"Normal" sexuality?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

45. I'm being serious with this question: why do we need to define what "normal sexuality" is?

I think I agree with your OP to an extent--men are still the dominant group in the US, although things have changed radically over the last hundred years. So I can understand that any attempt to define normal sexuality would be tinted by the fact that men in this country are still afforded better and unequal rights than women, in some cases. But this is trifling compared to the way religion warps the view of what "normal sexuality" should be. Various religions have, since the dawn of religion, tried to control what sort of sex people have, when they have it, and the various qualities and settings that should, in the church's view, define normal sexuality. Choose any religion, tell me about how they feel about sex, and I'll show you a religion whose proclamations and prohibitions I'll continue to ignore.

What practical application is there for a nation deciding what normal sexuality is? We have the freedom here to choose our own sexual preferences--even if those choices bring derision and condemnation from various groups. I don't envision that there will ever be a time when we as a nation have some common view of what defines normal sexuality, and by contrast, what defines abnormal sexuality. So again I ask, beyond the already-codified confines of laws that protect against rape, pedophilia, and the like, what is the value in coming to some consensus on what normal sexuality is? Can't people just have the sexual makeup they're already possessed of, without having to conform to what someone else's idea of normal is?

thank you.