For those who believe homosexuality can be "cured"

[ahinton]

I think that what Sydney is alluding to is the idea (reasonably well founded) that very few people are 100% homo or hetero sexual, and that sexuality is not fixed in time or object.

Whilst that is indeed correct, it's not at all the impression that Sydney's appeared to wish to convey in his post.

In some circumstances (prison, armed forces, single-sex schools) men (or boys) who might think of themselves as 'heterosexual' will happily engage in same-sex activity. 19th and 20th century thinking about sex and sexuality is hopelessly muddled - other societies & other times were much more relaxed - & probably happier.

Recognising this - and doing so for what it is and also the extent to which such instances have ever occurred - is a very far cry indeed from the notion of segregating the sexes as Sydney has suggested - and an even farther one from his as yet unexplained idea of institutionalising male but not female children at an early age.

As for the screens, I find Sydney's comments (including his first concerning aggression) rather more interesting & germane to the topic than an argument about UKIP.

Most things are - but whilst I agree with you about his remarks about aggression, the rest not only make no sense to me but seem almost wilfully inhuman and inhumane by reason of being unrealistic.

[ahinton]

Annual encounters around the maypole could be arranged for those asking for it. Perhaps even quarterly.

Wht on earth is that supposed even to mean, let alone to conribute to this discussion? - and why a maypole? especially if "quarterly (and why quarterly anyway?) or those asking who for it? YOu have also carefully omitted to mention what you'd institutionalise male children but not female ones at an early age, still less why...

[Flosshilde]

Ancient fertility rites.

[jean]

I wonder if Sydney has read Marge Piercy's excellent Woman On The Edge Of Time?

He won't have. He thinks women are supremely uninteresting.