Homosexuality Is it Really a Choice? Since the 1800's, psychiatrists and psychologists have concluded that homosexuality is a mental disorder. They have believed it is brought about by misguided upbringing and their social environments. For instance, it was believed that if the child was lacking a male - figure in the home, he would most likely be gay. Or that child abuse can lead to lesbianism when the special needs of a little girl are denied, ignored, or exploited and the future womanhood of the child is in jeopardy. However, inconsistencies in the research subjects' abuse records ruled these theories out. And if this were the case, then why is homosexuality present in different cultures? Some believed homosexuality was caused by a difference in brain structure. In 1991, Simon LeVay published research stating that sexual orientation may be the result of differing brain structures. The hypothalamus, a region in the brain that governs sexual behavior, was the structure that LeVay was pinpointing as the structure at fault. In his studies of the hypothalamus, he found that in homosexual men, the hypothalamus was smaller than that of heterosexual men. Instead it was the size of the female hypothalamus, thus explaining their sexual tendencies. " It would begin to suggest why male homosexuality is present in most human populations, despite cultural constraints, " says Dennis Landis, a neurologist who studied brain structure at Case Western Reserve University. ( Williams, 1993) A woman by the name of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison criticized LeVay's theories and found several flaws in his experimental studies. First off, she looked at LeVay's sample population. It turned out that LeVay had autopsied 19 homosexual men, 16 men presumed to be heterosexual, and 6 women presumed to be heterosexual. So already we have one flaw, too small a sample size. Flaw number two was that LeVay simply presumed that the 16 males and 6 females were heterosexual.
A Homosexual Study of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. ... Literature Review ..3 Chapter 2: Theories concerning Homosexual Study .4 2.1. ... Does Clarissa have a homosexual desire? ... Chapter 2 Theories concerning Homosexual Study 2.1. ... Ross C. ...
C. ... C. ... This improper use of the term has become mainstream and continues to perpetuate ignorance as to what that term really is. What the term really means, that an individual likes the same sex, and is a homosexual, is lost, and the term develops a negative connotation, which then is transferred to gay people themselves. ... Most kids have the basic idea of what being homosexual or transgender is. ...
Alfred C. Kinsey argued in 1948, "It would encourage clearer thinking on these matters [of labeling homosexuals] if persons were not characterized as heterosexual or homosexual, but as individuals who have had certain amounts of heterosexual experience and homosexual experience. ... Being labeled a homosexual is society's way of determining what type of person you are and how you should be treated. ... The title on their brochure, "Taking a Stand: For Those Seeking Freedom from Homosexuality," wouldn't be implying that homosexuality is negative, would it? ... Even more disturbing ...
When looking at the issue of homosexual adoption, it is clear that it is becoming a growing issue in Canadian society. ... But when looking at how these children are brought up before being placed in a permanent home, they really had no mother or father figure to look up to, so who says that a homosexual couple can't offer the same characteristics to be adequate role models. ... Section 15 under the Canadian charter looks at the distinction of discrimination, and in the case of homosexual adoption the definition of "spouse" is what is preventing homosexual individuals from applying as...
Religion Religion can factor into attitudes and beliefs about contraception, permissible premarital sexual activities, pornography, and homosexuality. ... Denmark was the first Nordic country to adopt Christianity as its official religion under King Harald Bluetooth (c.910–c.985) in the tenth century (Lendorf,1994). ... Since Danes are not very religion, " keeping the law of chastity" is not really affecting the Danes' perspective of sex. ... Under sexual revolution and Gay library movement, Danes attitudes towards homosexuality and homosexual persons also have changed. ...
(Pearson 9) When reading an article I also found that when your dealing with a homosexual you don't want to use the word homosexual, often associated with homophobia (an irrational fear or hatred of homosexuals). ... Homosexual is a word that is often associated with homophobia. ... Part C. ... The one strength that really stuck out to me with gays was that they have a very close friendship. ... I really had no previous stereotypes to be challenged I've been friends with gay people since I got out of high school. ...
It is in fact because of his father that Tennessee Williams will become homosexual, and will talk about this subject in many of his plays. ... And since the writer really liked Tennessee State he started calling himself like this. ... Allan Grey, the man that Blanche married as a teenager represents Tennessee Williams himself because both are homosexual and both feel that homosexuality is not a good thing. ... And also Miss Edwina's children's weren't perfect because one of them was homosexual and the other one got a lobotomy because of being crazy. ... Nyren Dorothy, ...
But when the editors decided to make this novel into a movie they must have decided that Bridget's homosexual friend just wasn't as important to a movie as he was to a novel. ... Daniel attempts to shag Bridget on there date but Bridget immediately withdraws from the moment when Daniel gives her a really cheesy male line. ... It shows that just because Tom's homosexual and a man, doesn't men he can't be a best friend with a single woman. ... But in the film the audience is given the impression that she really has no friends. ... TV Guide gives the movie a C+ sayin...
The prevailing thought into today's society is to think that men who dance are automatically classified or stereotyped as homosexual. ... Some cultures have even had homosexual subcultures that have been brought out through rituals and other such ceremonies. ... It is a "fundraising program with an ongoing committed response from the American dance community to an urgent worldwide health crisis- (Cortez, Hernando; Roberts, Denise; Villarreal, Ariadne C. http://www.dradance.org). ... Moe never affiliated the thought of dance as a homosexual activity. ... According to Linda Hamilton earlier...
