Sexual Orientation

Why is this somewhat private matter of interest to people to the extent that it is always in the news and even my doctor asked me about mine the other day? Or rather why is it of any more interest than say, one’s religious orientation or philosophic orientation or food orientation? There may be a simple answer to this that I am overlooking, but I cannot see it at this time. I do not define myself by my sexual preferences. Do other people actually see this matter as being of over-riding concern to other matters in their lives?

These days it is hard to find a subject that is any longer considered ‘taboo’. In astrology, 1/12 of the zodiac is given over to matters that used to be considered ‘taboo’. Now we must call these matters by another name: ‘that of yourself which you give away to another person, or share with another person – willingly or not’ might be one way of expressing it.. life/death, sex, taxes, money, inheritance, wealth: all these areas have in common the fact that you have the opportunity to give up something that belongs to you.

But why has our world singled out the biological fact of sex over the other ways? Am I unusual in not seeing it as an important issue when I meet someone new? I’ve heard that the world is quite overpopulated. Perhaps the surge of interest in technological gadgets and the internet is serving to distance us a little from wild promiscuity? Maybe this is its function so far as Mother Nature is concerned. The Age of Aquarius is less to do with blending and bonding than was the Age of Pisces, and more to do with thinking in groups and about matters more impersonal.

I would prefer to be defined by my religious orientation if definition is needed, I think this is more important. Why would anyone care who anyone has sex with or not? What does it mean?