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The situation with this toeva is even worse.
This toeva is a mental disease with a possible genetic component, and if that component were to be isolated, the disease could possibly be stamped out in a generation or two since toevaniks do not reproduce. We Jews did it with Tay Sachs and the world could do it with toeva if they only recognized it for what it is.
Instead of society recognizing toeva as a disease as it once did, thanks to this toeva pride and tolerance nonsense it is being celebrated! While there are some unusual disabled people who do embrace their disability as a sort of identity, these people are few and far between and most people who are suffering from any type of physical or mental limitation or disease are desperate to find a cure – except when it comes to the disability of toeva.
So, rather than science searching for cures for the toeva impulse the way it does for other mental illness, it finds ways to defend toeva as something natural. Just the physical mechanism of toeva relations is so obviously unnatural and abnormal that it boggles the mind as to how anyone could consider toeva a normal “lifestyle”. It is no more normal than schizophrenia, manic depression, or muscular dystrophy LA – it is a disease that needs to be cured. The action it leads to is a toeva that is in turn an issur skila. Reinstitution of skila is not an option nowadays (and there is no excuse to mistreat baalei toeva so long as they are not trying to encroach on our rights not to have to accept their lifestyle and actions as normal or to have to allow their behavior in our moisdos) – but if baalei toeva were seen as the ill people who they are it would lead to treatment that would wipe out the impulse and no cases of that impulse in future generations.