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  • Not all of them.
  • Sex should be secondary in any relationship, be it homosexual or heterosexual. The primary consideration should be the emotional bond that links two people.
  • People don't usually classify a relationship as "homosexual" or "heterosexual" unless it is a sexual relationship. Most everybody has family, friends, coworkers, etc. of both sexes which are not classified as homosexual or heterosexual relationships because they are not sexual relationships. Are "all heterosexual relationships" about sex? If you mean "a relationship between a male and a female" of course not. Most have no sexual interaction at all. "Homosexual relationship" implies sexual activity. Since people often have life-long, loving relationships with others without any sexual interaction (best friend, sister, etc.), what separates a "homosexual relationship" from other relationships is sexual behavior. Having said that, however, there are certainly some heterosexual relationships that are only about sex, and I think that is unfortunate. Some, but not most.
  • I would say it was a fair assumption to make about the majority of Hetero relationships. Especially considering that a large majority of men who cheat on their wives or partners do it for sexual reasons. Either they don't get as much as they want, their wife or partner is no longer sexually desireable to them any longer for various stupid reasons or their wife/ partner won't degrade themselves and do certain things in bed that the misteress is willing to do.
  • I think sex is important to people of any sexual orientation (generally speaking). It's when it's flaunted publicly that it gets labelled as such.
  • While I agree with the basic point you're making (that homosexual relationships aren't exclusively sexual), and I am a fairly outspoken advocate of LGBT rights, I still don't like your question -- it's divisive and polarizing. If you want to promote tolerance, you have to learn to tolerate. Toleration starts with recognizing the fundamental connection between yourself and those you mistrust (in this case, the Christian Right). By "calling them out" like this, and presuming dishonorable motives in the setup for your question, you're actually undermining the very goal you seem to want to achieve. This is always a fine line to walk: there's no reliable set of fixed rules, but a good technique -- if you can't get your head around the abstraction -- is to imagine that your best friend is a member of the opposition, and is reading your post. Is that how you would phrase it then?
  • Honestly, there are a good number of them that are based solely on sex. The same can be said about homosexual relationships. Does that mean that it's okay or acceptable? Not in either case.
  • Read Romans 26-27..men shall not lay with men and women shall not lay with women.God created man to lay with woman and one woman only...
  • This answer is null and void.
  • It would be fair to say that... I think what bothers me, is the "deviant" stereotype gays get.
  • all relationships are about love, if it's not love it's not a relationship
  • Let me take it one step further. I have no need or desire to know ANYTHING about anyone's sexual orientation, behaviors, or inclinations unless it is somehow my responsibility to know. I am not suggesting that people hide in a closet, but I was raised in a generation where people kept their personal business personal. I really do not agree with either side of the scenario you have set up here and I agree with Stableboy that polarizing groups serves no useful purpose. I gave you points for your participation and willingness to ask. Thanks, but the question really doesn't have much meaning to me.
  • Relationships are all about give & take. In a friendship you give support to recieve support, in a romantic relationship you love to be loved. Having sex, especially with some one you love, is one of many ways to show your love. What I don't understand is why sex is still demonized in public. 2000 years later, now that we have birth control and a good amount (comparitively) of protection against STD's and STI's, why is sex still so "bad"? It IS something humans NEED, so what's so bad about it?
  • I don't think ANY relationship is about sex. Sex is something you do, it's a release of tension, it's fun. A relationship is about being committed and loving and sharing your life. You have relationships with your friends as well as your significant other. Nobody considers friendships about sex, so why should any other relationship, with the same sex or opposite, be about sex?
  • You can't fight intolerance by being intolerant. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/435457
  • This question is not intolerant. It is realistic. I have heard MANY MANY MANY antigay people speak about "the gay lifestyle." The gay lifestyle? The gay lifestyle: bathhouses, tearooms, public restrooms. Is that the gay lifestyle? Since when? I have had people tell me, "You're in danger of contracting HIV!!!" Why? Because I'm not attracted to women? Because straight people can't contract HIV?? What... what was that... uh... Oh, they can! How does my attraction to men mean that I will contract HIV? You have no idea how ignorant people are! I read on a Christian anti-gay website that homosexuals do not form lasting relationships; and the only way a gay man can enter into a loving committed relationship is by getting a woman, because gay men just have sex, without commitment. I kid you not. *** However, I don't like this question because it panders to the stupidity of the ignorant. Those who are so completely ignorant will remain so, because they do not want to see; it takes too much energy for them. Fact of life. These bottom of the scale MORONS do not deserve any energy from you. Seriously, dude: Life is too short. Get your man, love him, and derive as much happiness from life as you can; people like these will only waste your time and emotional energy by annoying you. Life is too short.
  • It's about love, and being with someone you truely, and deeply care about. I find(via the actions of my friends, and at one time myself) that hetero relationships tend to be more about sex
  • No. Love and sex can be two different things.
  • I know it is not! I lived in one for 20 years until his death and have been single ever since. Love and sex are far from the same entity.
  • Hmm. From what I have seen the ratio of sex:love is the same on both sides of the coin.

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