Homosexuality has existed since the dawn of human civilization. How many young men and girls, and even adults, are plagued by problems with sexual orientation. Many people still ask whether homosexuality is a disease? Can heterosexuals really be bent?
When talking about homosexuality, have you ever had such a thought: "Homosexuality is a fashion", "I like the same sex because I haven't slept with the opposite sex", "Homosexuality will lead to the destruction of the world", "Homosexuals are dirty", and so on. It's not surprising to have these thoughts, because you may not know or know anything about homosexuality. So, here's an inventory of 8 common misconceptions about homosexuality.
Some Chinese believe that homosexuality is a decadent way of life that came from the West and did not exist in China before the reform and opening up. As everyone knows, as early as thousands of years ago, China's allusions to homosexuality have been endless in history books.
From the "Book of Shang", "Book of Zhou", "Book of Poetry", to "Warring States Policy", "Book of Han", "History of the North" and a large number of ancient classics, you can find love allusions about homosexuality. Among the ancient emperors and celebrities, there were also many homosexuals or bisexuals, including Wei Linggong and Mi Zifeng, Qi Jinggong and Yuren, Wei Wang and LongYang jun, Han Gaozu and Zhi wei, Han Wendi and Deng Tong, Han Ai Emperor and Dong Xian, Jian Jian and Murong Chong, etc., and even the well-known "Dream of the Red Chamber" has a large number of plots and texts describing homosexuality.
Some people think of gay or bisexuality as a lifestyle that can be self-made, but there is currently no scientific evidence that you can choose your sexual orientation autonomously, but at the same time there is no conclusive evidence that you must be born. Whether you like the same sex or the opposite sex is just how you feel deep down, nothing more. Why doesn't anyone ask about the causes of heterosexuality?
Homosexuality or bisexuality is not a disease, so it should not be treated at all. To date, we have no scientific evidence that a person can change from homosexual to heterosexual with the help of treatment.
Sexual orientation cannot be changed. Homosexuals don't become heterosexual because of a particular experience, just as heterosexuals can't become gay. Most married homosexuals are forced to marry the opposite sex under the pressure of family and society, and they live a double life full of lies, because marriage does not change their sexual orientation, they are just controlling and suppressing themselves.
As with heterosexuality, not all homosexuals look the same and behave the same. Some homosexuals may conform to some gender patterns, but many others do not. Homosexuality exists in all groups of people – regardless of age, race, nationality, occupation, socioeconomic status, etc.
On the other hand, it is said that some homosexuals have a strong intuition for distinguishing whether others are of the same kind, and they will notice some very subtle signals - this radar-like ability is vividly called "gay radar", of course, whether "gay radar" really works or not, it will vary from person to person! But what we should do is that we should no longer look at the people around us in a gender-like way.
Although there is no complete evidence of the cause of homosexuality, most scientists agree that the formation of sexual orientation is innate, but not heritable. Many people oppose gay adoption or surrogacy because they believe that the children of homosexuals must also be gay and sexual, but so far there is no scientific evidence to prove that the offspring of homosexuals are less or higher than the offspring of heterosexuals. This means that, like heterosexuals, homosexuals have offspring that can be homosexuals or heterosexuals.
Homosexuality and pedophilia have nothing to do with it. Pedophiles are both homosexuals and heterosexuals.
Due to historical reasons, in the past, Chinese media and publications often compared homosexuality with drug addiction and gambling, etc., as a degenerate way of life, and this stigmatization of homosexuals affected many post-50s to post-80s Chinese. Uncontrolled addiction to drugs and gambling has been included in the list of psychiatric diseases that require the intervention of drug therapy and psychotherapy. However, homosexuality is not an addiction to the same sex, but a yearning and desire from the depths of the heart, homosexuality is not a mental illness, and it does not need treatment.
Any kind of sexual orientation has nothing to do with morality. We are always accustomed to looking down on others from the so-called moral high ground, but it is often unclear what moral standards are based on, not to mention that this moral standard itself may be problematic. If you are heterosexual, if you think homosexuality is immoral, then your disgust, hatred, and even violence against another group of living people must be moral?
As early as 1990, the World Health Organization had removed homosexuality from the list of personality and behavioral disorders in the "ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders"; in 2001, China's psychiatric triage manual CCMD-3 had removed homosexuality from sexual psychological disorders. To this day, however, twist therapy for homosexuality persists. It is used by many parents who are reluctant to admit that their children are gay and "correct" their sexual orientation.
In short, we need to make it clear and emphasizing that homosexuality cannot be "turned" into, just as it cannot be "reversed" and "cured." So. Stop believing in any corrective therapy about sexual orientation, whether you like boys or girls, you're a normal person.