Psychosocial aspects of homosexuality.

Psychosocial aspects of homosexuality.

This paper and that which follows by M 7 MacCulloch were prepared for a London Medical Group symposium entitled 'Homosexuality: congenital or acquired?' held at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in October 1979. DrCrown deals with the psychological and socialfactors of homosexuality. While he believes that part of homosexual behaviourmay be genetic, DrCrownfeels that the acquired factors ar...

Biological aspects of homosexuality.

Social Aspects of Homosexuality.

Social anthropologists have found that homosexuals and homosexual acts have occurred in all civilizations without exception. The reaction to homosexuality has varied from severe condemnation (as in our own society), through indifference, to acceptance, and in a few cases, even to glorification, where the high priests of a religious cult have been exclusively homosexual. No matter what the react...

Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality

on an investigation designed to remedy some of the deficiencies in our knowledge of homosexuals. He interviewed six groups of 50 men each: homosexuals convicted of offences with adults, paedophiliacs convicted of offences with children, homosexual patients under psychiatric treatment, non-homosexual psychiatric patients, other homosexuals to whom none of the foregoing qualifications applied and...

Familial aspects of male homosexuality.

Research has generally supported the existence of familial-genetic factors for male sexual orientation, but has not shed much light on the specific nature of those influences. Gay men with gay brothers provide the opportunity to examine several hypotheses. Sixty-six men, representing 37 gay male sibling pairs, completed questionnaires assessing behavior on various measures including childhood a...