Posted: May 21, 2016 2:13 pm
ScholasticSpastic wrote:igorfrankensteen wrote: It is not biologically logical, to have sexual attraction specifically to beings who cannot bear children. Nor is it common. So it is not "natural," in the sense you mean.
While I understand what you are trying to say, homosexuality appears to be quite natural, which is to say that we can find a lot of examples of it in other species of animals, including entire species of only one sex that have sex with each other in order to stimulate parthenogenesis. But homosexuality is sexual attraction specifically to beings who cannot bear children.
I wasn't clear enough for your purposes. I didn't say what you think I said.
The thread starter used "natural" to mean two unsupported things, simultaneously. You are using "natural" in reference to "occurs occasionally in nature without intervention." And I agree with you, and I also suspect we will one day find a biological cause of pedophilia.
The OP, however, was using it to mean "normal and common to most or all members of a species," as well as implying the socio-political meaning "therefore should be considered okay." It is to those definitions of "natural" that I was referring, when I said "in the sense you mean."