Model Of Homosexuality Research Articles

Associations of Bisexuality and Homosexuality with Handedness and Footedness: A Latent Variable Analysis Approach

Non-right-handedness appears to be more common among bisexuals and homosexuals than among heterosexuals, which might be indirect evidence of effects of prenatal androgen exposure. Current data suggest higher prenatal testosterone levels among bisexual and homosexual women, but are inconclusive for men. This study examined the association between sexual orientation and non-right-handedness for sex differences and whether higher rates of mixed-handedness, rather than left-handedness, might be the driving factor. This allowed for more specific tests regarding the predictions of two competing theories of prenatal androgen exposure, the Geschwind–Galaburda theory and the callosal hypothesis, than in previous research. Being a potentially better indicator of cerebral lateralization than handedness, associations with footedness were also explored. To counter inconsistencies and shortcomings of previous research, we utilized two large discovery and replication datasets (ns = 2368 and 1565) and applied latent variable analysis to reliably classify lateral preferences (i.e., handedness, footedness). This maximized the statistical conclusion validity and allowed for direct tests of replicability. Sexual orientation was differentially associated with lateral preferences among men and women. Associations among women were consistent with predictions of the Geschwind–Galaburda theory, whereas among men they were consistent with predictions of the callosal hypothesis. The results were further consistent with models of homosexuality that suggest a role of parental epigenetic marks on sexually dimorphic fetal development. Research efforts should be increased with regard to footedness and epigenetic theories of homosexuality.

Wilde and the Model of Homosexuality in Mann's Tod in Venedig

In his article and the Model of Homosexuality in Mann's Der Tod in Venedig James P. Wilper examines the influence of Oscar Wilde and the effeminate homosexual identity which cohered as a result of Wilde's trials for act of gross indecency in 1895, in Mann's classic homoerotic short novel. Drawing on Alan Sinfield's The Wilde Century (1994) and recent scholarship into the impact of Wilde on German-language writers, as well as German homosexual communities of the early twentieth century, Wilper explores Mann's ambivalent response to Wilde's homosexual legacy. Later in his career, Mann writes of Wilde with Nietzsche as rebels in the name of beauty against the hypocrisy of Victorian middle-class morality and that Mann's view is prefigured, although ambivalently, in his treatment of aestheticism, dandyism, effeminacy, and same-sex desire in Der Tod in Venedig.

Homosexuality via canalized sexual development: a testing protocol for a new epigenetic model.

We recently synthesized and reinterpreted published studies to advance an epigenetic model for the development of homosexuality (HS). The model is based on epigenetic marks laid down in response to the XX vs. XY karyotype in embryonic stem cells. These marks boost sensitivity to testosterone in XY fetuses and lower it in XX fetuses, thereby canalizing sexual development. Our model predicts that a subset of these canalizing epigenetic marks stochastically carry over across generations and lead to mosaicism for sexual development in opposite-sex offspring – the homosexual phenotype being one such outcome. Here, we begin by outlining why HS has been under-appreciated as a commonplace phenomenon in nature, and how this trend is currently being reversed in the field of neurobiology. We next briefly describe our epigenetic model of HS, develop a set of predictions, and describe how epigenetic profiles of human stem cells can provide for a strong test of the model.

“I Don't Want to Taint the Name of Islam”: The Influence of Religion on the Lives of Muslim Lesbians

Islam is characterized as an extremely homophobic religion, which strictly forbids the union of two people of the same sex. This belief causes an immeasurable amount of strain and anxiety for lesbians because their feelings, desires, and emotions are considered “unnatural” and aberrant. The homophobic Islamic model of homosexuality thus celebrates heteronormative performances of gender and sexuality. In the present study, the issue of how religious identity interplays with sexual identity is examined. Using data gained from online interviews with five Muslim lesbians, the article considers whether the women are able to create their lesbian identity within a discourse that negates their sexual orientation. Their lives as Muslim lesbians produces a unique intersection where religion and sexuality converge, yet they are forced apart by religiously sanctioned homophobia, preventing them from exploring and expressing their sexuality. The article further examines whether Islam is a source upon which the women draw strength to understand their sexuality and to cope with being in the closet. Despite being members of Imaan, a Muslim LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) support group, the women continue to experience a significant degree of conflict. A reconciliation of faith with their sexuality is undermined by an unrelenting and intolerant religious attitude toward homosexuality.

“Coming Out of the internet”

This article focuses on the Internet as a “digital closet” in the context of Turkish lesbian and gay activism in the 1990s and early 2000s. In its analysis of media and sexual discourse, the article first discusses traditional media, such as the printing press and television. While the printing press and political reforms during the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish republic silenced sexual discourses, television brought them back as part of the new gender regime and disseminated a gender “deviance” model of homosexuality. Against this background, the rest of the article analyzes the metaphor of the Internet as a digital closet as it relates to collegiate lesbian and gay activism. The conclusion reflects on the significance and functions of this media metaphor for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual agency and subjectivities in Turkey, suggesting similar venues of research regarding sexuality and the Arab Spring in the Middle East.

Bisexuality

This reading list brings together a wide range of nonfiction books, journal articles, book chapters, theses, and dissertations that will be helpful to readers with an interest in the theoretical, research, clinical and community perspectives that have developed on bisexuality in the last twenty years. During this time, the illness model of homosexuality has been replaced by a more affirmative approach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning people, and the dichotomous model of sexual orientation has been replaced by a multidimensional approach to sexual orientation that has supported the recognition of bisexuality as a valid and distinct sexual orientation and identity. The work cited here represents the efforts of those researchers, clinicians, academicians, and community activists whose contributions to the literature offer a more comprehensive understanding of bisexuality and bisexual people. References are included in the following areas: multidimensional approaches to sexual orientation: bisexual identity, attractions and behavior; bisexual relationships and families; bisexuality and polyamory; bisexual youth and elders, bisexuality and transgender people; bisexuality and ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity; bisexuality and HIV/AIDS; affirmative mental health services for bisexual people; bisexuality and feminism; bisexuality and spirituality; bisexuality and queer theory; prejudice, discrimination, heterosexism, and biphobia; and bisexual politics and community.

Psychiatric, Psychoanalytic, and Mental Health Profession Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Switzerland

SUMMARY During the past 10 years, theoretical models of homosexuality have changed in Switzerland from a pathological view to one in which homosexuality is a non-pathological orientation equivalent to heterosexuality. Although it is a rarely discussed topic in the professional literature, there is a growing number of courses and lectures about homosexuality in the universities and schools of social sciences in Switzerland. Pathologizing therapists are usually members of religious groups and they are not psychologists and psychiatrists with professional qualifications. In several towns, lesbian and gay therapists are working together in informal groups, and there is a national organization of lesbian and gay therapists called “medy gays.” Being openly lesbian or gay still carries great risk for psychiatrists and psychologists who may not be accepted for psychoanalytic training. Swiss Psychoanalytic institutes are reluctant to openly discuss their admission policies. The paper concludes by calling for inves...

Homosexuality in Finland: The Decline of Psychoanalysis' Illness Model of Homosexuality

SUMMARY This paper addresses the ways in which Finnish psychiatric textbooks and psychotherapy practices have conceptualized homosexualities since the beginning of the twentieth century. Liberal views of the first decades changed in the 1950s under the influence of the American adaptational (Rado-Bieber) school of psychoanalysis. These later views were reflected in psychiatric textbooks until the 1990s. This paradigm has been criticized since the 1970s by radical psychiatrists and grassroots movements. Changes in American psychiatric textbooks contributed to the change in Finnish textbooks. However, the majority of mental health professionals still feel that their professional training had not given them adequate sources of information about homo/bisexuality and the treatment teams seldom discuss openly the sexual orientation of their clients.

Homosexuality in Finland: The decline of psychoanalysis' illness model of homosexuality

Homosexuality in Finland: The decline of psychoanalysis' illness model of homosexuality

Psychoanalysis and the model of homosexuality as psychopathology: a historical overview.

Psychoanalysis and the model of homosexuality as psychopathology: a historical overview.

The portrayal of homosexuality in abnormal psychology and sociology of deviance textbooks

This study examines the portrayal of homosexuality in abnormal psychology and sociology of deviance textbooks published in the United States and in print in 1995; publication dates for these books ranged between 1980 and 1995. A total of 27 textbooks—16 in psychology and 11 in sociology—were used. Books published during the 1980s were compared with those published in the 1990s. Results from textbooks in print in 1995 were compared with results from an earlier study of textbooks in print in 1980. As was found in the earlier study, three models of homosexuals and homosexuality appear in these books—homosexuality as illness, homosexuality as sin, and homosexuals as a minority group. However, striking changes have occurred in the relative importance of these models over the past 15 years. None of the textbooks currently in print explicitly describes homosexuality as an illness, compared with 30% in 1980, although many implicitly do so. The model of homosexuality as sin, meanwhile, has gained new life with the emergence of the AIDS epidemic. Finally, the minority group model is gaining strength, in both sociology and psychology textbooks.

Condition, orientation, role or false consciousness? Models of homosexuality and transsexualism.

Two aspects of theories of deviant behaviour are outlined and discussed. These are concerned with whether or not the deviant behaviour indicates some inherent quality of the actor and with the tenability of that behaviour from the theorist's point of view. Combining these aspects produces four models which are discussed here in relation to homosexuality and transsexualism. The ‘condition’ and ‘orientation’ models presume an intrinsic nature, whereas the ‘role’ and ‘false consciousness' models reject this conception. The ‘orientation’ and ‘role’ models regard the deviant phenomenon as acceptable, as a tenable variation, whereas the ‘condition’ and ‘false consciousness’ models regard it as unacceptable, as morally, biologically, politically or psychologically untenable.