NEW QUESTION: WOULD SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TAME GAY MEN?

Okay, so most iterations of that argument don't put it quite so bluntly. But one of the undercurrents of the gay marriage debate is the idea that marriage tames men, in general, and so gay marriage would help transform gay male culture, shifting it away from promiscuity and toward responsibility and sexual restraint.

But a lot of people within the gay community find this line of argument insulting (gay men as dangerous wild beasts), irrelevant (if same-sex marriage is a right, why does it matter how people would use that right?), or wrong-headed from the start (since people should be able to craft marriages that meet their needs, rather than conforming to a one-size-fits-all model). And many opponents of SSM suggest, among other things, that it's women who tame men in marriage; or that the cultural influences might flow both ways, reducing the cultural belief that marriage requires sexual fidelity.

...I note that lesbians are mostly--though not entirely--conspicuous by their absence on all sides of this particular public debate, and it might be nice if that changed, too.

What's your view?

posted by Eve at 5:19 PM | link

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