Their sexual orientation does not dictate the kind of person they are. What they do to others does. Most gays and lesbians are not in the streets trying to tell other people that the religious groups are the bad people, they just want to be left alone. In times of war among countries the enemy has an agenda and the opposing side will harm who they must to protect their own, yet this is not war. Homosexuals are not hurting anyone by being homosexual, so why such hostility?
They also believed that a gay person is committing a sin and would burn in hell for having a sexual experience with a person of the same sex. (Rathus, Nevid & Fichner-Rathus, 2005) Until recently, some religions would perceive the male on male and female on female sexual interaction as inappropriate. Then, consider the cross cultural viewpoints and according to the text, it appears that there are some cultures that are more accepting to this. The New Guinea is one of the cultures that are more excepting to the view of homosexuality. In this culture the young
This is not even the beginning of a cure of homosexuality, as all persons are made and accepted equally in the image of god, and aborting a child who shows proof of being gay, is not allowing to be equally accepted. We must stop confusing the issues if moral responsibility with moral choice, and equally accept one another as a human, not based on a humans sexuality.
In the section titled, “The Reality of Homosexuality and its Lifestyles,” Ray states, “Many homosexuals engage in sexual practices that are virtually unknown among heterosexuals.” After checking the front cover to determine if this book was written in this century, I found it difficult to believe Ray felt he could effectively speak for the entire heterosexual world when he made this statement. During my initial enlistment processing, I was asked if I was homosexual or heterosexual. I was never asked if I
However, certain questions are quickly raised in my mind. For one, Nagel makes no room for masturbation, unfortunately not addressing it at all. I say unfortunately because masturbation is so commonly called into question in the discussion of what constitutes sexual perversion. Nagel’s hypothetical situation is far too vague to truly establish an argument on. I wonder if there is any measure for how saturated with sexual desire one is?
He goes on to explain that human beings use words to create a sort of perception of the world on which alter the social institutions around them. Katz writes “ The creation of “heterosexuality” and “homosexuality” is that those specific, historical phenomena did not exist, and could not have existed as such”. The distribution of these words helped produce the social existence of our sexual relations today. All of this information will be used to to expand off the normative/ standard relationship that our society lives off of. It will be used as a comparison to the transgendered
Assignment: Historical and Scientific Perspective on Homosexuality PSY/265 Historical and Scientific Perspective on Homosexuality I believe that the historical and scientific perspectives in the text have shaped the way that gay individuals may perceive themselves in that they give these particular individuals different views of other people and the way that they look at gay people and their chosen lifestyle. The cross-cultural perspective is one perspective that gives gay individuals the perspectives from different cultures and the way that they view and think of the gay sexual orientation. While some cultures believe that gay relationships between two individuals of the same sex is wrong, some other cultures believe that it
The research also extends the concept of the “double closet” in which the participants actually felt more conformable with their identity as homosexual males versus wealthy males (Hokemeyer, 2009). It would be interesting to find out if Low-SES homosexual males also identify more with being homosexual or being poor. Does being homosexual keep them from achieving all of their goals emotionally, personally and professionally? As is well known, problem of violence against homosexuals is so pervasive that they were a specifically identified group when the United States Congress ordered
Tribal villagers used the shelter long before white settlers and gold miners settled in the Sierra foothills. The pictographs were centuries old. The pictographs depected animals, reptiles and man. All of the paintings were recognizable as creatures that would have inhabited the Sierras 500 to 1,000 years ago, when the pictographs are believed to have been created. Three of the animals, though, can only be described in today’s dictionary as an adult male, female and child Bigfoot.
III (2009), Philosophy Hons., Patna Women's College, Patna University, Patna **Head, Department of Philosophy, Patna Women's College, Patna University, Patna The highly debatable issue of homosexual relationship comes under the purview of applied ethics and demands moral deliberations in order to discuss the legitimacy of their action. Homosexual acts are against our societal norms, traditional beliefs and religious principles but then they are voluntary acts based on freedom of choice and determinism and thus homosexuality cannot be debarred from being practised. Homosexuality was once considered a legal offence, but is now, decriminalized by majority of the developed countries. Homosexuals are even struggling for its legalization in co operation with various government and non- government organizations. Hence, in such a situation there is a call for a detailed discussion on the issue of homosexual relationship, especially its ethicality and its influence on the society.