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A World Like Our Own

Many times, especially these days with gender being one of my subjects of study, I've wondered what would life be like if we lived in a world where it was "normal" to be homosexual, and "unnatural" to be heterosexual. You clever people will immediately bring up the problem of procreation, but what if there was another social system of creating life, like donors, surrogates or test tube babies.

Now you'll probably say that these are systems of our modern world. I do agree, but there are always ways of making space for such a need through socially accepted customs and rituals. For example, I once read a book called The Pregnant King which was based around the time of the Mahabharata. Here we see that there was a system among the people which allowed an impotent husband to choose a young man from the village to impregnate his wife for him. In the book, a man chooses his nephew or some relative to do so. This was all highly acceptable.

So tell me, other than the desperate attempt at reasoning through religion, why can't people freely choose who they would like to be with and who they would like to marry? At first I had major difficulty trying to imagine a world so different from our own, but I just happened to come across an interesting short film dealing with this same issue. The film is called Love is All You Need? and was created and directed by K.Rocco Shields as a part of WingSpan Pictures. Have a look. Its very interesting.

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