HIS69-405 New Boy In Town
New Boy In Town
HIS69
HIS69-405
Gene Charnot
$2.95
Foreword
Sexuality is an intricate, complicated and diverse phenomena; and a society that insists on pegholing such phenomena into neat, restrictive categories is headed for trouble.
Our society today has precisely this problem, despite the pioneering efforts of such great men as Dr. Alfred Kinsey who in the 50’s scientifically proved that there is considerable sexual diversities among both homosexually oriented persons and heterosexually oriented persons. He proposed a scale of 1 to 6 and theorized that, the majority of Americans fall somewhere near the middle.
The tragedy of Kinsey’s subsequent persecution and destruction shows that our society is not ready for such sensible reasoning and is in fact sexually neurotic to the point of being paranoid.
Gore Vidal, one of the most noted American literary figures, suggests that the terms homosexual and heterosexual be used only as adjectives, and never as nouns. This seems to me to be a quite reasonable suggestion. Yet, newspapers, preachers, novelists and gay liberationists still persist in referring to people as being “gay” or “straight”.
The result is sexual insecurity and fear of one’s own sexual feelings. And this directly leads to such horrible behavior as queerbashings, suicides, rapes, and undoubtedly to anti-homosexual crusades.
On the individual level, the firm labeling of sexual behavior and insistence that individuals “fit” into one of these labels results in selflimitations that very few of us manage to break out of. This limitation goes past just calling ourselves “gay” or “straight” and actually focuses on specific sexual acts. Many straight women complain because their men refuse to be tender or to engage in oral sex even while expecting the women to do so to them. Many gay men are incapable of expressing feeling in sex or of performing anything except their “favorite” sex act.
This book is about two such people, both firmly established in their roles. One, not even admitting his gay sexuality even while intimately involved with another man.
But these two people, through love, are beginning to discover themselves and to learn about the expansive scope of human feelings and behavior. By the end of this book, this process is only beginning. It is not over-night. It is long, slow, and many times difficult.
But look at it this way: Some people never grow up. Look at Anita Bryant…
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