Iran, the land of (0) gays seems to be having a Gay and Sex Problem

Bits of news here and there suggests that the religion loving and zero gay community as their late president of Iran said a few times and managed a straight face, that such a thing is not true.  Not true but the opposite of the face Iran is showing to the world. Sexuality both gay and straight is an everyday common affair in Iran.

 Per the Economist:

An 82-page document recently issued by Iran’s parliamentary research department is stark in its findings. Not only are young adults sexually active, with 80% of unmarried females having boyfriends, but secondary-school pupils are, too. Illicit unions are not just between girls and boys; 17% of the 142,000 students who were surveyed said that they were homosexual.

If the report is remotely accurate, it would mean that Iran’s population could contain a much higher percentage of gay individuals than the American population.

In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released last month, a mere 1.6 percent of Americans adults identified as gay, while other estimates have pegged the American gay population between 3 and 10 percent.

The report also contradicts the 2007 comment from then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whofamously told an audience at Columbia University that, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”

The Iranian report, the Economist noted, floats a bizarre recommendation for combatting illicit sex: temporary marriages.

[Researchers' recommendation] for stopping unsanctioned sex is remarkably liberal. Instead of seeking to cool the loins of the youngsters altogether, they should be allowed publicly to register their union by using sigheh, an ancient practice in Shia Islam that lets people marry temporarily. A legal but loose and much-deprecated arrangement, which can last from a few hours to decades, sigheh is often viewed as a cover for promiscuity or prostitution. Clerics themselves have long been suspected of being among its biggest beneficiaries, sometimes when they are on extended holy retreats in ancient religious cities such as Qom.

For less conservative Iranians, some of whom even jokingly describe themselves as “not real Muslims”, the report is merely an admission of reality—and an amusing distraction from the austere topics usually occupying their leaders’ minds. “This is what every human body needs,” says Zahra, a 32-year-old chemist who lives with her boyfriend in northern Tehran and declares that she has no intention of seeking authorisation to have sex. “I have one life and though I love my country, I cannot wait for its leaders to grow up,” she adds.

According to the Economist, Iranian media are largely ignoring the report.

Source: The blaze

This is not to say to some Iranians are being round up, tortured, jail and executed. This is also happening. It seems that as long as the authorities, in this case the sex police and the Sharia law enforcers are not publicly defied all the other things are swept under the rug. After all how many gays and straights that fool around can the government jail and execute before they have a real revolution on their hands?  The government is trying to do two opposites things at the same time. Where is this going to lead? Who knows. We have Cuba, Vietnam and a few others in which being gay meant jail or like in Cuba deportation. Yet that phase was just that, phased out. The government realized that gays posed no thread but going after people over something as natural as sex was making no sense. You now have gay pride in Cuba. No weddings but there are unions which might not be government sponsored but the government clearly allows them to be.

As we have seen in this country, the issue of thousands upon thousands if not millions upon millions of gays first is treated like they were exterminating a pest. When this nears no fruit on the issue then comes the second stage of denying what is going on sometimes in front of people faces. Many excuses are put forth like those are only a few crazies with no morals, etc. When the pest issue starts hitting home, like family of law makers and important people (lets say the 2%) being found out and scandal occurring in which lawmakers and governments fall, they start rethinking that idea and like in the US with the help of gay activists and pressure from the community by coming out and showing real numbers we find some parts of the government making an about face. In the United States all we need now is for the Supreme Court  to hurry up and makes up its mind to take the case and this issue will have been settled legally. 

Not all the people are going to be in favor of it but as long as the majority like in interracial marriage and civil rights for blacks is in favor of it with the law behind it, those bigots can yell and scream all they like. The only thing they accomplish is getting sons and daughters with similar bigot thoughts but that is about it. 

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher

From The Guide magazine, October 2005

Iran's hanging of two teenagers for sodomy sparked gay outrage and a yawn from the mainstream.