Surgeon General nom. supports ex-gay conversion therapy; indulges in lurid, graphic gay fantasies!

[marmar]

From The Nation:


BLOG | Posted 06/06/2007 @ 4:11pm
Surgeon General Nominee's Gay Fascination

Richard Kim

Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire this week for his anti-gay politics (first documented by Bible Belt Blogger Frank Lockwood). By day Holsinger teaches health sciences at the University of Kentucky where he was chancellor of the Chandler Medical Center. By night, however, the good doctor is a bible-thumping Reverend with a degree in biblical studies from Asbury Theological Seminary and a seeming fascination of antipathy towards homosexuals.

Holsinger founded the Hope Springs Community Church, a "recovery ministry" that caters to alcoholics, drug addicts, sex addicts and those seeking to "walk out of that lifestyle," according to its pastor Rev. David Calhoun. When not busy endorsing ex-gay conversion therapy, Holsinger served on the highest court of the United Methodist Church where he voted to remove a lesbian pastor from her position.

And today, the Human Rights Campaign released a document Holsinger authored in 1991 as a member of the United Methodist Church's Committee to Study Homosexuality. Titled Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality, Holsinger's religious tract-cum-scientific paper is a fascinating window into the perverse imagination of homophobia. In essence, Holsinger argues that male-female "reproductive systems are fully complementary" because "anatomically the vagina is designed to receive the penis." The remainder of his paper is a graphic account of the "delicate" rectum which is "incapable" of "protection" if "objects that are large, sharp, or pointed are inserted" into it. From there Holsinger continues to discuss what he imagines are the pains (and pleasures?) of anal sex, from "fist fornication" and "sphincter injuries" to "lacerations," "perforations" and "deaths seen in connection with anal eroticism."

Sharp objects! Deaths seen in connection with anal eroticism! Gadzooks! Now, I've been around the block one or ten times, and I don't know any gay men who have put scissors up their ass much less died from it. Of course, the barely mentioned but palpably anxious context in which Holsinger connects "death" with "anal eroticism" is the AIDS epidemic. And it should come as no surprise that his paper was part of a larger, pseudo-medical, moral discourse in which gay men's mode of sex (and by extension gay men) were blamed for AIDS - the death we deserved, the sexual suicide we courted.

The flip side of Dr. Holsinger's lurid speculation is the dangerous presumption that because heterosexual sex is "natural," it is safe -- safe from HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases and the trauma and injury that Holsinger seems so feverishly eager to attribute to gay anal sex. We now know, tragically and beyond any possible doubt, that heterosexual sex is not safe unless one practices it as such. And no amount of wishing and praying by our next Surgeon General on the "complementarity of the human sexes" will make it so. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15

[MistressOverdone]

1. Okay, I don't know

anything about this guy and know less about male anal sex, but when I was in nursing school I did see a man die from lacerations from an inserted shot glass. When it broke he failed to get help and he bled to death.

But I'm kind of thinking there have been equally imaginative insertions into females throughout the years.

[shenmue]

3. You are *thinking* about this?

You are actually scouring your mind right now for death stories related to pointy objects back there?

:|

Slow down!

:rofl:

[MistressOverdone]

4. It's a southern idiom

"I'm thinkin'..."

Kind of like "I'm fixin' to" or my favorite variation, "I'm fittin' to..."

So I'm fittin' to sign off now and think about woozies and sharp objects.

[shenmue]

2. My mind is boggled

:rofl:

We have to make sure somebody brings this up in the guy's confirmation hearings. I want them to read the whole report, complete with the thing about pointed objects.

Seriously. What's wrong with these people? :dunce:

[MotorCityMan]

5. Anyone remember the best selling book on sex from the '70's

called "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask"?

That is what this guy sounds like. I came out in '83, and was lucky enough to have a few close friends who came out at the same time.

One of my friends showed me the chapter on homosexuality in that book, and we laughed like hell. It had the same fear/hatred of gays and anal sex, and the book went on about how gay men will just shove ANYthing up their back doors.

I remember a doctor in the chapter talking about a gay man having a flash light inserted into his anus, and how he was the most "turned on faggot" in town.

Nice to see how far some people's views on sex have progressed in 30+ years, isn't it? :crazy: