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nandini

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Posted: 15 years ago

I know there have been topics and discussions galore on this issue, so forgive me for the recycle. I attended a seminar in college yesterday on Same Sex Love, and was handed this document before entering the hall. The point it makes is striking as it is, but what i found more striking was the manner in which it is made. I felt like i just had to share it over here. It is a questionnaire dated 1972, put together by a scholar by the name of Martin Rochlin.

Mods can close this topic if it is irrelevant or repetitive, but i just thought this is too interesting to be ignored and forgotten in the recesses of my college-bag.

THE HETEROSEXUAL QUESTIONNAIRE

This questionnaire is for self-avowed Heterosexuals only. If you are not openly heterosexual, pass it on to a friend who is. Pl try to answer the questions as candidly as possible. Your responses will be held in strict confidence and your anonymity fully protected.

1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?

2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?

3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?

4. Could it be that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?

5. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react?

6. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be what you are and keep it quiet?

7. Would you want your children to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they'd have to face?

8. Heterosexuals are notorious for assigning themselves and one another rigid, stereotyped sex roles. Why must you cling to such unhealthy role-playing?

9. How can you hope to excercise your God-given homosexual potential if you limit yourself to exclusive, compulsive heterosexuality?

10. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. After all, you never deliberately chose to be a heterosexual, did you? Have you considered aversion therapy or Heterosexuals Anonymous?

What I love about this questionnaire is that it makes a point I have been trying to make in every debate I have ever entered on the subject, over here, or with friends, or in general. What it does is that it destabilises the idea of sexual orientation being seen in a bi-polar form, that makes you either a Heterosexual or a Homosexual. Bisexuality and Transexuality, which lie somewhere in between, also presuppose the existence of the two poles, do they not, signifying the middle path between being Gay and being Straight, to put it in its most crude form.

Would love to know what your responses are to this. If this topic isn't closed, of course.

Cheers! 😊

P.S. Love the last question. Hits the hardest, and is absolutely hilarious.

Edited by nandinidev - 15 years ago

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sudesh kumar

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Posted: 15 years ago

Originally posted by: nandinidev
I know there have been topics and discussions galore on this issue, so forgive me for the recycle. I attended a seminar in college yesterday on Same Sex Love, and was handed this document before entering the hall. The point it makes is striking as it is, but what i found more striking was the manner in which it is made. I felt like i just had to share it over here. It is a questionnaire dated 1972, put together by a scholar by the name of Martin Rochlin.

Mods can close this topic if it is irrelevant or repetitive, but i just thought this is too interesting to be ignored and forgotten in the recesses of my college-bag.

THE HETEROSEXUAL QUESTIONNAIRE

This questionnaire is for self-avowed Heterosexuals only. If you are not openly heterosexual, pass it on to a friend who is. Pl try to answer the questions as candidly as possible. Your responses will be held in strict confidence and your anonymity fully protected.on a forum.. but i care a damn for gays since there is no basis for being the way they are..... so dont really care...

1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? natural instincts..

2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual? at 5 when examining otjher girls..

3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of? is there a reason...!!?

4. Could it be that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?none... are u talking about fears about covering your a** around guys!!!???? no no fear whatsoever....

5. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react? impressed...

6. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be what you are and keep it quiet? I dont flaunt.. u are the one asking questions!!!?😆

7. Would you want your children to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they'd have to face?... there is only heterosexuals, hermaprhodites and compulsive pervs... i dont want to be latter....two

8. Heterosexuals are notorious for assigning themselves and one another rigid, stereotyped sex roles. Why must you cling to such unhealthy role-playing? its called organization... have you heard that word...:)

9. How can you hope to excercise your God-given homosexual potential if you limit yourself to exclusive, compulsive heterosexuality? God never gave that potential... homosexuals are the pervs moving around... against natural laws...

10. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. After all, you never deliberately chose to be a heterosexual, did you? Have you considered aversion therapy or Heterosexuals Anonymous?i would rather have a date with a nympho.....😆

What I love about this questionnaire is that it makes a point I have been trying to make in every debate I have ever entered on the subject, over here, or with friends, or in general. What it does is that it destabilises the idea of sexual orientation being seen in a bi-polar form, that makes you either a Heterosexual or a Homosexual. Bisexuality and Transexuality, which lie somewhere in between, also presuppose the existence of the two poles, do they not, signifying the middle path between being Gay and being Straight, to put it in its most crude form.

Would love to know what your responses are to this. If this topic isn't closed, of course.

Cheers! 😊

P.S. Love the last question. Hits the hardest, and is absolutely hilarious.

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nandini

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Posted: 15 years ago

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

This questionnaire is meant to drive a point home, and by answering it the way you did, you actually confirmed what it is attempting to convey. With each and every answer. Each question is an inversion of the questions asked to Gay people, simply substituting 'Homosexual' with 'Heterosexual'. The questions you had no reasonable answer to, because you found the question ridiculous in itself, are just as ridiculous when asked to homosexuals in their context, eg. the ones in Purple. And some questions would elicit the exact same response from them, so if your respone is valid, theirs is equally so, eg the ones in Green.

In fact, most of these questions are not meant to be answered, simple because they have no reasonable answers, which i'm sure you will have noticed, and that is precisely the point. If heterosexuals feel that such questions are ridiculous and not rationally answerable, so do homosexals when they're asked the same questions in their context, as though they're the most obvious questions, with the most obvious answers in the world.

@the red bit...this is what i mean...you're viewing the world in terms of a bi-polarity...you're either Heterosexual, or you're something else, which is exactly the idea i'm refuting as an understanding of human beings. The whole idea of this questionnaire is to bring out how sexual orientation being viewed in particular ways is all part of a social initiative to define a human being in accordance with certain norms of conduct defined by society itself, not Nature, as you'd very much like to believe. The individual is denied something as basic as to define his or her own sexuality, because society virtually imposes a standard of heterosexuality on him/her. Anything deviating from that is, as you put it, 'against natural laws', which is another argument i completely disagree with. Something is not natural because you think it is natural. If your idea of Nature is based on what you consider a part of it, then the whole idea ceases to be natural, and becomes social. I've been through this Homosexuality-Is-Not-Natural routine before. Mods'll probably shut the topic ifi repeat all that in detail. In a nutshell, in saying that something is not Natural, you're obviously equating it with something that hasn't been seen in Nature, ie the animal world, say. There are also many other practices we do see on society but not in Nature, like marriage, for instance. Is that 'against the laws of nature' too, then? Secondly, homosexuals may be 'perverts', as you choose to term them, but they're very much human beings. So by saying that what they do is not natural, are you saying that human beings are NOT a part of Nature? If they are, then what they do is a part of nature. Then how is it against its laws?

I could go on and on on this and more, but what i can also see clearly in your answers is the fact that there is no way you and I can possibly agree on this issue, lol, so i'd say let's agree to disagree, and leave it at that.

cheers! 😊

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OMG, Nandini, you've no idea how much you have cracked me up with those questions. Honestly, I can't remember laughing as much as before. I read the topic about an hour before, but couldn't reply back then since I was viewing it from my mobile. I started to laugh then, and I still can't stop myself, looking at the way they have put and arranged each questions. 😆 I promise the next time I meet any homophobic person, I'm gonna address the same questions to them.

As a matter off fact, the questions aren't that maddening as it may seem on the first place. Because, after all, if homosexuality is a "choice", then suffice it to say heterosexuality is a choice, too.

On a side note, here are some topics where qweryesque had participated; you may as well like to go through them:

The gay gene?
Teaching Homosexuality in Schools..

...you may as well like to go through them, and see whether it is really worth questioning and "debating" with him. On another side note, qwertyesque, I do enjoy your posts even if I disagree with them. They are highly entertaining, and of course, good for a chuckle. 😉

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Ajnabee

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Posted: 15 years ago

How about this instead:

Originally posted by: nandinidev

THE HOMOSEXUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE

This questionnaire is for self-avowed Heterosexuals only. If you are not openly heterosexual, pass it on to a friend who is. Pl try to answer the questions as candidly as possible. Your responses will be held in strict confidence and your anonymity fully protected.

1. What do you think caused your homosexuality?

2. When and how did you first decide you were a homosexual?

3. Is it possible that your homosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?

4. Could it be that your homosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?

5. To whom have you disclosed your homosexual tendencies? How did they react?

6. Why do you insist on flaunting your homosexuality? Can't you just be what you are and keep it quiet?

7. Would you want your children to be homosexual, knowing the problems they'd have to face?

I think that you get the point, so I'll stop here.

8. Heterosexual are notorious for assigning themselves and one another rigid, stereotyped sex roles. Why must you cling to such unhealthy role-playing?

9. How can you hope to excercise your God-given homosexual potential if you limit yourself to exclusive, compulsive heterosexuality?

10. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. After all, you never deliberately chose to be a heterosexual, did you? Have you considered aversion therapy or Heterosexuals Anonymous?

I don't know why people who support homosexuality feel the need to bring down heterosexuality, or even to question other people's heterosexual tendencies. Can one not prove the existence of homosexuality without claiming heterosexuality to be a phase you grow out of, or a neurotic fear of the same sex, or unhealthy role playing stemming from stereotyped sex roles? Do all those questions not apply to homosexuality as well? If homosexuality is a choice, then why can't it be that perhaps heterosexuality is a choice as well? Why is it that those who are heterosexual are because society expects them to be, or because they do not know any better?

P.S. This post wasn't directed at the topic starter, but rather at the questionnaire itself, and those who came up with it.

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nandini

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Posted: 15 years ago

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*
How about this instead:

I don't know why people who support homosexuality feel the need to bring down heterosexuality, or even to question other people's heterosexual tendencies. Can one not prove the existence of homosexuality without claiming heterosexuality to be a phase you grow out of, or a neurotic fear of the same sex, or unhealthy role playing stemming from stereotyped sex roles? Do all those questions not apply to homosexuality as well? If homosexuality is a choice, then why can't it be that perhaps heterosexuality is a choice as well? Why is it that those who are heterosexual are because society expects them to be, or because they do not know any better?

P.S. This post wasn't directed at the topic starter, but rather at the questionnaire itself, and those who came up with it.

That is precisely the point the questionnaire is making. 😊 These questions are directed at Homosexuals exactly as you've modified them to become. They are questions the speaker at the seminar has himself been subjected to over the years he's lived openly as a homosexual in society, in India. They have been inverted for Heterosexuals to make exacty the point you're making, only, the other way round.

That sexual orientation is not something society can define for you. You are born with it, the way it is. It is only sexual roles that society defines, and the very idea of an 'alternative' sexual orientation comes from the fact that it deviates from those roles. It is 'alternative', because it does not confer to the standard society establishes. The point this questionnaire is trying to get across is that there is no 'standard' in nature, within the parameters of which a form of sexuality is to be accepted or condemned. The standard is purely social, which is why when questions like What do you think caused your Homosexuality/Heterosexuality are directed at individuals, it is a farce from both points of view. The conclusion then being that both are forms of sexuality that are equally valid, and so neither should be subjected to questionnaires like this one, because there is no need for either to justify its own existence to the society within which both exist. The effort is not to bring down heterosexuality, but to bring both Homosexuality as well as Heterosexuality to the same level. To say that doing this brings Heterosexuality 'down', is to presuppose that it stands 'higher' than Homosexuality, which is precisely what this questionnaire attempts to refute.

Cheers! 😊

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nandini

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Posted: 15 years ago

To illustrate my point, I'll do exactly what you did :

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*

I don't know why people who support Heterosexuality feel the need to bring down Homosexuality, or even to question other people's Homosexual tendencies. Can one not prove the existence of Heterosexuality without claiming Homosexuality to be a phase you grow out of, or a neurotic fear of the opposite sex, or unhealthy role playing deviating from stereotyped sex roles? Do all those questions not apply to Heterosexuality as well? If Heterosexuality is a choice, then why can't it be that perhaps Homosexuality is a choice as well? Why is it that those who are Homosexual are slandered because they are something society does not expect them to be, or are so because they do not know any better?

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return_to_hades

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Posted: 15 years ago

The topic and all the responses are so gay!

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nandini

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Posted: 15 years ago

@Labib...I know! 😆 When I was first handed that piece of paper, I did not quite know how to react to it, but when i looked closely, i realised the brilliance of the idea behind it.

As a matter off fact, the questions aren't that maddening as it may seem on the first place. Because, after all, if homosexuality is a "choice", then suffice it to say heterosexuality is a choice, too.

Absolutely. That's precisely the point the questionnaire is trying to put across to those who adress the same questions to Homosexuals in their context, like they're the most obvious questions, with the most obvious answers. So if these questions flummox them, it should be no wonder to them why Homosexuals find such questions so ridiculous. 😳

Oh, and thank you for the word of caution, as well as the links. Very enlightening. Lol. Makes me wonder why I went so overboard with that long essay in response.

No offense meant to qwertyesque, of course: you're perfectly entitled to your opinion, which is why i concluded my response to you at a Let's-Agree-To-Disagree stand, because i'm not sure how far any discussion will get between the two of us on this issue. Peace. 😊

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Ajnabee

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Posted: 15 years ago

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@nandini:

Haha, good job flipping it all around on me. 😆 Actually, what I was getting at there was that those who support homosexuality know that arguments made against homosexuality are based on similar ideology, and they refute it calling it illogical, but then why are they applying the same argument against heterosexuality?

Yes, I do see that the point of the questionnaire is to raise this very point. However, I will say that just because the argument is turned around on heterosexuals, it doesn't really support homosexuality in any sense, but only perhaps attempts to refute heterosexuality. The whole basis of this argument stands on the single assumption that homosexuality is, in fact, purely a natural phenomenon.

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