Is it a pathology or a new fashion in relationships?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Sexual orientation has always caused public outcry. Homosexuals are very often censured by society. Interestingly, psychiatrists in some countries generally exclude homosexuality from the category of pathologies. Is it really? What drives gays and lesbians?

At "blue" and "pink" origins…

The first scientists who investigated the issue of non-traditional sexual orientation came to the conclusion that this is a mental disorder that requires immediate treatment. At the same time, "treatment" was mostly coercive and despotic: castration or electroshock therapy.

Time passed, new research was carried out. The beginning of the 20th century was marked by the division of scientific views on the problem of homosexuality. New scientists appeared, for whom non-traditional orientation was not at all some kind of pathology. Among these scientists was the famouspsychologist Sigmund Freud, who also did not consider homosexual relationships a disease. According to Freud, every person is bisexual by nature. The final sexual orientation depends on his development in childhood.

Thanks to research in the 50s of the XX century, it turned out that homosexuality can in no way be a mental disorder! Moreover, the work of Alfred Kinsey proved that homosexuality is a variant of the norm! It became a real sensation! The spirit of the sexual revolution was in the air…

Gay as seen by modern scientists

Recent research in this area has proven that homosexuality is not a pathology. American psychiatrists have even excluded homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. Therefore, people of non-traditional orientation are not considered by them to be mentally unhe althy people, on the contrary, such behavior, according to American scientists, is an extreme expression of the norm. In addition, the problem of public perception and condemnation of these people is not medical, but social … More on this later.

The master is the master

Despite all of the above, the attitude towards gays and lesbians in many countries leaves much to be desired. For example, in Russia President Putin has recently signed a law banning propaganda of homosexuality among children. Other countries, on the contrary, see nothing wrong with homosexuality.

For example, inFrance, the current head of state Francois Hollande, on the contrary, allowed same-sex marriages to be registered. As they say, the master is the master!

Pride and Prejudice

By the way, not all gays and lesbians are embarrassed by public condemnation, and gay celebrities do not see anything wrong in this at all, openly declaring their inclinations to the whole world! For example, recently Hollywood movie actress Lindsay Lohan admitted that she is a lesbian… It also turned out that the most beautiful actress in Hollywood, Angelina Jolie, also had her “pink” stripes at a young age. Short-term homosexual relationships were announced by Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Naomi Campbell.