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Re: hindu homosexuality
> One thing that I think you are leaving out here (not engaging in the
> discussion of the merits or lack thereof for sex other than for
> procreation) is the matter of love. Within a homosexual relationship there
> is as much possibility for true love as there is in a heterosexual
> relationship. Please do not reduce homosexuality to simply sexual acts;
> there is much more going on than simply sex for pleasure in any
> relationship.
>
There is no real possibility of love in the material world, because real
love should be both selfless and eternal, whereas so-called love, whether
it is in a homosexual or heterosexual relationship, is neither of these.
So called love in the material world is better known as lust because it
is the desire for one's own sense gratification... the desire to exploit
someone else. And no relationship can be eternal in the material world
because everyone has to die at some point.
Therefore, the only real love is love of God, something which I hope to
achieve someday.
This is not to say that people should not get married. The sex desire is
difficult to control, and that is why it is acceptable in sastra to
harness it for the procreative function. In this way, no karmic reaction
will result, so long as the child is brought up as a devotee.
