but records suggest that homosexuality was present in Africa, possibly from the earliest European contact. The 'yan dauda� (homosexual) and 'dan dauda� (homosexual �wife�) in Hausa-land are known to either engage as male prostitutes and/or are procurers for female prostitutes. In some parts of the southwest in Yoruba-land there are historical accounts of men who behave effeminately, generally referred to as �gbowo�. These people were recounted to be mostly good orators, exemplary craftsmen, musicians, and poets.

the Labour govt passed the law legalising same sex marriage in the UK

I wonder how the world will look like if we all become gay or lesbians! How will society reproduce itself?

The same govt has approved that these people, who deliberately said they are not going to sleep with the opposite sex, are free to adopt children. They don't want children of their own, but can adopt children born by humans like them! That is funny!

I wonder how the world will look like if we all become gay or lesbians! How will society reproduce itself?

It is unwise and quite unfair to speak categorically in a negative manner about these people when we dont even know how their shoes fit like. Have you asked yourself, how defiant could someone be to continue to weather perpetual persecution just to maintain a lifestyle he could have controlled to avoid that persecution?

Tell me how many of you men have anal sex with your wives in secret? Why do you do this? Do you imagine that a mens anus is different to your wives? Wives why do you put up with anal sex from your husbands?

Nobody knows what makes a man to be sexually attracted to another man or a woman sexually attracted to another woman. And the claim that Africans, just because they are Africans, cannot be or are not naturally homosexual or bisexual is a delusion, since human nature is just human nature. What two adult do with each other is a private business and cannot be legislated against.

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I wonder how the world will look like if we all become gay or lesbians! How will society reproduce itself?

I think it was in Dec, 2005 that the Labour govt passed the law legalising same sex marriage in the UK and a year later, Dec, 2006, more 15,000 couples have been wedded in the Registries. If we go by that figure, it means that by Dec, 2008, about 45,000 of such marriages have been registered in the UK, conservatively.

So, we can see that the figure is probably rising. The same govt has approved that these people, who deliberately said they are not going to sleep with the opposite sex, are free to adopt children. They don't want children of their own, but can adopt children born by humans like them! That is funny!

There is no doubt that there are a lot of these people in Nigeria. Some big shots are involved in it, which they do in absolute secrecy. That they do it in secret shows that they know that it is an unnatural act. We should, for the sake of humanity, speak against these acts and seek to counsel those who are involved in it, that is, if they willing to come forward. Violence against them in Nigeria should be ruled out.

From what one has gathered in the UK, these behaviour patterns are mostly learned and rarely genetical. It is a learned behaviour pattern. The rate of divorce in this clime too might be another contributory factor. Most males and females distrust marriage. Their hearts have been broken by trusted ones thus they sought solace and bliss else where.

I pray always that God will descend one day; never to re-ascend. The advanced clime may be technologically up there, but the world is morally going down, big time!

Europeans are of the mindset that our female genital mutilation practice is nonsensical and as a result, we should condemn and reject it. And we, Africans, are saying that their homosexual culture is as misnomer as it is hedonistic, and as a result, Africans do not want to have anything to do with it. So where exactly is the problem? They do not like our system of circumcising female and we do not like their homosexual madness. Why are they forcing us to embrace their ills, when we are not superimposing upon them to accept ours? I thought that they pride themselves of being civilised?

Homosexuality is a personal choice � it is like choosing to rob a bank. Adolf Hitler once contemplated among other things, the deportation of homosexuals to Madagascar as a punishment. Whether he is right, is matter of another debate. Those with nuisance behaviour should bear the brunt of stigma that their actions stir up.

During the Middle Ages, there was the practice of witchcraft via which many were innocently killed. But there came a time when the practice was outlawed by Europeans with a legislation that anyone who witch-hunted the other to death has committed murder, and shall be put to death, that brought the killing in the name of witchcraft to an end. If Europeans are serious to end homosexuality, a single legislation like the witchcraft one will do, to stop the pervasive act of sodomy.

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\"...This month’s myth is heterosexuals do not participate in penile-anal intercourse. In fact, most people believe that only homosexual men have penile-anal intercourse, and they believe that all homosexual men have penile-anal intercourse, and we will deal with that some other month. This month we’re going to deal with the idea that in fact heterosexuals do not have penile-anal intercourse. Now the historical and ethnographic record – the ethnographic record is what happens in other cultures, and the historical record is of course history – disputes this idea very much – that heterosexual anal intercourse is rare or that it is limited to any one culture. There are Greek ceramics, Roman oil lamps, ancient Peruvian chica pots and Lambayequen pottery, East Indian temple sculptures and miniature paintings, Persian paintings, Chinese and Japanese paintings and prints, African carvings and metal sculptures, French paintings and illustrations, Austrian and German bronzes and porcelains – and this is just to name a few things that show us heterosexuals having penile-anal intercourse. So we know that people have been doing it all over the world, and we know that they’ve been doing it for a very long time because some of these sculptures and paintings go back through centuries, and some of them even before the Christian era. Modern research also supports the view that many heterosexuals have participated in penile-anal intercourse at least one time...\"

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\"Kinsey data collected between 1938-1963 found that 9 percent of non-married males and 28 percent of non-married females had engaged in anal sex at least once. Among married subjects, the numbers were much lower--around 11 percent for both men and women.

In 1974, Playboy magazine published a huge survey of over 2000 people. Depending on the age of the respondent, between 14 and 25 percent of people said they had tried anal sex at least once.

A more recent study, conducted in 1990 at the Kinsey Institute, found that 27 percent of male and 24 percent of female college students had anal sex at least once.

One researcher, who surveyed one group of people in the 1970s then another in the late 1980s, offers a good point of comparison. In the first survey, 25 percent of women had anal sex and 8 percent reported engaging in it regularly. In the second, 72 percent had anal sex, and 23 percent reported engaging in it regularly.
A 1991 survey of 3200 men (in a nationally representative sample) found that 20 percent of men age 20 to 39 had engaged in anal sex at least once. Fifty percent of the men who had tried it had only tried it once. Interestingly, in this more contemporary study, more older men reported having had anal sex than younger men (27 percent of men age 35 to 39 versus 13 percent of men age 20 to 24).

The most recent U.S. data from a national representative sample comes from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), which was conducted on over 12,000 men and women aged 15 to 44. Results show that 34 percent of men and 30 percent of women reported engaging in anal sex at least once.

In a 1996 survey of Swedish women aged 18 to 74, about 20 percent of women overall reported having engaged in anal sex--specifically, 28 percent of 25 to 34 year-olds and 2 percent of 66 to 74 year-olds.
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Bolling, D. “Heterosexual Anal Intercourse: A Common Entity, Perceived Rarity, Neglected Patients and Ostrich Syndrome.” Paper presented at the 1987 Kinsey Institute Conference, AIDS and sex: An integrated biomedical and biobehavioral approach, Bloomington, IN, December 5-8, 1987.
Fugl-Meyer, K.S., Oberg, K., Lundberg,P.O., et al. \"On Orgasm, Sexual Techniques, and Erotic Perceptions in 18- to 74-Year-Old Swedish Women\" Journal of Sexual Medicine Volume 3, No. 1, (2006):56-68.
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\"..About a third of heterosexual couples in Britain are thought to use anal sex as an occasional method of sexual expression, with about 10% using it as a preferred or regular method.2 Perhaps two thirds of gay men practise anal sex as a regular part of their sexual repertoire. This means that, in absolute numbers, there are more heterosexuals having anal sex than there are gay men. There are little published data on how many heterosexual men would like their anus to be sexually stimulated in a heterosexual relationship. Anecdotally, it is a substantial number. What data we do have almost all relate to penetrative sexual acts, and the superficial contact of the anal ring with fingers or the tongue is even less well documented but may be assumed to be a common sexual activity for men of all sexual orientations...\"

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Given that engagement in anal sex seems to be fairly consistant across the sexual spectrum and prevelant within both genders, One cannot in all seriousness continue to propagate the myth that anal sex is a \"gay thing\". Likewise one cannot continue to use it as a substantive tool to discriminate against homosexuals. Given the studies and statistics, one must ask ones self to what is it that am really objecting ?and more importantly why do I feel I have the right to pass judgment on something that has absolutely no reference to me in any shape or form ? After all if intimacy between two people is consensual and is not being forced on me.. then why is it that I mind so much ?
personally I am more concerned by the Iraq, poverty and global warming, than what goes on behind someone elses closed doors.

Why the emphasis on anal sex?

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Are you also trying to imply that the pleasure of anal sex is why men become gay?

( no- where did you get that from?)
Are you saying that an heterosexual couple who engage in anal sex and enjoy it would because of that necessarily have anal sex with people of the same sex just because they enjoy anal sex? i. e because i have anal sex with my girlfriend and enjoy it does not mean i would be willing to have it with a man.
( no- again have no idea how you reasoned that)


Personally in as much as i believe some form of genetic make up influences people to become gay, i however also believe peer pressure, mans innate desire to experiment and developmental problems such as a man growing up under an excessively aggressive mother e.t.c may have also contributed to people becoming gay. This however is my personal opinion.

Personally also, i have realised its one thing to have an intellectual view on issues and publicly express this as many have done on this forum only to change that view when that same issue or situation 'comes home to roost' or moves closer to home. Basically, when i find myself in a position of uncertainty in taking a categorical stand on issues, the way i like to fully and honestly gauge my feelings towards that issue is to imagine someone close or dear to me being in that particular situation for example i would look at my young daughter or son and imagine how i would feel later when he or she in future suddenly come to tell me they are in a same sex relationship and that i probably would not have a grandchild? Yes i know about artificial insemination and all that but quite frankly i do not even like the thought and i sincerely hope it never comes to that.I would therefore implore all those that seem to be taking an intellectual view on this issue to also imagine the possibility of say their only son or daughter in future revealing this to them and then truly and honestly determine if it would be ok with them. If it is, then fine, but i can only speak for myself.

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@Ada,

Please how do lesbians have anal sex????