Thanks to you...

"Understanding and Healing Homosexuality, someone you know needs this book" 2 of the 3 companies selling this book on their websites and and shelves have uncatalogued it and published public apologies on their Facebook  pages and twitter  feeds.

Both companies have stated that they are simple exercising their right to sell anything that is legally qualified as "book", published and recognized as such, not exactly sharing the views or opinions expressed by the author; nevertheless, the book is no longer available on either shop anywhere in Spain or online.

Amazon Spain however has not uncatalogued it yet, despite the fact that over 33000 petitions have been signed over the last 24 hours, showing that when people voice their discontent and act together, change is possible. On behalf of  Fran Ferri -the person who started promoting this initiative-, myself and all of those who shared the link so people could become aware and act on it, many thanks.

"Comprender y Sanar la homosexualidad, alguien que tu conoces necesita este libro" 2 de las 3 compañias, vendiendo y/o promoviendo el libro en España, ya sea en sus tiendas online ó en mostradores, han descatalogado el citado libro y publicado disculpas publicas en sus páginas de Facebook  & twitter .

Ambas compañias han mencionado en dichos comunicados, a modo de disculpa, que sólo ejercitan su derecho a vender y promover cualiquier libro catalogado legalmente como tal, compartan ó no, las opiniones expresadas por el autor en el mismo; sin embargo, el hecho está en que dicho libro a sido retirado rápidamente por ambas compañias y ya no está disponible en ningún sitio en España o en sus tiendas online.


Amazon España aún no a descatalogado el libro, y sigue disponible -a pesar del hecho de que se han recogido alrededor de 33 mil firmas en menos de 24 horas-, demonstrando una vez más de que el cambio es posible, cuando la gente se organiza y muestra su descontento de forma pública. En nombre de Fran Ferri -promotor de esta iniciativa- y de todos aquellos que nos involucramos directamente para hacer conocer este hecho, muchas gracias.


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Homosexuality is a disease...

This is according to Richard Cohen, now I see how he'd have "some" market in the USA and some american countries -I am American, on the exile but American, so I am not being mean just a realist- where Christians and the extreme right have a lot of weight and market to pull from and make yourself a career out of "counseling", but in European Countries, specially one like Spain where equality has been achieved ages ago and homosexuality normalized, having 3 main stores selling one of his books is simple unacceptable, since in my opinion sends the wrong message.

I encourage you all, in Spain or not to sign the petition to get this book off the shelves in Spain -It's added on the left side of this article for your convenience. People can make a change, and telling new generations that homosexuality is a disease that can be cured through counselling, it's just wrong.

Según Richard Cohen, la homosexualidad puede ser curada, veo como esto puede de tener algo de mercado y seguidores en Estados Unidos -lo siento pero es así, la derecha y los extremistas son muchos más que en Europa-, y hacer que el tenga un base suficiente como para que esta persona haga carrera "aconsejando" a otros, pero en España, donde la homosexualidad goza de igualdad de derechos, el hecho de que tres grandes superficies comercialicen el libro es simplemente inadmisible.


Exhorto a todos los lectores, Españoles o no, a firmar la petición para la retirada de este libro en España -El widget está añadido a la derecha del artículo para vuestra conveniencia. El cambio es posible, muchas sociedades así lo han demostrado, y decirles a estas alturas a las nuevas generaciones que la homosexualidad es una enfermedad que puede ser curada, está muy mal.


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STROKE MY... Ego

The Internet and social platforms such as second life, give one the opportunity to explore many things, but second life has that added option of building yourself an alter ego, a virtual persona with its own image, feelings, agenda and background story; it all depends on how invested you get on it.

We build our avatars to be the perfect image of that person we wish to be, we cannot be or we wish we will get to be or we used to be -this applies to SL twinks- and we tweak bits and pieces as we go along our second lives; something that also gets built up however is our ego, which I have come to learn for some people, needs to be stroked and pampered properly to get the desire effect, as if it were a penis.

Let's get a few things straight and get the message out there to the millions of second lifers, or social platform users with blogs, profiles, groups or whatever you want to call them. Keep it real, keep it simple, do things because you want to do them and have something to share with people, not to build up your sense of self importance or compensate for a somewhat socially challenged real life.

I joined second life and do most social networks for a simple reason, as of right now; I feel I have something to share, it gives me the chance to explore my talents and dabble on areas that would be impossible for me in real life or would take tremendous effort or a huge financial investment to get me somewhat started or to the point I am now in second life. If you need your ego stroked through appraisal or approval, you need therapy not the internet, so maybe getting a REAL social life would help you work on your issues.

I'll stick to having the one thing that needs stroking, stroked and I'll do that in the privacy of my bedroom with the hot guy I like.

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