Homosexuality and psychology

that lesbians ' and gay men 's relationships with their sexual partners take time away from developing relationships with their children. Being homosexual is not an illness or disorder, and there is no “cure” for homosexuality. American Psychiatric Association stated that "homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability, or general social or vocational capabilities". There is no evidence that a person’s sexual orientation affects their psychological development,…

book was to be the largest documentation of sexuality at the time of his publication. In 1953 he released the Female version of this book. Both books were best sellers that sold more than 750,000 copies. In these works, Alfred concluded that homosexuality was a bigger population of America than originally thought. He stated that, “ A full 37% of men said they had had some form of homosexual experience at some point in their lives” (Metsel). This was a huge shock to the whole nation. It was said…

Research is the key to most of the questions we have. However, we as a society have come a long way in the field of research since the development of M-F Testing. The M-F Test was supposed to expose masculine and feminine traits so that parents and teachers could confirm that children were developing their gender identity correctly (90). They used personality traits, characteristics, attitudes and behaviors gave them a score of masculine or feminine and then proceeded to use this information…

Within this essay Derrick discusses the contest between two versions of the body in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." These versions inform and introduce the representation of homosexuality within the novel. Derrick analyses the production of homosexual personality and uses the novel as an important basis for a clearer understanding of the materialization of sexual identity that arose within the nineteenth and twentieth century. The Scarlet Letter drew a lot of attention to the subject…

Sexuality has been a way to express our sexual desires, our gender identity and ourselves as human beings that help establish a relationship between individuals, giving love, trust, respect and care towards one another. With the psychology of sexuality, we are able to convey our feelings, sexual interests and preferences, and show our sexual orientation and gender identity. Human sexuality spectrum identifies various labels that would indicate the sexual preference of an individual, though is…

Sexuality, prior to the writings of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers such as Freud and Foucault, wasn’t considered a field in the medical world. These men offered scientific answers to topics such as homosexuality and transexuality which were previously thought of as just sexual deviances. Due to the fact that the term sexuality was revolutionized in a medical sense certain historians would argue that, these philosophers and doctors “invented” sexuality by giving it medical backing.…

definitions to be declared as pseudoscience instead of experimental science. Throughout research, many articles fail to give a “mechanistic explanation” for why it is used. Many who support it don’t have actual reasoning to follow through, other than homosexuality doesn’t align with their beliefs. There is no actual correlation behind the different methods of therapy other than many homosexuals begin to feel hatred for themselves because of who they are. The hatred for themselves of what their…

professor of entomology and zoology and sexologist Alfred Charles Kinsey ever said in his survey that more than 46% men show that they ever have interest in the same sex and more than 37% have the same-sex behavior before. And the population of homosexuality occupies almost 2%-5%. Don’t you think we can forget about this group of people? The second point I want to focus on is about their contributions to our society. Many lesbians, gays and bisexual people are very talented in society. Those…

parents in the same way any other child would love his own parents: unconditionally, regardless if there are two mothers or two fathers. A societal idea (most likely influenced by the deeply rooted religious morals our country has adopted) says that homosexuality…

Article Critique #2: Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal? Kayla McCoy University of North Texas Is Homophobia Associated with Homosexual Arousal? Summary The authors of the article “Is Homophobia Associated with Homosexual Arousal?” Henry E. Adams, Lester W. Wright, Jr., and Bethany A. Lohr all collaborated efforts to test a theory involving homophobia. The article was published in 1996 to investigate how certain anxieties among heterosexuals who felt homosexual…