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Are there any books that reconcile Szasz's stance that mental illness doesn't exist with the stance that homosexuality is a mental illness?

>> No.18171852

>>18171781
it's easy, homosexuality doesn't exist, only homolust.
Each and every gay man only needs the right pussy, each and every lesbian only needs the right dick

>> No.18171856

>>18171852
You're dangerously close to advocating corrective rape.

>> No.18171865

>>18171781
sexual desire is in the heart ("instincts") not in the brain ("reason")

>> No.18172392

>>18171856
>corrective rape.
sounds hot as fuck. If we implemented that, I would claim I'm gay to get my forced heterization pussy. They would never cure me, I would always assert that my lust for cock did not diminish

>> No.18172425

>>18171865
What you call sexual desire is just bodily pleasure and not a pleasure of a special kind ("instincts") which is categorised as sexual by a specific rationality ("sexual") as well as the object of desire.
>>18171781
He does those two asertions on that same book?

>> No.18172429

is it a fallacy to say that if homosexuality is true, homos would never be able to be aroused be the opposite sex? does it then mean that only bisexuality exists?

>> No.18172440

>>18171781
Try a Ben Shapiro book if you're too /pol/tarded to see the contradiction that cannot be reconciled there

>> No.18172443

>>18171781
Because Szasz is wrong? Mental illnesses don't "not exist" because the categories aren't cut and dry

>> No.18172460

>>18172443
Also this sounds like one of those retarded arguments where it isn't "X doesn't exist" but rather "if we acknowledge the existence of X it would have negative moral consequences, therefore we should pretend like X doesn't exist"

>> No.18172524

>>18172440
try Thomas Mann if you are blind to humour

>> No.18172550
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>>18171781

>> No.18172643

>>18172524
oh...

>> No.18172728

>>18172550
Refuted by that book whose title I forgot but it's somewhere on my Goodreads want-to-read list, wait bro Imma check

>> No.18172739

>>18172429
No, it's a phallusy

>> No.18172750

>>18172739
LMAO good one anon

>> No.18172760

>>18172392
Add the incels to the list

>> No.18172799

>>18172728
where is the book anon?

>> No.18172836

>>18171856
problem?

>> No.18172844

>>18171852
>Each and every gay man only needs the right pussy
Yikes

>> No.18172874

>>18171781
The only behaviors we can empirically call mental illnesses are ones that directly impede survival and/ or reproduction. This would exclude the vast majority of behaviors our society classifies as mental illnesses but would include homosexuality (as well as using birth control).

>> No.18172888

>>18172760
what list anon?

>> No.18172895

>>18172799
I don't feel like looking it up because Goodreads' listing system's UI is tedious. Maybe I'll see to it later

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>>18172392
>They would never cure me, I would always assert that my lust for cock did not diminish
yfw they give up and just feed you cocks instead

>> No.18173004

>>18172895
it's homosexuality in ancient greece : the myth is collapsing

>> No.18173012

>>18173004
Yes, that

>> No.18173022
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18173022

>>18173004
>one book written by a literal who greek far-right politician debunks 2,000 years of scholarly consensus

>> No.18173061

>>18172965
then I would instead say, the ciocklust diminishes, but only during the refractory period. then it flares up again, so they'd have to constantly drain my balls in 25 minute intervals. all day. every day. please God let it happen

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>>18173022
Based homolust

>> No.18173142

>>18173022
Not reading that and not reading the book

>> No.18173149

>>18171781
Homosexuality as illness is the perfect example of why mental illness is bogus
It's just more Things I Don't Agree With for 500
>>18171852
You just need the right cock up your ass to start wearing programming socks and calling yourself Nancy