WILD AND AN UNTAMED THING: New question at MarriageDebate:

Would same-sex marriage tame gay men?

Okay, so most iterations of that argument don’t put it quite so bluntly.

But one of the undercurrents of the gay marriage debate is the idea that marriage tames men, in general, and so gay marriage would help transform gay male culture, shifting it away from promiscuity and toward responsibility and sexual restraint.

But a lot of people within the gay community find this line of argument insulting, irrelevant, or wrong-headed from the start. And many opponents of SSM suggest that it’s women who tame men in marriage; or that the cultural influences might flow both ways, reducing the cultural belief that marriage requires sexual fidelity.

What’s your view?

(longer version of question here; email me if you want to join the debate!)