Police have busted four men for purchasing sex from teenage students.
One paid 60,000 won for the sex. The prostitutes included an 18-year-old high school kid and a 19-year-old university theology student.
Lee Yung-hyeock, an assistant professor of criminal justice studies at Korea National Police University, startlingly revealed — are you sitting down? — that gay people do [gasp] exist in Korea:
“The number of young male prostitutes is on the increase,” Lee Yung-hyeock, an assistant professor of criminal justice studies at Korea National Police University, told The Korea Times. “The disclosed number of those with sexual preferences toward the same-sex is the tip of iceberg. The majority of those are still hidden.”
Oh no, the hidden homosexual threat!
Lee stressed that pornography showing homosexual love could affect a teenager’s sexual identity. “Teenagers exposed to such a film constantly could face changes in their sexual preferences,” the psychologist said.
Oddly, I’ve watched a good deal of porn showing homosexual love (NSFW!), and not once have I felt gay. I must be one of the lucky ones, I guess.
He said psychological treatment and medicinal therapy should be used to normalize their abnormal sexual appetite.
Gee, doctor, which treatment do you prefer — electroshock or the good old icepick lobotomy?
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This article is wrong on so many levels. Still it’s refreshing to see Korean ignorami casting aspersions over a minority group other than white men for once.
I clicked on the homosexual love link figuring that The Marmot could be depended on to lead us to a video of two women, but then - while waiting for the page to load - a chill came over me.
“What if this is indeed two dudes???”
Fortunately it wasn’t and I still feel (relatively) clean.
Btw, watching too much gay porn may not make one become gay, but it seems to lead one to post the same information twice.
It seems to lead one to post the same information twice.
Just kidding.
I’m not gay, but I think it’s sort of cool how the prof talks about Iceberg’s tip. Again, I am not gay.
and @#1:
Who do you think this guy would blame for bringing homosexuality into Korea in the first place? It’s white men. See how they’re always getting the shaft?
“Oddly, I’ve watched a good deal of porn showing homosexual love (NSFW!), and not once have I felt gay. I must be one of the lucky ones, I guess.”
I guessed correctly as to the nature of this link.
Didn’t render me gay either.
“Gee, doctor, which treatment do you prefer — electroshock or the good old icepick lobotomy?”
Marmot, you forgot to mention fundamentalist prayer as another “cure” for homosexuality. (Probably somewhere between electroshock and the icepick lobotomy on the pain spectrun.)
We actually did a podcast on our site BombEnglish (폭탄영어) on just this very topic. We interviewed a Korean lesbian who is prominent ni the community and talked with her about this age-old impression in Korea (albeit one that is slowly fading) that there are no gays here, as well as other persistent stereotypes about gayness, sexuality, and minority/majority politics. It’s a great conversation and very worth listening to.
PLUG: We’re on our 15th show and going strong. We had an episode on the Korean beef issue for this week, but we got a bit…umm…excited about the topic and have to do it over. We’ve covered topics ranging from eating poshintang to a conversation with an American soldier, all the way to 2MB’s English education policy and why we hate “Misuda.”
We try to keep it edgy but light, and the reaction from Koreans so far has been quite positive, despite having an open comment policy. All our episodes have transcripts for non-native speakers, and are great chunks of “real English” to chew on for a week’s worth of study.
Enjoy!
“My mom says if you want to become a lesbian, you have to lick carpet”
It is learned. Cartman’s mom said so.
If watching gay porn makes you guy then what exactly was the chicken-lover watching? …and why don’t I feel attracted to white girls with clit-piercings and tattoos, yet?
How often do you see some drop dead gorgeous babe walk down the street, and not one, not even one Korean guy bats an eyelid. Either guys here have bad eyesight or there are a lot of closet gays.
@ JD (#5)
I think some gay white guys would enjoy getting the shaft.
not exposing young people to sexual abuse is one way to avoid creating more gays… of course, in a society where homosexuality “doesn’t exist”–and women are essentially chattel–what does one expect?
Funny. Dude I have emailed you at story@etc and you haven’t responded. I am busy with an article titled Big Blogger is Watching You. Do you have any updates on Dog Poop Girl type stories (where bloggers got their bosses fired or achieved something of note)in Korea or elsewhere recently. I’d really appreciate your feedback:
nickvanderleek@gmail.com
Electroshock treatment for homosexuality may sound like an “only-in-Korea” treatment, but it has also been used also in the United States, at least in the 1970s.
My parents found out my brother was gay when he was in high school in the 1970s and sent him to some quack doctor in Oklahoma City who used electroshock treatment on him. He was shown pictures of naked men and, if he got excited, he was zapped. Of course, the stupid treatment did not work.
Homosexuals are born the way they are, just as heterosexuals are. Common sense should tell us that shock therapy cannot cure homosexuality. For example, look at it from the other side of the coin. Do any heterosexuals out there really believe they could be shocked into becoming homosexuals? Even if I were strapped to a 10,000-volt electric chair, I cannot imagine being shocked into believing that someone of the same sex is sexually attractive.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com.....3c.jpg?v=0
I find this not very surprizing when I see the younger korean men out in public looking more feminine than the women.
Such videos could, however, turn you into what they call a “male-bodied lesbian.” (I caught that term on “The L-Word” while channel surfing one night.) Don’t say you weren’t warned!
Actually #11 I have wondered the same thing. I try my best to be discrete if I try to sneak a peak, and have always been somewhat in awe of how little many Korean men seem interested in “checkin it out”. But it’s not like they are checking the guys out either, so I presumed it was a cultural phenomonen
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian-identified
Well, you learn something new everyday.