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Consistent with our leaderships current state of understanding about the science involved in any issue, the AG's perspective is one that sees abberant sexual behavior as a kind of moral decay; in short, a sin.
Make no mistake, some sexual behaviors are so abhorrent to us that across all cultural boundaries they are reviled and despised...but then again, there are others for which our sexual instincts and highly socialized primate brains are able to integrate into normal functioning members of our society. But the troublesome behaviors as defined by law and recognized by their crossing boundaries that we have both as a result of instinct and cultural influences exist. Where does this behavior come from? Recent research indicates an organic source, such as brain damage, or chemical imbalance, possibly controlled by one genes and ones environment. If we continue to deal with abberant sexual behvavior as sin, relegating it to the dark recesses where we administer punitive torture, we'll be very slow to realize the truth of how this behavior arises and more importantly, how to begin the task of eliminating it.
