[Reader-list] Fw: Baba Ramdev claims Yoga has a cure...

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Afterall, question remains, how to 'convince' people like Baba who say that it is not natural. I mean could be posit an argument saying homosexuality is natural?

In which ways, we could re-articulate history of sexual relations in anthropology, I think. 

Counter-argument: will it be 're-articulation'?

Dnyan


--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Fw: Baba Ramdev claims Yoga has a cure...
> To: "subhrodip sengupta" <sub_sengupta at yahoo.co.in>
> Cc: "Readers list Yousuf Sarai." <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 1:46 AM
> Since people have raised the question
> of homosexuality not being natural, I
> would also like to know what is this 'natural'. In their
> evolution, human
> beings must have killed animals, and now continue to do so
> (though mostly in
> the name of poaching). Is that natural, or not?
> 
> Women would have not been subjected to marriage in very
> early history of
> existence of human beings, but now they do marry. Is that
> natural?
> 
> There must have been a time when it must have been decided
> that women have
> to stay in 'purdah' by someone. At that moment of time,
> would that have been
> natural?
> 
> The biggest problem is that one can't be sure whether
> something is natural
> or not. What is only natural, is change. Change has to take
> place with time,
> and changes do occur. And as for homosexuality being
> natural or not, if the
> scriptures of the 'Hindu religion' have content on it and
> these scriptures
> are quite old, then obviously by your definition, they
> can't be considered
> 'natural'.
> 
> The correct statement should be that homosexuals are in a
> minority in India,
> and it's not the mainstream practiced custom in India. That
> is certainly
> true as of now.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rakesh
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