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But what does certain kinks being illegal have to do with homosexuality, bisexuality or being trans, when the vast majority of people who practice those kinks are heterosexual? If people want to protest the illegality of whipping your consenting partner, what does that actually have to do with the LGBT community apart from the fact that a minority of practitioners also happen to be part of that community?
But pride needs to pick a side. Either it's an in-your-face protest event that parents would know to swerve or it's a place to sign up for a Capital One card and buy rainbow glitter cake for your kids.
This makes no sense either. Why can't it be a time and a place thing? Where the middle of the day street parade and festival is non sexual. Then various adult only off-shoot events where LGBT people who enjoy kink can gather together. If they want as 'kink' encompasses a lot. I've practiced and enjoyed some S&M in my time but I can tell you that my desire to spend any time with some Furries doing their thing is absolutely zero.
I think it comes out of ale sexuality, and male sexuality with no women involved can, and sometimes does, ramp things up to the max.
Much as the sex positive people want to deny it, female sexuality tends to be different, and in heterosexual relationships it tends act as a sort of limiting factor. All the statistics confirm this, there is a reason that the average number of partners for gay men is miles above what it is for heterosexual couples or lesbians, as non-PC as it is to mention.
And while some gay men aren't interested in that sort of thing there is a group that not only is, they tend to see it as part and parcel of being gay - Peter Tatchell being an example, or men you hear from time to time complaining that gay men are now too normal and mainstream.
I think that this same group is also much more likely to be into kink, and more extreme kinds.
A huge part of the gay rights movement was trying to combat this image, and it's probably not chance that it grew in the immediate aftermath of the AIDS crisis. But there has been something of a resurgence in popularity, or acceptance? in recent years. Maybe people being less concerned about AIDS is part of that too.
But it's a dangerous situation. Like FloralBunting said, this was the kind of thing people thought about with section 28. Or for that matter, laws in places like Russia today. I don't think Pride is doing much to convince non-western nations that our way is better, that's for sure.