chromium
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With the exception of the "twink" phenomena (which could be passed off as more masculine gay men looking for something as close as possible to a woman without having to actually find one), gay men do tend to go after classic signs of reproductive "virility" just as straight women are wont do, under most circumstances. This would seem to imply that reproductive instincts, if not necessarily function are still at play. They have simply been misdirected.
I don't know what makes people attracted to certain individuals or body types, but thinking of how some insist they only like certain races for example, social conditioning could be a factor. I don't know that it's as determined at birth as attraction to gender.
Again, that depends on how one defines "harm" in the first place. Being different for no reason and having to go out of one's way to adapt can be viewed as being "harmful" in a fashion, though not everyone is inclined to accept that argument.
Depends what you compare it to. Your list (dwarfism, autism) and i could add plenty others like blind or deaf, might contribute to human diversity like i argued, but those traits are what i'd call inherently harmful. They always make life more difficult and how the rest of us respond to them - no matter how kind or accepting - doesn't change that. We can work to make it less difficult, but not so it's 100% the same as being free of that condition.
From experience i can tell you being homosexual isn't like that. Whatever difficulty comes from society not accepting it, "for no reason" i would argue - thus that is what needs to change. In a hateful environment as a minor, it was difficult but again the harm comes from others being haters. In accepting environment, it's really no more difficult. The difference between the two was vast and immediately obvious. Homophobia is what needs to be cured.
Homosexuality is also a biological and statistical anomaly with no immediately useful function, where the other attributes you listed are not.
What is the useful function to being blue eyed? It is actually statistically abnormal. How about the elderly? They are abnormal and lack function once they reach a certain point. Guess we better off them all huh
Sorry, but I really don't see any objective value in such a state of affairs. :shrug:
If you only cared for 'objective value' like a socialist or something, that would be one thing. I doubt that all your beliefs align with what's "best" for the species as a whole. Else you'd favor aborting down syndrome fetus, sterilizing drug addict or simply poor mothers, and so on. There is a long list of human failures and inconveniences that are largely preventable and less harmful than homosexuality.