What is Normal?

It takes a mere intake of 10mg of vitamin C to avoid Scurvy. That is 1/10th of a single water droplet daily or one solitary drop every ten days, and makes the difference between illness leading to death or a healthy life. The Inuit, with a diet almost devoid of plants, get enough Vitamin C from raw fish, the organs of marine mammals and muktuk, the skin of the beluga whale. We are, if nothing else, made up of combinations atoms & molecules and how these act and interact gives who we are - and each and every one of us are different. The point being that with 46 chromosomes containing 3 billion base pairs of nucleotides in the DNA of each cell of our bodies, which direct the interactions, even the tiniest variance can cause massively different outcomes. Not only male or female, black or white, etc, but within, minute levels, mix and action of sex hormones such as androgen, testosterone, oxytocin, vasopressin, estrogen & progesterone which are, after all, just compound molecules can significantly affect us. Is it any wonder then that human sexuality is so diverse?

Since Alfred Kinsey (1940 / 50's) to the present time Sex Researchers have tried to establish 'What is Normal' in regard to sexuality, only to fail because Sex is not binary and never has been -  Human Sexuality is a very large Spectrum .......

There are exceptionally few who are all simply one thing or another. Change the chromosomes or levels of our sex hormones, their interconnections and interactions, and the nerve & electric impulses they create, even if ever so slightly, (and bear in mind we are all different) and create a whole new 'rainbow' for every category be it Heterosexual, Homosexual, Transexual, Intersex, Transgender, Bi-Sexual, Pansexual, .... et al ... all with overlapping shades of 'colour', not only within categories but also across them. We all have a little bit of everything in our makeup, some may be at the beginning of the spectrum, some in the middle and some at the end. It just depends how much of one trait there is compared to others which determines our sexuality. Indeed there is so much overlapping diversity that even nature itself gets confused when it puts the wrong gender in the wrong body or gives up altogether and and puts both in the same body.

Society, that is to say certain leaders throughout history, have imposed 'Norms' within cultures with which we are all supposed to comply.  Easy for Asexuals and those with lowish libidos but for those born with traits outside the prescribed 'Norm' it can be a nightmare existence unless they find a friendly and supportive niche within which to fit. Just as a flower does not choose its colour so too we are not responsible for what we are.

In regard to consensual adult human sexuality, the only condition which is not normal is intolerance, condemnation & censorship.

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