Confessions and Pleas of a Straight Rights Activist

by Sigma

Let me start by telling you that from the first time I can recall as a child having felt attracted to someone I have been straight. I became aware of this as a little boy when I had a dream about being in love with a little girl who lived in my neighborhood and soon after (within 2 years) I had my first crush on a girl who was 14 when I was 9.

I know that a lot of people say that straightness is something that people have to be tricked into being by the workings of some early sexual perversion in their life, but let me assure you that in my case this is totally untrue. And it's not like I have never had sexual relations with a man either - I have tried men several times - they simply lack something that women usually have that I need in my life.

There is nothing wrong with straight people. We are not psychologically malfunctioning. Perhaps there is a gene that decided that I would be a straight man when I was conceived in my lesbian mothers' womb; If this is the case it will soon become easy for us to solve the 'straight problem' in society by way of genetic engineering. It's certainly true that our society has no issues with using science to alter human nature. Let us not forget that it was once a mandatory government program that men had to have sex with women until they got them pregnant (or in unusual circumstances until either the man or woman was determined to be sterile).

Which leads me to a brief discourse on the subject of AIDS. If straights were responsible for AIDS then why didn't it occur in the past when men and women had to have sex at some point with each other (before artificial insemination became the norm)? Wherever HIV came from it wasn't a result of heterosexual mating. I know it's controversial still to purport that men and women were meant to have sex but most of the foremost evolutionary scientists now agree on this premise and even speculate that our history books may be lying to us. Yes, science that we hold so precious is even now daring to threaten our deepest held beliefs about family life and speculating that in the earliest times most people were actually straight.

So even if the 'straight problem' is going to be solved by way of science we remaining straights can live with the clear conscience that in the beginning of civilization men and women living together was more the norm than men living with men and women living with women.

When I was in my teenaged years I found it very hypocritical of our society to be so accepting of bisexuality. When I grew a little older other straights convinced me of the reason for the high toleration of bisexuality in society and the political incorrectness of people giving negative attention to bisexuality. They said this was due to the fact that children conceived as a result of bisexual's sexual recklessness resulted in less expense for the government and more child stock for the male gay populous. They even went so far as to tell me - in sorted whispers - about gay men encouraging their lover's to go have sex with a bisexual or straight women. Some men, I was told, would sometimes do this so that they can later claim the child as theirs to raise. The government usually sides with the men in these cases since men are seen as being at a disadvantage in society by not being able to carry children but by only being able to impregnate. Though these things are hardly ever spoken of in polite company let me assure you that it happens more than you would think.

I know that the idea of heterosexual sex is disgusting to most of my audience so I will do my best for the remainder of this paper to refrain from dwelling on the details of the heterosexual act. However, I would like to take just a moment before I go more deeply into my dialogue to reassure some of my readers about the sanitation of the act. Keep in mind also that this is even now an act that is still considered in most countries around the world to be illegal and considered by most religions to only be permissible when ordained by a religious figure to bring about a child. The straight form of sex is most commonly practiced by a man inserting his penis into a females vagina until he (and hopefully she) reaches climax. There are some minor variations on this theme practiced among us including the 'straight 69' position and what is considered less absurd among most people including regular connilingus and fellatio, but mostly straights practice the first mentioned act; at least it's our norm.

This act is not unsanitary or absurd. Pleasure is usually granted to both parties through it without pain being incurred by either party (with the notable exception of the first time for the female). Also, the 'mess' that results from this act is usually cleaned up quickly and thoroughly by straights. Anything that you've heard of to the contrary of this is either the result of heterophobia or most likely results from some uniquely perverted couple who is giving a bad name to the entire straight community.

Now that we've glossed over the technicalities of the actual heterosexual act I'd like to get into the real matter at hand here and that is our political agenda. Straights are not out to destroy the sanctity of the homosexual way of family life in any way. We are not planning a conspiracy. We do not hate gays. And there is no statistical evidence to support the claim that straights on average earn more money than gays or are some way more successful in 'the system' than gays. I know straights who work for little more than minimum wage all over the place, not all of them teenagers either.

Furthermore straight parents do not bring their children up with straight propaganda. Straight parents are obviously going to be affectionate with each other in front of their children sometimes but that does not mean that straight parents are intentionally teaching their children to be straight. In fact most straight parents try to explain to their children the laws of reproduction and what the society norms are and leave their children to figure out on their own what sex they are attracted to more. Straight parents, because of their experiences, are exceptionally accepting of their gay children in general. And if a child from a straight couple happens to find it's-self being attracted to the opposite sex then a straight parent will obviously share it's experience with the child and do whatever it can to help that child down the bumpy road that they have already traveled. However, once again let me clarify: this isn't to say that we indoctrinate our children to follow our less traveled road of sexuality.

And let me again give scientific credence to our way of life: Some scientists are starting to make the controversial claim that children raised by BOTH of their biological parents are more likely to be happy and healthy children (discriminatory effect of society aside). This is due to the fact that their parents are able to figure out many innate things about the resulting child's physiology such as genetic defects and strengths (including allergies, diseases, talents, etc) faster than their gay parent counterparts.

For all of these reasons and because I have reasoned some of this out on my own since I was a teenager do I demand state mandated support of heterosexual rights and marriages. I first got involved in the movement for straight rights when I was only 14 years of age. A straight pride march was taking place in my hometown of Chicago and I decided that I would lie to my moms and tell them that I was going over to friend of mine's house. My moms were very fond of discussing politics and the latest intellectual banter with Jessica's dads and so our families were together often and telling my moms that I would be over at Jesse's house was very natural to them. At that times if my moms knew that Jesse and I were having sex with each other and were in fact that afternoon going together to a straight pride march they would have been completely mortified. But that was then...our families have since learned about me and Jesse due to her unfortunate early pregnancy when she was 16 and they have all grown to be very loving and accepting of our sexual preference.

But I get ahead of myself. That day Jesse and I went to our first straight pride march and discovered something amazing: There we're many more straights than either of us had ever imagined. Straights of all ages and races (though many that showed up for the parade were in their youth) were represented that day; straights enough to fill several blocks of State Street. And what was even more inspiring was all the gay supporters that were along by our sides showing their support for us.

After that Jesse and I started in a very clandestine way to get involved. The topic of 'coming out of the closet' to our parents came up once back then and was quickly dropped. It was one thing to fight society -quiet a different thing to fight our mothers and fathers.

Jesse and I did, however, discuss how we felt that a possible reason for us being straight was out love for our parents. Jesse deeply loved both Fred and Alan and I deeply loved my mothers Martha and Claire. Though at this point I'm a much stronger supporter of the genetic theory then the psychological theory of straightness this Freudian view at the time seemed very exciting. You see at such an early age as a straight person even you think that there is something wrong with you for being straight and that it's something that you need to fix. And that is why in my case I had sex with several other boys...I was trying to fix myself and to make myself normal like everyone else. Jesse was always there to support this and I supported this myself when she tried having sex with some of her female friends. But in the end both of us loved each other more than we could love the same sex and just found a deeper and truer connection in each other's company that went deeper than sex. I know for some of you reading this that idea is repugnant but I swear to you that it is the truth. It's my love for Jesse that makes me so determined in my campaigning for straight equal rights.

Now I want to mention for a moment, in all fairness, that there are a couple of scientific arguments that have some validity against the idea of straight marriage. These are the idea of overpopulation and unwanted pregnancy. These ideas are highly speculatory and should not be taken for granted. In the case of unwanted pregnancy the idea is that is straight marriage were allowed to be legal and straightness in the population were to grow to a large enough extent that at some point women would get pregnant very often when they in fact did not want to. Though this phenomenon has already occurred in some cases with straights and has effected my life personally, I don't think that in such a world it would be any greater a threat than it is now. Furthermore I don't believe that opening the world up to straight marriage will have any impact on the straight to gay ratio in the population whatsoever since straightness is probably hereditary anyway.

As for overpopulation: The concern is that in a world without the need to ask the government's permission for a child the citizens would grow to eventually get rid of any and all government control over birth and population and that there would come a time where people would not have to undergo a vigorous screening process in order to become a parent. The consequences, according to this argument, are dour. Morality in society would all but totally erode away if any two straight horny people went around having unprotected sex eventually leading to unwanted pregnancies and overpopulation. Grown men would no longer be an aspect of family and unhappy irresponsible women would have to do all the child rearing by themselves. In such a world a concept speculated upon known as 'voluntary abortion' might become a hot issue in ethics whose dilemmatic implications would be staggering and might never get properly resolved. This obviously is an issue that deserves a scientific paper of inquiry unto it's-self and I am not qualified to write such a speculatorary work of science myself. Suffice it to say that the idea of overpopulation is just a little bit too difficult for us to imagine at this point in time and thus probably isn't owing to any speculation, at least not yet anyway.

Jesse and I explored our sexuality with each other's blessing and then came back to each other in the end. This deep connection we felt for each other unfortunately culminated in her teenaged pregnancy and our consequent forced 'coming out' to our parents -- who were shocked at first and then became very accepting of us over time (though it was harder on Jesse's father's then on my mothers, I must say). Jesse and I were not allowed to keep the baby since we were both underage. Our child was given to the government who allocated it to a very nice and decent young male couple whom we've since met and befriended. I feel very comfortable with the idea of these decent people raising my child; they are both very open-minded toward straight and have no problem with letting Jesse and I visit our biological child Samantha.

Samantha is now 12 years old and knows the whole story of her parents and her birth. So far she hasn't shown any sexual tendencies and all 4 of her parents are curious to see if she will favor men or women, Jesse believes that she will be bisexual. Jesse and I have been living together since we moved out of our parent's homes at 18 and we have another child who is 6 named Jonathan. Jonathan knows his sister Samantha and so far has a difficult time understanding why she lives with another family. Such are the pains that society imposes on children. Samantha understands the situation better and loves her little brother very much.

After Jesse gave birth to Sam we became more vehement in our fight for straight rights as a result of the existing social order having taken our child away from us in some way (though we are lucky enough concerning her adopted parents and we thank them for their understanding immensely). Jesse and I have rose in the ranks in the straight rights movement to the point where we are now paid for our work and are lobbyists in Washington for our cause. Our story has been told in several videos and booklets on straight rights and in our work organizing straight rights rallies, meetings, and marches; we have come into contact with several famous straights including Elton Jon, David Bowy, and Mick Jager.

I'm writing this paper now that these issues have become such a hot political topic and the current election somewhat hinges on the issue of straight marriage. We straights believe that the founding fathers (many of whom were speculated to secretly to have had straight relations including, most notably, Tomas Jefferson) left this topic alone in the constitution for good reason. The founding fathers, we believe, supported straight rights in their own minds but could not openly admit this in those times. The founding fathers, we believe, being the visionaries that they were understood that equal straight rights could make a stronger America (we believe that because many of the founding fathers were highly scientific men they probably speculated upon some of the arguments herein presented for straight rights). We believe that it is in America's greatest interest to leave wording concerning marriage out of the constitution and that making it legal for straights to marry one another will in no way detract from the 'morality and sanctity of marriage'.