Extensive research by organisations such as the American Psychological Association (APA) have identified homosexuality and a person's sexual orientation as being related to the balance of intra-uterine hormones in the uterus during pregnancy. This then corresponds to a specific level of hormones in the offspring's brain, determining the sexual orientation.
This explains why you cannot change your sexual orientation and shows us that you have no say in your sexuality.
Because DSM is for diagnosing mental diseases and homosexuality is not a mental disease.
It says that homosexuality is a healthy, acceptable orientation, just like being straight.
Since the 1970's it has been widely agreed-upon that homosexuality is not a psychological proglem.
A learned behavior in not instinctive but must be taught or acquired through learning.
Virtually all countries classified homosexuality as a mental illness at one point in their histories. Some still do.Virtually all countries classified homosexuality as a mental illness at one point in their histories. Some still do.
No, people are born homosexual. Nothing "causes" homosexuality.
Nobody chooses homosexuality. It's something that some people are born with.
Homosexuality is an odd subject. No one is 100% sure how someone comes to be homosexual, if it is a choice or something you are born with.
Homosexuality isn't something that needs to be treated. It is how some people are born not someto disease.There is no changing it.
Yes. Homosexuality has been around since the dawn of humanity. It's something that some people are born with and have always been born with.
Some moderate born-again Christians think homosexuality itself is not a sin and is akin to heterosexuality and governed by the same biblical rules about lust, love, loyalty in relationships. Other born-again Christians are fundamentalists who believe that homosexuality is a sin. I don't know what newborns think about homosexuality or if they can be Christian.
Amasa Learned was born in 1750.
Ebenezer Learned was born in 1728.
This is not something that is "started". People are born this way or not.
That it is something you are born into and something that you cannot change.
To be clear, homosexuality is not something that a person "commits." It is a natural part of a person. Some people are born gay and some are born straight. Homosexuality has been around since the dawn of humanity, so no one knows who the first gay person was.
Learned.