THE CRITICISM AND THE FLAG: OFFENSES OF OPINION, FREE SCIENCE FICTION OR INSULTS TO THE GAY COMMUNITY? WE USE COMMON SENSE IN THE CASE OF SILVANA DE MARI AND HER BOOK COLLECTED FROM AMAZON DISTRIBUTION

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[…] clinical experts consulted following the statements of Doctor Silvana De Mari, they replied that a certain number of women also practiced - sometimes also for socio-cultural reasons - anal sex, something found by several gynecologists and obstetricians, to the point that clinical statistical data are also possessed in this sense. However, it does not appear that the practice of anal sex by women is connected to the pathologies indicated by this specialist regarding homosexual relationships.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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Mesopotamian terracotta plaque depicting anal intercourse and dating back to the first second millennium BC. and preserved in the Archaeological Museum of the State of Israel

I appreciate Silvana De Mari, specialist in general surgery and endoscopy, of which I read the articles on The truth, even if I don't always agree with his analyzes. In fact, I believe that personal appreciation must never turn into a-critical veneration. When we esteem a person, it is a must to maintain clarity in the face of his positions, without losing the critical and analytical sense. This without disdaining the sacred fire of passion in a personality, positive element if wisely channeled, because excesses of passion can produce more problems than good.

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Some positions of the thought of Doctor Silvana De Mari which concern questions of sexual morality, as is the case with homosexuality and its physical expression, they need a surplus of prudence not only in the medical field but also in that multidisciplinarity that makes medicine dialogue with Catholic morality and pastoral. And I say this not so much in reference to the subjects directly concerned - people with homoaffective orientations and attitudes - but in reference to the sexual practices and lifestyles that homosexuality carries with it.

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Leaving with excessive passion in dealing with such delicate issues, as any young newspaper columnist would do, more than professionally risky, it is also ethically risky if the speaker is a doctor, therefore a man of science who, through observation and clinical studies, should provide documented data, also underlining the possible dark sides of the issue and the deadlocks. The latest storm that affected Silvana De Mari concerns her book Let's not get gagged, recently censored by Amazon in the distribution network online. The publishing house Faith&Culture with whom this author published her book, expressed solidarity with this stance through a press release from the publisher Giovanni Zenone:

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«On Friday we received an email from Amazon saying that our book was written by Silvana De Mari, Let's not get gagged, was removed from sale in both ebook and print as it violates Amazon's guidelines (essentially because it tells the truth about the medical consequences of sodomitic practice)» [cf.. WHO].

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This Publisher who today complains about censorship and martyrdom perhaps at the gates, should think of our Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, than in the public domain, national editorial and television is not all that unknown. As a priest and theologian he has addressed issues related to homosexuality and the LGBT world several times, I also speak to more live broadcasts with some well-known exponents of this world, using, where necessary, a lot of severity and decision in supporting the foundations and Catholic moral doctrine, certainly not his personal opinions. In the episode of Straight and Reverse of 8 October 2020 the Honorable Alessandro Zan contested regarding the bill on transomophobia. Days ago, in one of his articles published in our magazine on 17 March [cf.. WHO], referring to his friend Paolo Poli - to whom it is clear from the lines how fond he was -, using a language that is not spicy or foul but literary and theatrical, made various ironic references to "fags", term now listed - rightly - in that sequence of insults for which any gay can take legal action, asking for and obtaining the almost certain condemnation of those who have publicly insulted him as a natural person, or the entire gay community. But it is precisely here that something does not add up: Father Ariel has always criticized LGBT lobbies, is opposed to the media riots of homosexualism, to the Gay Pride that parade in Rome in front of the most ancient symbolic places of Christianity and has always been opposed to all attempts at forced imposition of the theory of gender. He also wrote all this in his books published by our Editions, which are not only distributed by Amazon, they are also printed in the two European printing works located in Poland and England. So we "depend" on the excellent Amazon service, to which we are affiliated as editions, not just for sale online, but also for printing and distribution. For this the Publisher of Faith&Culture who complains about censorship on the one hand is perhaps a martyrdom at the gates on the other, he should be wondering: why Father Ariel's books have never had any problems? Above all, because he has never been sued by LGBT associations, despite having even made his debut on a live television, the 31 October 2019, affirming in front of several cases of truly extreme homosexuality: “Tonight it seems to be at the little queer theater!». Clearly humorous hyperbolic expression with which even the exponents of the same LGBT world laughed. Because, exponents of the LGBT world, in this priest and theologian they see a "rival" who expresses the thought of Catholic doctrine and morals and carries forward the ideas based on them, while in the specialist doctor Silvana De Mari they see a person who has insulted the whole of their community? This would be the question to ask and to answer, whereas the criminal judge of the Court of Turin Melania Eugenia Cafiero clarifies in the reasoning of the sentence that the accused was sentenced for the following sentence written on her blog: "The LGBT movement wants to annihilate freedom of opinion and is spreading pedophilia more and more", while the other statements regarding the LGBT community are not punishable because "the right to express one's thoughts is a constitutionally guaranteed right […] Therefore, it is not the thought that is tried but its offensiveness to the juridical property protected in a criminal context ", that is, having associated pedophilia with an identifiable collective subject, the LGBT community.

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From the Publisher's press release Of Faith&Culture this author's book is presented as politically incorrect and dangerous, therefore deserving of being boycotted and withdrawn from the publishing market, because it states that homoaffective sexual practice from a medical point of view is highly harmful. What's wrong? What falsehoods are asserted? What scientific and medical data have been altered? What truths omitted? Specifically, the summary of the speech carried out by Doctor Silvana De Mari specialist in general surgery and endoscopy on the issue reported in her book is based on a simple observation: homoaffective relationships insist on an anatomically incompatible and risky sexual style in which the active partner exposes the passive to organic stress in the final part of the intestine. Indeed, trauma and a myriad of microlacerations would occur in the delicate walls of the rectum and anal canal due to the passage of the penis not anatomically compatible as it does in the vagina. This would lead to extremely painful conditions and the risk of facilitating the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases [cf.. WHO].

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There is apparently nothing wrong with that in the medical opinion of this specialist, but what I would like to point out is a generalization of the problem only to the homoaffective sexual sphere and to the only clinical-experiential practice that she has had the opportunity to encounter in her years of activity as a doctor. So if there is a mistake, it consists of an extreme generalization of the problem and a univocity of the experience relating to the cases treated only.

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I wish to remind the Readers that unnatural behaviors in sexual matters are not the exclusive prerogative of homosexuals but also of heterosexuals. When the Church speaks of sexual relations "in the human way" she is not only referring to a natural complementarity, physiological and anatomical but also functional and relational. All the alternative variants on the theme distort human sexuality which is unique and ordained by God for a specific purpose, leaving out the implications omo and heterodirect, of which a psychological component must also and above all be kept in mind. If for this reason this is the discourse we want to make, we must broaden the range of the discussion, not reduce it, if anything, by analyzing specific cases, as such and not as absolute. The good doctor-specialist should try to imagine how many priests in the exercise of their ministry are faced with women harassed by constant requests for sexual practices alternative from husbands, companions and boyfriends who could sometimes make the most unscrupulous porn actors blush. And all this in silence and general indifference, that justifies and includes everything in the normality of the duties of women towards men. For these poor girls of all ages, the only consolation and outlet in front of these proposals consists in fraternal and frank dialogue with the confessor or with the spiritual father, in order to find a solution to the anguish felt and the feeling of disorder aroused in the soul.

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However, we must not forget at the same time the existence of a case study that sees the fair sex as the applicant for alternative sexual services from their partners, who, if anything, are very impressed by these requests, because they do not consider sodomy at all as the achievement of an erotic practice but as a serious lack of respect towards the woman. And today we priests find ourselves having to deal with this too: women, especially young people, who ask for certain services and men who refuse them, often being very touched by certain requests.

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For these and other reasons I believe that the digressions on the use dell’ano multitasking are not subject to scientific investigation in the books of Doctor Silvana De Mari, nor by the censorship of Amazon and the Rainbow people. In fact, these are sexual practices that can concern and deepen in life situations much more common and serious, medically more critical and morally more compromising. In a society like ours that believes it has freed itself from sexual taboos, there is nothing more moralistic than a silence that is silent on the silence of so many poor people who live a daily martyrdom originating from a sexuality not yet understood as liberating and friend of ' man.

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For the few priests that like us three Fathers de The Island of Patmos they had the precious pleasure of attending the course at their own time audiendas in preparation for the exercise of the Sacrament of Reconciliation at the Apostolic Penitentiary, he will not be able to escape the example and recommendations of the moralist saint Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori. At the time of the holy bishop of Pagani, the last section of the intestine was postponed, in the widespread ignorance of the people rough, to the intercourse between man and animal and vice versa. But for us evolved men, ethero or LGBT, l’ano multitasking he studied in depth that philosophy of hedonistic pleasure that knows extremely "courageous" practices and to the limit that involve the introduction of objects of various kinds up to the hand, to the fist, to the foot in that extreme practice known as fisting. Why not address all these alternative sexual realities and their medical and moral implications in an all-encompassing scientific discourse.? Why focus only on the homosexual sphere and not also deal with the heterosexual one? In fact, we would like to know from this woman of science in which clinical cases she treated, among the homosexual population, more and clearly self-evident clinical evidence was observed regarding the pathological events described compared to those present among heterosexuals? Otherwise you risk falling into humor and resorting to hilarious explanations such as those given in an ironic and joking tone by a cultured and intelligent gay friend of us Fathers of The Island of Patmos, who once discussing the practice of anal sex began by saying: “Women are not allowed, never! For them it is against nature ".

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Not all specialists in internal medicine and gastroenterology and urology, including several Catholics, they agree with colleague Silvana De Mari. Affirm as a member of the medical profession that homosexuals, for their lifestyle, they represent a category exposed and more subject to certain diseases and even to certain cancers, including colorectal cancer, all without bringing any scientific evidence and least of all documented statistics, it's really risky and risky, other than censorship and gags.

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In this regard the clinical experts experts consulted during this procedure following the statements made by Doctor Silvana De Mari and the complaints that ensued, they replied that a certain number of women also practiced - sometimes also for socio-cultural reasons - anal sex, something found by several gynecologists and obstetricians, to the point that clinical statistical data are also possessed in this sense, even linked to this practice in relation to the different geographical regions of Italy. However, it does not appear that the practice of anal sex by women is linked to the pathologies indicated by this specialist, if anything, there may be cases of infection by both women and men in the absence of adequate prophylaxis and prevention. Therefore, in fact, what he claimed in his publication has not yet been demonstrated with sufficient scientific and statistical clarity. And these mistakes, in civil and criminal matters, inevitably they are paid, if the party affected is the gay lobby on the susceptibility of which we can not even discuss, rather, give it as an established fact, but at the same time we must avoid that the same is pointed out and hit without motivations and without scientific supports.

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I personally see the danger to make gay people even more ghettoized, a protected category for pathology, favoring that corporate gap that justifies a victimization that is the generator of reckless laws such as those that are proposed in parliament, I am obviously referring to the Zan-Scalfarotto bill which can seriously risk going to strike the crimes of opinion. Just as Father Ariel said to the Honorable Alessandro Zan at that program of Straight and Reverse of 8 October 2020, certainly not bringing his personal opinions but pointing out that the Italian bishops had raised many perplexities, knowing the consequences produced by similar laws passed in other countries of the world in application of which we have already had more bishops and priests condemned by the courts simply for having said that marriage is such only between a man and a woman and that a child can only be born from a father and a mother.

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To this speech add the concrete possibility of reading such related pathologies as a divine punishment for a sinful lifestyle. If masturbation once made adolescents go blind, today colon or rectal cancer would perhaps be the consequence of inadequate use of one's intestines.? We realize the extent of such utterances and the laughable consequences that would relegate us Catholics to irrecoverable bigots or sexophobics.?

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If it is necessary to do criticism and resistance then you have to start from a long and meticulous job, rigorous and with numerous tests on different disciplinary fields, as well as associations ProLife they did to dismantle the lawfulness of abortion. If this approach does not exist or exists in part - because it is I who say it -, the game is facilitated by LGBT organizations that will sue and attack all people with lawsuits such as Doctor Silvana De Mari, with the sole result of endorsing the accusations of homophobia which then in the criminal sphere will find acceptance in sentences that do not affect the faculty of expressing one's thought as a constitutional right but as an offensive intentionality underlying a thought conveyed. This is why I gave the example of Father Ariel and the line adopted by us Fathers of The Island of Patmos in our magazine of ecclesial theology and pastoral updating: our task as priests, theologians and pastors in the care of souls is to condemn sin in a decisive way, but always welcoming the sinner, especially the worst sinners. Then, if with the excuse of welcoming the sinner someone should instead claim the right to sin by passing evil into good, without hesitation we will always answer that sin is not a right and that it can never be accepted.

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Maybe someone will turn up their nose at these words, but today we must be shrewd and protected in all possible ways. Being martyrs for the Gospel and for the teaching of the Church is a commendable thing, being so for one's own imprudence or passion is a little less so. And I say this by saving all the good intentions that are not immediately knowable. Because of this, to me and my brothers, I am very sorry for Doctor Silvana De Mari, woman who lives on passion but also on undeniable stubbornness, which similarly to other Christian brothers can provoke, with all the good intentions of the case, damage to the weak, the simple and confused of our time.

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Laconi, 25 March 2021

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