RookParliament said:
Well more and more evidence is mounting that homosexuality is not a personal choice, but is in fact biological in origin. The classes themselves didn't really mention homosexualty too much, but in the abnormal psychology sections we were taught that pedophiles are considered by the psychological community as sociopaths. Homosexuals feel attraction to people of their own gender who are of age. Pedophiles will molest children, male or female depending on their preference, who have often not even reached puberty. Sociopaths have a goal, in this case fucking children, and they will do what is neccesary to achieve it. They want the sweet prepubescent ass, and they know as a priest they will have a position of trust. Note the part about priest was not taught to me, I have just often thought about it. So anybody else have thoughts on that particular theory?
And what was that about common sense?
This is already for another thread, but technically, part of the misunderstanding about homosexuality is based on one misunderstanding. Homosexuals can be quite different.
Some people are born with certain and in that case it is true, it is biological origin, and I think that it is absolutely valid for those persons to change their gender, so they can have body that goes along with their inner sex.
Other large portions of homosexuals are people with psychological problems about their identity. Every human being goes thru homosexual phase thru his childhood, and when person for different reason fails to build his identity and learn his way with other sex, he/she ends like a typical case for a psychotherapy, may it become homosexual or not. Actually a lot of people that live life of hetero sexual are psychologically close to homosexual. Typical married man that has never become really psychologically intimate with his wife, and finds most of pleasure by having a beer with his buddies. He has never bridged the gap between sexes and never will.
Finally there are homosexuals that are sociopaths because they are finding that sex with same gender is turning them on in a same way as some pedophile is turned on by a child, and they can hardly make lasting relationship with other person that is of same gender.
Part of the confusion comes from the society. All homosexuals are constantly put to one basket, before because of hatred and suppression towards them, now because of idea of liberty and freedom of self-expression, without really understanding the matter.
Don't get this like I am bashing homosexuals, because I'm not, actually I am finding people that are transsexual and want to change their gender as very brave and true to themselves. It is not easy be in their skin.
But it is from a psychological viewpoint hard for me to accept homosexuality as a personal choice, because most of the homosexual would become hetero after psychotherapy and in most cases there is some kind of trauma, neurosis, whatever connected with their sexual choice.