Homosexuality (Latin homosexualismus) is a collective term for the sexual attraction of an individual to persons of the same sex and sexual relations between them. The term can indicate both a preference for homosexual relationships over heterosexual ones, and the practice of alternating homo- and heterosexual relationships (bisexuality). Persons of this orientation often call themselves not homosexuals (for them, this is a gue and rather an offensive name), but gays.
Homosexuality is not uncommon. In different centuries and in different cultures, there were very different attitudes towards it. Once upon a time they were killed for it, once considered normal entertainment and a purely personal feature. “A person can live as a monogamous family in the territory as a male with a female, or can form hierarchical packs with a dominant male and a harem. The former occurs more often in the case of peace and abundance, the latter in the case of war and scarcity. In the second, by the way, case, well done males are always organized into something like a proto-army. Homosexual intercourse between young males seems to be a good behavioral adaptation that increases mutual assistance within such an army. And now this instinct is a little knocked down and gays are perceived as feminine in our country. And, in general, in the history of mankind, gays were the most militant subclass. Both Epaminondas and Pelopidas, in general, the entire Theban sacred detachment were gays. The samurai were gay. Military communities of this kind were very common among the ancient Germans. These are examples of commonplace examples, and not very commonplace — hwarang. Hwarang is the military elite in Ancient Korea, and it is characteristic that, in addition to rage in battle, the Hwarangs were distinguished by their extreme femininity, they painted their faces, and dressed in a mannered way”↑.
In European culture, from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 20th century, the attitude towards homosexuality (at least the official attitude) was sharply negative.
Research and definition of the attitude of specialists to the concept of homosexuality
The tendencies of liberalism began to penetrate especially strongly into medicine, starting from the middle of the XNUMXth century.
On December 15, 1973, a vote was held in the presidium of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). As a result of voting, 13 out of 15 members of the presidium supported the exclusion of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. A number of psychiatrists expressed their disagreement with this decision and, having collected 200 signatures, initiated a referendum. According to the results of voting in April 1974, out of about 10 thousand ballots, 5854 confirmed the decision of the presidium, and 3810 did not recognize it. According to A. A. Tkachenko, this case began to be called an «epistemological scandal», since the solution of scientific issues by voting is a unique case. The term «homosexuality» was replaced by «violation of sexual orientation». Even militant homosexuals agreed with the term «sexual orientation violations.» Frank Kameny said that a homosexual who renounces his homosexuality needs treatment to help him get rid of his homophobia. The DSM-III introduced the term «ego-dystonic homosexuality.
The American National Association for the Study and Therapy of Homosexuality remains a supporter of the traditionalist approach to homosexuality as an unwanted violation of sexual orientation.
Question N.I. Kozlov: I would like to know your opinion about same-sex relationships. This is a pathology and it needs to be “treated”, i.e. do such people live the wrong life, or does happiness and happy family relationships not depend on the gender of their partners?
Answer:
The question is wrong. Happy family relationships do not depend on the gender of the partners in them — this is on the one hand. On the other hand, just happiness, even in pairs, is a small value. Piggy in a puddle is happy — so what? People in my circle think about what mark they will leave in life, and the attitude “grow a tree, build a house, raise a son” is obligatory for us. My children will not be interested in same-sex relationships.
In this regard, the objection:
Don’t you think that equating «worthy for life» with «smart and decent children» is not entirely legitimate? My young man (I’m gay) works as an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. This is not an easy profession, and being in the family (with me) he receives a lot of resources in order to save more than a dozen lives a week. Is it not to be registered in your “worthy life”, for he saved as many other people’s lives in his life as you will never reproduce. Moreover, we are going to take a child for adoption, which, unfortunately, is not easy in our country (the state believes that two dads are worse than none). I believe that our family, and we in particular, are no less worthy of being considered a family than many Russian families, where husbands sit around the clock watching TV and condemn, devalue me and my husband, to whom someday they will inadvertently end up in a hospital bed or their mothers. In addition, I will tell you that in the birth of children, as such, there is also no value if this is a typical Russian family of average income, where they do not know how to raise children at all, and the children themselves turned out to be “on the fly”. Or do you want to say that such a family will not become “pigs in a puddle” in your eyes only by the fact of the birth of children, and ours will become by the fact of not being born?
Answer:
My respect to you and your young man. I think we have similar points of view regarding the main things. I am close to people who care not only about their well-being, but also about the people nearby, I think about the trace that they will leave in life. And I will not be interested in whether this doctor is gay or not, if he is an excellent professional and a decent person. I also agree with you that children, stupid just like their parents, are not a gift to the world. However, it is important for me that children grow up thinking not only about their personal happiness, but about those people who will come after them. And I know that sexual orientation is not always innate, much depends on what the child hears and sees from adults who are authoritative for him. And what will be the orientation of the boy you take for adoption? If your example for him turns out to be the reason that he himself will create a similar family, and if this becomes widespread in our society — sorry, I will be against it, at least at the level of my personal opinion. My friends family was recently in Amsterdam where there was a huge gay festival. They were with children, and their impressions turned out to be very difficult: “We considered ourselves very tolerant people, but our tolerance faded there. There was an aggressive propaganda of same-sex marriages with pressure on the fact that those who have not yet taken communion with this, those narrow-minded and narrow-minded people. We do not want our children to be exposed to such propaganda.” You know I don’t want to either.
I think that what my friends described is not at all typical for you, and you will understand me: I fully understand same-sex relationships, but I want there to be propaganda of same-sex marriages in our country.