Comments on: ARE SEX VENUES HARMING THE GAY COMMUNITY? https://www.mambaonline.com/2014/03/04/are-sex-venues-harming-the-gay-community/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Danie de Waal https://www.mambaonline.com/2014/03/04/are-sex-venues-harming-the-gay-community/#comment-40234 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:14:58 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=39648#comment-40234 In reply to Wayne van Niekerk.

I respect your opinion Wayne, but think you are using the wrong word when you say it is abnormal. I think millions enjoy sex venues (gay or straight).

]]> By: Danie de Waal https://www.mambaonline.com/2014/03/04/are-sex-venues-harming-the-gay-community/#comment-40233 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:12:55 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=39648#comment-40233 I do not often visit gay sex venues, and if they all close it would not cause any change in my behavior. I have not done any ‘scientific’ research, but I do believe that there is no city in the world with more gay sex venues, than venues aimed at the straight market.

I believe that most of us are much to anal about sex, and think that it should be more open and is something to be enjoyed by all adults. Sex workers should be legalized, taxed and controlled and not driven underground. The purpose of a sex venue is for me not to meet in a clandestine fashion, but simply to enjoy sex (responsibly and with protection) with multiple partners.

]]> By: Wayne van Niekerk https://www.mambaonline.com/2014/03/04/are-sex-venues-harming-the-gay-community/#comment-40216 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:22:09 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=39648#comment-40216 And, if only I could spell.
Personally, I think steam baths etc are abnormal and not for me. I am conservative in this regard. On the other hand, who the hell am I to decide what is normal? Every person has a different perception of what is normal. Abnormal is far more interesting

]]> By: Wayne van Niekerk https://www.mambaonline.com/2014/03/04/are-sex-venues-harming-the-gay-community/#comment-40215 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:17:04 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=39648#comment-40215 Personnally I thing steam baths etc are abnmormal and not for me. I am concervative in this regard. On the other hand, who the hell am I to decide what is normal. Every person has a different perception of what is normal. Anyway abonormal is far more interesting

]]> By: Ian Vella https://www.mambaonline.com/2014/03/04/are-sex-venues-harming-the-gay-community/#comment-40203 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:03:22 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=39648#comment-40203 James is totally wrong here: the issue of gay rights and lifestyle is a matter of choice and gay sex venues are part of gay culture for what is a small minority of gay men. It is small minded to believe that gays will be perceived as focused on only sex: there are ample examples out there that this is not so and that the majority of the LGB do not frequent sex haunts. It would be interesting what James thinks about drag, gay mardi gras, effeminate gays, lesbians who are distinctly masculine and other ‘obviously gay’ behaviour. It seems his time spent as a soldier has instilled in him a deep conservatism and that he would prefer gays to appear as the what is perceived to be heterosexual in all but what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms.

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