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That's the preaching-to-the-converted version. When preaching to the unconverted, more pragmatic arguments tend to be brought forward
Unwanted pregnancy would have been as disastrous as disease in the econiomcally constrained socieites of our ancestors. .
Or interacial kisses? Depends where y'all come from, I figure. Old chap.
Short answer: conditioning.
I stand by this answer.
I used to find gay man-man kissing (or any form of intimate touching between males, really) very gross despite a very strong conscious understanding and notion that it was just as "right" for them as between a man and a woman.
Then, as I noticed and saw more of it, it got normal.
Now I don't find any of it the least bit gross or off-putting anymore, except in rare cases that evoke specific memories.
The just-so hindsight explanation that makes the most sense is that I believed-by-default everything I was told as a child about such things being "bad", "gross" and "disgusting" or even outright "evil" by my peers. However, that's only the slightly-more-likely out of many possible explanations, and I don't have real data.