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My thoughts on sexuality.

In my opinion there’s a gradient from heterosexual to homosexual. And people are born all across that gradient,however, anybody can choose to go against that gradient. Nobody is born strictly homosexual OR heterosexual, sexuality is a choice but it isn’t always a conscious one. I feel like there are a lot of people in the middle of the gradient predisposed biochemically to both sexualities but, only consciously choose to explore one.

Also, some arousal is due solely to physical stimulation. Even males paralyzed from the waist down can have an erection due to physical nerve reflex as opposed to pleasure signals sent consciously from the brain. So for people, with normal sensation, despite the gender of their partner they can experience physical pleasure. And if you take out the factor of the absence/presence of the physical aspects why does gender matter in the emotional aspect of a relationship?

Sexual orientation has to be fluid because gender is (genetically, physically, personally) fluid. “females”=XX “males”=XY but there’s also people with XXXX, XYY, and XO sex chromosomes. Who are we to define gender/orientation norms for anybody based on something as fluid as genetics?

And after writing out this long post IMHO I feel that the reason most religions condemn homosexuality is because the “natural” thing is to reproduce and they encourage relationships that can product viable offspring. Ex: incest is usually discouraged and those relationships often birth babies with a high number of high-risk recessive diseases and conditions. In royal families where there are a lot of relationships within closely related individuals you often see recessive ailments such as hemophilia. However, without incest incidences of these conditions would not appear within the family as often. No society can survive with the complete absence of sex for reproductive purposes nor with a surplus of relationships that will not produce relatively healthy children.

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0rdinaryy:

Congressman Bobby Rush dons a hoodie in support of Trayvon Martin, violating House dress code. 

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I pledge to myself to stop being passive aggressive and:

start being a more conscious friend.

start setting goals.

start reaching goals.

start writing again.

start breathing,living, breathing again.

start being spontaneous.

start exceeding my own expectations.

just pass my 2 year nappiversary (: my fully stretched hair is somewhere around collar bone length. Chemical-Free since Tuesday, March, 23, 2010 

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manifestamber:

Movies You Shouldn’t Sleep On: Skin

Skin is a biographical tale of a resilient woman. It is based on the true story of Sandra Laing, a Black woman born to two white parents in apartheid era South Africa. After years of rejecting herself and trying to understand why her skin color is such an issue, Sandra finally accepts herself when she falls in love with a Black man. Unfortunately the cost of coming to terms with her skin color is tearing apart her family. Her father, who spent years campaigning for her to be classified as white, disowns her and the rest of the family falls in line. The movie follows her as she struggles to make it on her own, raise a family and reconnect with her family. 

First of all, Sophie Okenado does an amazing job as the lead in this film. She’s absolutely beautiful, mousy and awkward all at once. Honestly, I cringed and turned my head through the majority of Hotel Rwanda so I don’t really remember her in that and she freaked me out in Secret Life of Bees (which I did not like at all) so this was really the first time I’ve seen her act. She’s definitely underrated and underused. The rest of the cast was solid too including Ella Ramangwane, the actress that played young Sandra. There was not a bad actor in the movie. 

It’s pretty hard to find a good drama but this is actually a really well made movie. No complaints here. You can’t help but wonder though, why didn’t it get more attention? Well a quick search on the web gives you two reason the first being that the majority of the cast is Black and writer and director Anthony Fabian (who happens to be white) described major US distributors as “unforthcoming” because of the perception that a black cast wouldn’t generate much money. The second reason is pretty obvious. The movie is about race identity and blatant racism which are always touchy subjects. I even came across a discussion topic entitled “Not Another Movie On Racism Again!”. You can kind of draw your own conclusions with that one…

Overall Grade: A+

Where You Can Watch it: Streaming on Netflix or here

lacquerandcandy:

Earth Toned Sex: I want to lose my breath and…

seesogo:

I want to lose my breath and voice.

I want to be tossed around.

I want it to hurt in the morning.

I want to be dined on.

I want to be filled.

I want to be told to keep the heels on.

I want my flexibility tested.

I want my room littered with gold wrappers and Gatorade bottles.

I want rope rug burn.

I want my hips lifted to meet a thrust.

I want to taste myself from the lips of another.

I want to dominate.

I want to do a split on a face.

I want orgasm aftershocks.

URGH! I need to pray or something yeesh….

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:(

I’m sinking again.
One day I’ll probably just d r o w n.
Silently, of course.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

itsnewyorkcity:

Morningside Heights..

My new home!

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