... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:
From the Philippines, a short film:
The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent 12 Replies latest jw friends
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fulltimestudent
But when you're old, it may be even more complex, whether we are str8 or gay, as this 36 minute Malaysian film attempt to demonstrate:
‘Hello, goodbye’ tells a story of two older strangers who find love and happiness in each other’s companionship. Sharing his distinctive style and skill in film art, Tan Seng Kiat’s newest short film aims to prove that like so many other things, love and happiness only improves with time.
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fulltimestudent
A different perspective, the problem of love in an arranged marriage:
A Young Malay Woman Is Trapped In A Marriage She Doesn’t Want
Child marriage is usually told as a loss of innocence or problems of economy, but we forgot to ask 'What about her desire? Her sexuality?'
A story about a high school girl in a rural area. She just reached an age where a boy has caught her attention and possibly heart when her family had to marry her off to an old man to help with the financial situation at home. All that could go wrong had gone wrong as she discovered how the old man is related to the boy she likes.
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fulltimestudent
Ummm! Different standards? Don't know what to say about this video.
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fulltimestudent
Another sort of love - in 4 minutes:
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fulltimestudent
Been waiting to post these for a while. Hope someone enjoys them.
No more for now
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fulltimestudent
Nah! Cant stop posting-
Like Toy Dolls, deals powerfully, with what is often the end product of the search for love ... baby dumping, as a problem in contemporary Malaysian society.
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DJS
Thanks FTS,
These accounts should make us all thankful for what we have, which is freedom of choice in such an important area of life. Not that some of us are going to do any better! I have a bad picker (some would say - including me - that it is because I am extremely shallow and make decisions based on my eyes and other body parts distanced from my brain!). Thanks again for sharing.
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fulltimestudent
Thnx for your thoughts, DJS.
Ummm! Not sure how to start this conversation. OK! we jump in. If I recall correctly you have described yourself as same sex attracted. (hope I have not confused you with someone else).
And, in your above post, you say: " I have a bad picker (some would say - including me - that it is because I am extremely shallow and make decisions based on my eyes and other body parts distanced from my brain!)."
That of course, is a universal problem, though some gay men (not sure about women) describe the gay sub-culture as behaving that way, i.e. concerned only with physical attraction.
But isn't it physical attraction the main start point for all relationships, regardless of whether the relationship exists between people of the same or opposite sexes?
And more, even though Christianity claims that their version of God ordered the universe on monogamy, a more realistic view is that we continue to be sexually interested in the sort of people that attract us. There is no universal tendency to monogamy - indeed we could say that the tendence is toward polyamory.
So I do not think that you're that unusual.
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fulltimestudent
I posted this film in another thread, quite a while back. I think it makes a point to advance the conversation: