one of the arguments against recognising homosexual relationships is to say that anything not exclusively heterosexual is a flaw, illness or in some way an abnormality. below i provide some recent publications relating to the issue of homosexuality and how it is being discussed in the scientific literature. this literature review is by no means exhaustive.

i have put the articles in roughly into topics. many of them discuss numerous issues and the groups i have used are not the only way of reading them. i have grouped them into articles that discuss the nature of homosexual relationships, the psychology of homosexuality generally and homosexual arousal, the biology of homosexual arousal and desire, the genetic and evolutionary arguments and some information about homosexuality in other species.

there is more published on these issues, and much more published on issues such as rights, equity, prejudice, faith, etc. but i limit myself in this post to the issues above.

none of these articles present homosexuality as a flaw or illness. they all discuss homosexuality in terms of it being a feature of individuals, a variant, a way of being. there is nobody in the mainstream scientific literature who presents it in terms of a problem we should treat or regard as a fault.

this information is not, unfortunately, generally available on the internet. to access any of them you will need access to a university library with subscription access to the journals cited. sorry for the inconvenience, but it seems that citing web sites and books has just lead to more circles. the primary data is the best to use anyway, so happy reading.