While "mental disorder" is a term and concept that arises out of medical practice/history, I don't think it has much to do with what individuals find arousing or repulsive. This is based on their socialization within an immediate, relatively small, group (expanding in size as communications technology increases). In the group in which virtually all people are socialized, the acceptable objects of sexual desire are adults of the opposite sex who are not in your family group.
I also think that 46% percent of men having sexual attraction to other men is nonsense. Maybe if by "sexual attraction" is meant "the idea occasional pops into one's head that Bob is pretty good-looking," which is not the same thing as "wanting to get all sweaty with Bob."
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> As for why certain desires are considered perverse, I still
> think you're
> barking up the wrong tree. Homosexuality obviously
> wasn't considered an
> illness according to the DSM classifications because of
> what the majority
> could or could not imagine feeling, if Kinsey's findings
> were accurate. The
> roots of such contemporary categories are surely to be
> found in doctrines of
> 'hygeine' arising from 18th and 19th Century medicine, the
> biologising of
> what had previously been seen as 'moral' states and their
> reinterpretation
> as infections; the development of race theory, the accounts
> of masculinity
> that arose within it, and concepts of race 'health'; and
> the gendered
> identities produced through colonial domination.
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