The underlying issues regarding the LGBT aren't actually from them, not really. The underlying issues for society go well beyond that group and go back to the Sexual Revolution.
Pretty much all of society's worst woes can trace back to that, and here's the thing that most people don't understand: the reason the Sexual Revolution has caused so many fundamental problems for our society is that it was founded and created on a LIE.
While people point to the mass use of birth control and the like, access and acceptability of birth control really wouldn't, by itself, have done the damage the Sexual Revolution has wrought. Birth control wasn't really what fomented Sexual Revolution, what drove it was the Kinsey Reports. You see, people prior to the Kinsey Reports generally believed as people here are noting: that sex was only a tertiary aspect of life, something married should primarily only do, and that most people only had one sexual partner through their entire lives. That was the societal expectation and experience for the vast majority of people in the West.
The Kinsey Reports claimed this was not the case, it pushed the idea that most people actually had cheated, premarital sex was common, and that male homosexuality was almost normative. Kinsey at the time claimed this was from extensive studies and interviews that he had done under strict confidentiality. These reports BLEW UP and were read by millions as well as injected directly into academia as The Truth, and that the prior understanding of sex, sexuality, and society was actually a fiction and a system that repressed people.
Here's the rub, Kinsey's report WAS actually based on extensive studies and interviews, but not of common Americans, but of CRIMINALS IN PRISON, especially CRIMINALS IN PRISON for sexual crimes. So basically Kinsey took studies and interviews of perverts and then claimed that EVERYONE was actually a pervert. This fact was covered up until the 1990s (the Kinsey reports came out in the early 1950s), but by that point the Sexual Revolution had already taken place.
So of course everything has had a bad effects. Kinsey pretty much explicitly was seeking to turn perversion into normalcy and succeeded.
Pretty much all of society's worst woes can trace back to that, and here's the thing that most people don't understand: the reason the Sexual Revolution has caused so many fundamental problems for our society is that it was founded and created on a LIE.
While people point to the mass use of birth control and the like, access and acceptability of birth control really wouldn't, by itself, have done the damage the Sexual Revolution has wrought. Birth control wasn't really what fomented Sexual Revolution, what drove it was the Kinsey Reports. You see, people prior to the Kinsey Reports generally believed as people here are noting: that sex was only a tertiary aspect of life, something married should primarily only do, and that most people only had one sexual partner through their entire lives. That was the societal expectation and experience for the vast majority of people in the West.
The Kinsey Reports claimed this was not the case, it pushed the idea that most people actually had cheated, premarital sex was common, and that male homosexuality was almost normative. Kinsey at the time claimed this was from extensive studies and interviews that he had done under strict confidentiality. These reports BLEW UP and were read by millions as well as injected directly into academia as The Truth, and that the prior understanding of sex, sexuality, and society was actually a fiction and a system that repressed people.
Here's the rub, Kinsey's report WAS actually based on extensive studies and interviews, but not of common Americans, but of CRIMINALS IN PRISON, especially CRIMINALS IN PRISON for sexual crimes. So basically Kinsey took studies and interviews of perverts and then claimed that EVERYONE was actually a pervert. This fact was covered up until the 1990s (the Kinsey reports came out in the early 1950s), but by that point the Sexual Revolution had already taken place.
So of course everything has had a bad effects. Kinsey pretty much explicitly was seeking to turn perversion into normalcy and succeeded.