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To be or not to be gay or who/what is Gay
Topic was triggered by some discussion on a story thread, but here i am using " Gay' in different perspective.
The word gay arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most likely deriving ultimately from a Germanic source.
In English, the word's primary meaning was "joyful", "carefree", "bright and showy", and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature. For example, the optimistic 1890s are still often referred to as the Gay Nineties. The title of the 1938 French ballet Gaîté Parisienne ("Parisian Gaiety"), which became the 1941 Warner Brothers movie, The Gay Parisian,[10] also illustrates this connotation..
By the late 17th century, it had acquired the specific meaning of "addicted to pleasures and dissipations", an extension of its primary meaning of "carefree" implying "uninhibited by moral constraints". A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, and a gay house a brothel.
An example is a letter read to a London court in 1885 during the prosecution of brothel madam and procuress Mary Jeffries that had been written by a girl while slaved to a French brothel:
Now let's look at the law, section 377 which has now been partly decriminalized, stands like this,
Section 377 in The Indian Penal Code
377. Unnatural offences.—Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with 1[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.—Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section.
It uses two words, one against the order of nature and second derived from there Unnatural offences, ..., what is order of nature - coitus for procreation.
so masturbation, lesbian sex and anal sex with a female is also 'unnatural.'
There is another issue, Gay and Bi- a person who indulges with sex of both sex is called Bi- and not gay or lesbo. Is Gay a social, psychological behavior or only a sexual proclivity?
If it violates any rule, i am ready to close it asap.
Topic was triggered by some discussion on a story thread, but here i am using " Gay' in different perspective.
The word gay arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most likely deriving ultimately from a Germanic source.
In English, the word's primary meaning was "joyful", "carefree", "bright and showy", and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature. For example, the optimistic 1890s are still often referred to as the Gay Nineties. The title of the 1938 French ballet Gaîté Parisienne ("Parisian Gaiety"), which became the 1941 Warner Brothers movie, The Gay Parisian,[10] also illustrates this connotation..
By the late 17th century, it had acquired the specific meaning of "addicted to pleasures and dissipations", an extension of its primary meaning of "carefree" implying "uninhibited by moral constraints". A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, and a gay house a brothel.
An example is a letter read to a London court in 1885 during the prosecution of brothel madam and procuress Mary Jeffries that had been written by a girl while slaved to a French brothel:
Now let's look at the law, section 377 which has now been partly decriminalized, stands like this,
Section 377 in The Indian Penal Code
377. Unnatural offences.—Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with 1[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.—Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section.
It uses two words, one against the order of nature and second derived from there Unnatural offences, ..., what is order of nature - coitus for procreation.
so masturbation, lesbian sex and anal sex with a female is also 'unnatural.'
There is another issue, Gay and Bi- a person who indulges with sex of both sex is called Bi- and not gay or lesbo. Is Gay a social, psychological behavior or only a sexual proclivity?
If it violates any rule, i am ready to close it asap.
