So what is it about homosexuality that makes it somehow worse than incest, adultery, divorce, and all the other bugaboos of traditional culture? What makes it so much more drastic that its depictions are completely taboo and practically unshowable on television, when we're given moderately graphic (at least by daytime standards) shots of Liberty, a 17-year old girl, putting a condom on Parker, her 15-year old cousin-by-adoption?
And what makes this homophobia so intrinsically American? On German daytime, the popular Seifenoper Verbotene Liebe, has much more graphic depictions of homosexual sex than anything we've even dreamt of seeing on ATWT. None of the other seven serials even has homosexual characters, whereas on British shows like EastEnders and Coronation Street they're par for the course.
I wish I had answers to the questions. To say that America is somehow more "conservative" or more "religious" than Europe is tautological but also a lame cop-out. But I struggle to come up with another one. Perhaps someone smarter than me has an answer they'd care to share?
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Religion definitely is the main problem causing US homophobia.
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