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Essay On Homosexuality

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Introduction

1.1 Alternative Sexual Orientation (A.S.O.)
Any Sexual Orientation which deviates from the conventional Heterosexual Sexual Orientation can be called as Alternative Sexual Orientation.

1.2 Basic Terms.
• Homosexuality: A Sexual Orientation where an individual is exclusively attracted to the members of same sex. Often termed as Gay, the term ‘Gay’ is used for Homosexual Males whereas the term ‘Lesbian’ is used for Homosexual Females.
• Heterosexuality: A Sexual Orientation where an individual is exclusively attracted to the members of opposite sex. It is often termed as ‘Straight’.
• Bisexuality: A Sexual Orientation where an individual is attracted to the members of both sexes and is termed as ‘Bi’.
• Asexuality: A person who …show more content…

They might be right in certain cases, others require much research but the following many cases show development of intense love and affection and permanent bonds between members of same sex as well as preference for the members of same sex even in the presence of members of opposite sex. These behaviours are documented by St Thomas Productions, which has combined research on Animal Homosexuality with never-before- seen film footage, to produce compelling and ground breaking documentary …show more content…

H. Hamer et al in 1993 tried to establish a connection between Genetics and Male Homosexuality. They studied 114 families of Homosexual men and via pedigree analysis, found out that there existed an increased rate of Same Sex Orientation (Kinsey 5 or 6) in maternal uncles and sons of maternal aunts but not their paternal sides. These observations suggested a possibility of X linked transmission of Homosexual Behaviour via certain gene(s) in a subset of Population.
Hamer et al hypothesised that if the X chromosome contains a gene that increases the probability of an individual's being homosexual, then genetically related Homosexual men must share X chromosome markers close to that particular gene. If no such gene exists, then no statistically significant correlations between sexual orientation and X chromosome markers will be observed. The X chromosome markers used for linkage analysis were simple sequence repeats, variable number of tandem repeats and RFLP, all detected by PCR. Evaluation of this data obtained from 40 pairs of homosexual brothers showed a connection between Male Homosexuality and distal region of Xq28 and there was no significant evidence for a relation between sexual orientation and loci lying outside of

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