7, 2008  So Esra&#8217;a told a story and asked &#8220;since when is it “offensive” to talk about sex and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] &#8220;Offensive&#8221; Word Author: Drima (Sudan) &#8211; February 7, 2008  So Esra&#8217;a told a story and asked &#8220;since when is it “offensive” to talk about sex and [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Esra'a</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/06/since-when-is-it-offensive-to-talk-about-sex-and-homosexuality/#comment-17231</link>
		<dc:creator>Esra'a</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;

The ones complaining about your articles concerning sex are most probably the ones who also support marrying of little girls to dozens of years older husbands &lt;/blockquote&gt;
You don&#039;t see many people condemning children being forced into this kind of abusive marriage, but say &quot;I&#039;m gay&quot; in public and you&#039;ll be flogged and shunned by society. Homosexuals are damned even though they&#039;re completely harmless. Why do so many people write about and discriminate against homosexuals, but perverted men who run after pre-teens while wooing the child&#039;s parents with money is fine? How come many people consider homosexuality to be disgusting, while raping minors goes unnoticed, even though it&#039;s much more prevalent?

Why are we being criticized for talking about this? It&#039;s absurd that people &lt;em&gt;aren&#039;t.&lt;/em&gt; It&#039;s time for us to break the silence. You can censor yourself if you choose to, but don&#039;t try and censor the rest of us. No one has the right to do that.

It&#039;s bad enough regional governments keep an eye out on the kind of stuff we do, now we got our own families and friends trying to shut us up.

I&#039;m sorry to the friends whom I know are reading this, but I hope you&#039;re as hurt and offended as I was at your shallow complaints.</description>
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<p>The ones complaining about your articles concerning sex are most probably the ones who also support marrying of little girls to dozens of years older husbands </p></blockquote>
<p>You don&#8217;t see many people condemning children being forced into this kind of abusive marriage, but say &#8220;I&#8217;m gay&#8221; in public and you&#8217;ll be flogged and shunned by society. Homosexuals are damned even though they&#8217;re completely harmless. Why do so many people write about and discriminate against homosexuals, but perverted men who run after pre-teens while wooing the child&#8217;s parents with money is fine? How come many people consider homosexuality to be disgusting, while raping minors goes unnoticed, even though it&#8217;s much more prevalent?</p>
<p>Why are we being criticized for talking about this? It&#8217;s absurd that people <em>aren&#8217;t.</em> It&#8217;s time for us to break the silence. You can censor yourself if you choose to, but don&#8217;t try and censor the rest of us. No one has the right to do that.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s bad enough regional governments keep an eye out on the kind of stuff we do, now we got our own families and friends trying to shut us up.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry to the friends whom I know are reading this, but I hope you&#8217;re as hurt and offended as I was at your shallow complaints.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon Columbus</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/06/since-when-is-it-offensive-to-talk-about-sex-and-homosexuality/#comment-17230</link>
		<dc:creator>Simon Columbus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The ones complaining about your articles concerning sex are most probably the ones who also support marrying of little girls to dozens of years older husbands - it&#039;s all about their moral authority.

(Damning sex is something even very liberal western societies or familiar with. On another level, sure, but conservatives always seem to concentrate on that topic. You will rather get a weapon than a porn video - wonder, what&#039;s more dangerous...)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ones complaining about your articles concerning sex are most probably the ones who also support marrying of little girls to dozens of years older husbands &#8211; it&#8217;s all about their moral authority.</p>
<p>(Damning sex is something even very liberal western societies or familiar with. On another level, sure, but conservatives always seem to concentrate on that topic. You will rather get a weapon than a porn video &#8211; wonder, what&#8217;s more dangerous&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>By: Esra'a</title>
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		<dc:creator>Esra'a</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I’m so tired of that.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Seriously. And it&#039;s not even being prudish, it&#039;s just being childish and immature. Furthermore, I really think that the people most offended by &quot;sex&quot; are usually the ones who are most sex-crazed, hence porn being amongst our top searches.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I’m so tired of that.</p></blockquote>
<p>Seriously. And it&#8217;s not even being prudish, it&#8217;s just being childish and immature. Furthermore, I really think that the people most offended by &#8220;sex&#8221; are usually the ones who are most sex-crazed, hence porn being amongst our top searches.</p>
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		<title>By: Eliesheva (Israel/USA)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eliesheva (Israel/USA)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amen! Hallelujah.
I&#039;m so tired of that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amen! Hallelujah.<br />
I&#8217;m so tired of that.</p>
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