<i>"Your assumptions are wrong that by putting two guys together decreases inhibitions. The best way to destroy a friendship is to get sexually involved. "</i>
I never said anything about the two guys being friends. Again, it's not an assumption, I've given my reasoning.
<i>"That is why you have gay bath houses, cruise areas in parks and public places, glory holes in public rest rooms, etc. "</i>
Like you have brothels, nude dance bars, and "massage" parlors? Prostitution?
"<i>Gay men seek out sex to a greater extent than straight men who just think about it and then don't follow through with the thoughts. Also straight men can and do excercise self control to a greater extent than gay men."</i>
I think that's a pretty broad and unfair assumption. That's sort of what we're discussing here, you can't just jump to a conclusion and use it as your reasoning. Besides, I've known plenty of gay people who seem to exercise more self control than some straight people I know
<i>"As to societal and family pressure, although this is true to a degree, to blame society because the gay community cannot maintain relationships is ludicrous. I saw as many gay relationships break up where their biological families accepted them for who they are as I did gay relationships break up where their families disapproved. In fact you would expect those whose families disapproved to be more focused on establishing and maintaining long-term relationships to fill the void left by their biological families."</i>
I thought this was about promiscuity, not hardships in relationships. I don't blame society for two gay people breaking up. But to repsond to that last point, you also might expect people raised in an abusive home to treat their own children better to fill the void they felt, butit doesn't work that way.
<i>"As to what society thinks, so what? Did societal and family pressure stop heterosexuals from advancing the sexual revolution of the 60's? No!"</i>
That's...completely different. The sexual revolution was, in itself, reprsentative of a large part of society. It was fuled by and resulting from <i>numerous</i> events of the 50s and 60s. I'm decribing a situation where a society represses a group, and where that group finds no models for relationships in mdeia or that society.