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For love and one's own needs, there is no orientation in the first place. It's just that human beings are creatures with social attributes, and we live in social organizations, so it is inevitable that groups will be divided. Although it is a natural law for same-sex repulsions and opposite-sex attraction, there is nothing wrong with liking a person's feelings, and there is no high or low sexual orientation.
If you must define the types of sexual orientation, the best answer is only the same-sex and opposite-sex. Instead of having normal and abnormal distinctions.
When we can look at sexual orientation objectively and without prejudice, have you ever thought about whether sexual orientation is innate or acquired?
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The field of psychology has a very clear definition of sexual orientation:
"Sexual orientation (Sexual Orientation) referred to as sexual orientation, also known as sexual orientation, sexual orientation, sexual orientation, etc., it refers to a person's emotional, romantic, and sexually attractive to men or women."
Human beings will have feelings for groups of a certain gender in the category of love, which includes both spiritual love for a certain gender group and the desire to physically satisfy sexual needs.
When we analyze a person's sexual orientation, it is best to consider these two factors. Only love, perhaps only some kind of inexplicable admiration or spiritual dependence, only sexual desire may only have some kind of sexual proclivity.
There are generally two views on the emergence of sexual orientation: the theory of primordiality and the theory of acquired generation.
The innate view holds that the production of a person's sexual orientation is related to his own genetic genes, and it belongs to a recessive attribute like personality talent. The acquired environment plays a role in controlling or stimulating potentials for this attribute.
The acquired environmentalist view is very similar to Pavlov's theory of conditions, and the acquired unconditional stimulus is combined many times to directly affect and shape a person's love values and sexual orientation.
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The Psychology of Heavy Taste explains homosexual behavior in sexual orientation: "In the United States, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness before the 1977s also included homosexual behavior as a symptom of sexual deviation.
More than a decade later, in the revised edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published in 1987, the term "homosexual behavior" was no longer included, meaning that homosexual behavior was no longer considered a psychotic state. ”
Psychological science to justify the name of homosexual behavior has made society more and more accepting of the gay community, and the book still points out several reasons for homosexual behavior from multiple perspectives, which can be roughly summarized as: childhood environment, love experience, and genetics.
Childhood environment
If a person is raised as a member of the opposite sex from an early age, then his mentality, aesthetics or personality may be affected. Children who grow up in special environments are likely to have the wrong gender role perception.
The gay community often has a high sense of identification with the opposite sex group, and often subconsciously believes that they belong to the same group as the opposite sex. In this view, it is difficult for them to develop feelings for the opposite sex group.
In addition, if a person is induced by the homosexual community when he is young, he is also prone to changes in sexual orientation in this environment.
The "Psychology of Heavy Taste" here quotes the behaviorist statement, which roughly means that if a person has a bad love experience with the opposite sex, but then gets a beautiful and sweet love experience in a gay period, then he will have a tendency to identify with his homosexual sexual orientation in his heart, and have the desire to continue to develop with homosexuality.
If a person meets another half that makes you feel no burden, this is also a very comfortable love journey, but it may be the person who brings you a good experience, not a group that can naturally fit you.
Although the whole society pursues the marital love of free love, people with special sexual orientations are still marginalized groups. The prejudice of some homophobes in society against the gay community puts a lot of pressure on this marginalized group.
In addition, some traditional concepts of marriage are still dominant in society, and the purpose of people's union is still inseparable from the concepts of "reproduction of offspring" and "transmission of life".
Therefore, in the eyes of some people, the homosexual community pursues only simple happiness, no filial piety, no queen, and they have not fulfilled their family obligations.
People don't offend me, I don't offend people, and if the gay community doesn't become the carrier of some disease, then they don't have any negative impact on the lives of the rest of the people.
The world is inherently colorful, and you can not accept a certain phenomenon happening, but you need to allow it to exist. Hopefully, society's prejudices can be smaller and our tolerance can be greater.
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参考资料：[1]Wells, A. (2019). Breaking the Cybernetic Code: Understanding and Treating the Human Metacognitive Control System to Enhance Mental Health. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2621.
[2] Frederick, D. A., John, H. K. S., Garcia, J. R., & Lloyd, E. A. (2017). Differences in Orgasm Frequency Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Men and Women in a U.S. National Sample. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47(1), 273–288.
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