What happens when there are too many threads about homosexuality:

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Christian Forums ends up with banner ads like this :)

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*rolls around giggling*

ETA: This post looks really confusing! I posted the ad in the context of the page so you could see where I found it - sorry it looks so odd in an actual thread.
 

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Wow. Look at what I miss for using Firefox. Thanks for sharing, Cantata!

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Yeah, I usually miss the ads too, but I'm on a library computer and using IE - it's rather entertaining :p
 
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LOLOLOLOLOL
That might be the most amusing thing I've seen on CF yet... and it might send the phobic thread starters into spasms of fear and have them refusing to post on the topic... either that their reaction to the guy in the ad might send them off to "True Directions" (or the real life version of True Directions )
 
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The same thing happened on the British National Party's site (they are a racist political group for those of you who don't know). They were talking about Islam all the time, so much to their annoyance they started getting banners advertising Mosques and stuff. To curb this they asked everyone to type "Isl*m" in future to stop the banners.

Incidentally, I don't visit racist sites, I read this in a newspaper some months ago.
 
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Haha, that's awesome.

Now I know for sure that CF doesn't screen ads. I am often very put off by the fact that CF is so heavy-handed on what makes one a "good" Christian and censor so much, but still allow ads for Christian kitsch, partisan politics, get rich quick schemes, and the like.

This would have never gotten through in this place if someone were looking. I guess I feel slightly better knowing that no one chooses those other ads.
 
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Haha, that's awesome.

Now I know for sure that CF doesn't screen ads. I am often very put off by the fact that CF is so heavy-handed on what makes one a "good" Christian and censor so much, but still allow ads for Christian kitsch, partisan politics, get rich quick schemes, and the like.

This would have never gotten through in this place if someone were looking. I guess I feel slightly better knowing that no one chooses those other ads.

They're almost certainly content-based, and automatically generated. Which just goes to show!
 
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Yesterday, I considered making a thread just like this, after I saw an ad for 'chubbygays.com'.

I kid you not.

HAHAHA ^_^

I wish you had! That's even better than the one I saw!
 
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HAHAHA ^_^

I wish you had! That's even better than the one I saw!
I prefer yours, honestly.
The guy is nicer on the eyes.

...unless you want to see a snapshot from one of chubbygays.com's successful matchups: a fat twenty-something with acne-scars and a balding, middle-aged ginger dude.

*shudder*
 
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I prefer yours, honestly.
The guy is nicer on the eyes.

...unless you want to see a snapshot from one of chubbygays.com's successful matchups: a fat twenty-something with acne-scars and a balding, middle-aged ginger dude.

*shudder*

I take your point. :)

I'm back on Firefox now so I'm going to miss the joys of banner ads - do tell me if there are any more interesting ones :p
 
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Heee...I thought this thread would be something like "reading about sodomy so much gets me *seriously* hot."

But.. honestly I think you have a point there... really.. why would an individual start so many threads on the same topic if they weren't constantly looking for a specific type of stimulating conversation?
 
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But.. honestly I think you have a point there... really.. why would an individual start so many threads on the same topic if they weren't constantly looking for a specific type of stimulating conversation?

nodnod.

Yup. I'm not one to leap from "I think homosexuality is wrong" to "YOU MUST BE REPRESSED!" I don't even usually make the leap from hatred to repression.

But when somebody *regularly* writes long, exceedingly graphic descriptions of homosexual sex acts, and seems incapable of discussing gay people, say...buying vegetables to make salad, without seeing it as being sexual...

well, you really gotta wonder.

I know this isn't quite the place for it, but now I've started talking. I'm starting to see, more and more, the way gay people are hypersexualized, *not* due to a grain of truth in the stereotype, but because so many straight people simply can't think about gay people without imagining sex.

There was an article in my newspaper a few months ago that included an interview with several gay teenagers and young adults. Most of them said, of course, that they had some sense of being gay when they were young children, six or seven.

There was a letter to the editor later, asking why a six year old would even be *thinking* about sex, let alone what kind they prefer. They must have been abused, the writer thought, for them to be imagining sodomy and thinking about who they want to do it with.

Because, yeah, children's crushes are always blatantly sexual like that. Really, can our culture not even look at a *child* who turns out to be gay without imagining them in bed?

And those same people call *us* sick.
 
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