Animals do exhibit homosexual behavior patterns.

As for punishment, could you be satisfied with bobbiting?

And, CC, there are many communities in India that are suffering the ill effects of consanguineous marriages – which have social sanction. So the idea we have of incest/proscribed relationships needs a rewriting from both sides, a toning down in Haryana, and a tightening up in South India. Again, this is a moral quagmire. Can we bring eugenics into play in a relationship like marriage? Deny love to two people because they are close relatives? Deny a woman the right to give birth to her lover’s child? Give her the right to give birth to a deficient child doomed to misery in an unkind world? If you remember, amniocentesis came into being as a test to find out mainly if the foetus had genetic disorders – so we could decide to abort the mongoloid kid (or the daughter -the greatest birth defect). I am not particularly pro-life or pro-choice, but if it was my kid, I would not be able to make a decision either way if I had to.

Transvestites in Mizoram, who enjoys considerable freedom in society in respect of sartorial choices, are caught in a bind after the powerful local church opposes the Delhi High Court verdict legalising consensual gay sex.

The transvestites, known locally as Tuais, sport the very latest in female hot couture which till now no one objected, though the church authorities sometimes cast a glare.

But the court verdict has snapped their fine line of tolerance, or so it seems. The leaders of the local Presbyterian Church and some social organisations have said they are seeking ways to invoke the executive order of the colonial British rulers issued in 1909 which criminalised homosexuality.

Should prostitution be de-criminalised in India?

Pl limit the discussion on this thread to Homosexuality, Religion and 377. Thanks