Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This does not mean necessarily that all sex not for procreation is wrong; contraception might be justified as a way of intending procreation rather than letting it happen. In either case procreation is considered to be part of a perfect or complete human life. Sex without procreation is imperfect, even though it's fun and permissible (it's never safe). But sex in which procreation is inconceivable is not permissible and is shameful. Where this line is drawn, and whether it includes heterosexual practices, is debatable. But at least the view that sex is for procreation accommodates our sense...
...Peninsulite Rob Wasinger, are less dangerous. The attacks that Mansfield and Wasinger have leveled against homosexuality are not sophisticated, and don't pretend to be efforts to make life easier for gay men and lesbians. Their comments, instead, are recycled mantras of hate and intolerance: Mansfield calls gay love "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," while Wasinger agrees and adds "vile and detestable" to the list...
...majority of American schoolchildren report themselves to be "very good" at math, but that doesn't mean that they can add or subtract. Mansfield does not mean that because homosexual acts are shameful, all homosexuals feel ashamed (quite the opposite); he does not mean that because homosexual love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," all homosexuals feel unhappy...
...psychological complementarity of male and female which make man and woman necessary counterparts one to the other. Quite apart from the biological urge to reproduce, the unique properties of the relation between man and woman are such that a life lived apart from that relation will be "imperfect and stunted." Human sexuality is not simply a means of physical gratification, nor simply a mental construct, but a compound of the physical and psychological close to the root of our humanity...
After Professor Harvey C. Mansfield called gay love "shameful" and inherently "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students' Association staged a protest, calling on the University to endorse homosexuality against moral views like Mansfield's. Though he defended Mansfield's right to free speech, BGLSA co-chair Bob E. Giannino '95 said "the University should publicly deplore his statements." Former BGLSA co-chair Rachel E. Cohen '94 also said she wanted the University officially to condemn Mansfield's views. All this was explicitly pretexted on the fact that Mansfield "was speaking not merely as a private...