Historical and Scientific Perspectives on Homosexuality PSY/265 Some people often wonder and some may even ask why people choose this lifestyle. People may say that he or she is sick, confused, or going through a phase. Some people even believe that there may be a cure to fix these feelings that the person may be having. What is important is to see them for whom they really are on the inside, and that they have a right to feel and love whomever they feel is right. In order to understand homosexuality, you must understand full what it is.
Homosexuality is a result of the person’s environment and how they are brought up as a child. Unfortunately some children are more damaged than others growing up from a result of their parents’ lack of parenting skills or lack of nurture. Alternatively, a child may grow up in a perfectly “normal” household but still turn out to be homosexual with no trace of homosexuality in that family tree. Either environment whether good or bad, has shaped that person to turn out a certain way. People have choices and you are who you are by the choices you make and the experiences you have in life.
The results of the survey showed that the overwhelming majority of abusers and victims who were involved in verbal and controlling form of domestic violence were homosexual partners. These forms of control, although common in heterosexual battering cases, have much different technique in same sex cases. One example of controlling aggression includes threatening to exploit, or “out” their partner’s sexuality, if they are still in the closet. If the victim is still in the closet, and afraid to admit their sexuality to their family or the community, this becomes a powerful tool for the aggressor, because if the victim cannot reach out to their family, or friend, due to the fear of coming out, the victim would also never report their abuser to the police for the same reasons. The fear of an aggressor “outing” their victim varies between lesbian and gay couples (Messinger, 2011, p.2233).
The problem would have never occurred if Kinsey was educated on sex as a teenager. This also impacted his work because couples would ask him for advice and he wasn’t sure of his answers. He felt like he had to do more research in order to give advice. Alfred’s theory, “everyone is different and yet everyone wants and tries to be the same,” I think means people are all different sexually. For example, some people can have orgasms quickly, as others take longer.
Many teenagers are going to be sexually active regardless, and this model simply doesn’t accommodate to this fact or even acknowledge it. Students of today need a sexual education model that will provide them with the tools they need to be safe and healthy, and abstinence-only just isn’t it. Students are missing out on valuable education that could possibly prevent an unwanted pregnancy or deadly STD. Clearly, something needs to be changed about
In so many ways, teenage sex only has negative results including: pregnancy, sexual transmitted diseases, depression, and many others. Teenagers have a really hard time seeing the big picture in this world and think they know much more than they really do. Keeping teenagers from having sex is a hard task but is really important to keep our teenagers safe and free of negative impact.
The constant exposure of a sexually oriented society has caused many teens to become parents at an early age. The results of this have caused a major breakdown in one of the strongest structural units, which is the family. Families all over the United States are confronted with issues of teen pregnancy and adolescent sexuality. It is unfortunate that the television and music industries provide avenues for the exploitation of sexually contented materials. What society intended as vehicles for entertainment and bringing families together, has proven to be harmful to the minds of adolescents.
Depression and suicide goes back to preteens/children not being emotionally or physiologically mature enough to have sex. Since many young people will have sex to show the other partner that they “love” them, when in reality it isn't love and often leaves one of the two heartbroken which may lead to depression. Meeker also discuses obscene rap lyrics, lurid reports of teen orgies and the high school "craze" for oral sex and blames: post-60s permissiveness, the misguided association of condoms with safety and sexualized media imagery and gives examples of, the popular magazine Cosmopolitan and television series Ally McBeal. In the end her
Do African-American teenagers believe in the consequences of sex? Or perhaps the home environment will most influence the possibility of negative sexual encounters? While studies suggest that many factors contribute to the increasing rates of unplanned pregnancy in African-American teenage females, the three most prevalent causes are the unwillingness of teenage African-American youth to use what they know about sexual activity, not believing in the personal negative consequences of sexual activity, and the influence of the home environment. African-American teenagers have an unwillingness to use what they know about sexual activity. Teenagers, especially the African-American teenagers, have been taught about sex.
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.