Originally Posted by hot dragon

firstly, it didnt. homosexuality only came under the umbrella of psychiatry in the 19th century. prior to that it was a moral issue, or a religious issue. psychiatry was never involved.

So what?

Human intuition has existed from the dawn of time, and that was when people first realised homosexuality wasn't right.



i did a quick medline search. for the century 1870 to 1970 there were 1011 published articles on homosexuality. of these 10 discussed the biology and nature of sexual attraction. (and, by the way, nearly all of them talked about human sexuality in freudian terms. if you follow this research, you have to believe most of what freud said)

from 1970 to 2007 there were 9683 total articles (this excludes all publications relating to HIV). of these 155 discuss the biology and nature of sexual attraction.

you can believe your 10 if you like. they are unreliable due to self selection bias and a complete lack of control groups and no investigator blinding.

How do you know?

You only say that because you are bigoted against Christians, Jews, Muslims and all other major world religions.





i will believe the other articles. the ones published with disciplined scientific techniques, appropriate control groups, researchers blinded, subjects randomly selected.