Homosexuality Is Evolutionary

If you don't know where I am going with this, you can go ahead and read the article. I will be posting a blog post on these two books soon on my WordPress blog.

Not many people take to homosexuality quite so easily. For some time, psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud and his teacher, Richard Krafft-Ebing, have thought that homosexuality was either congenial or acquired, but as for how someone was to achieve homosexuality, the case was always using electroshock therapy to reverse the abnormalities in the brain (wonderful bunch, Victorians are).

But in the modern century, the 20th century, a zoologist named Desmond Morris didn't see homosexuality as immoral behavior. Instead, he thought it to be evolutionary to group survival when, at the dawn of man, man was beginning to learn how to create and adapt to climate changes and further expand his land and tribes.

I will analyze Richard's work as well as Desmond's. But I will also mention some medical theories that have come to light and might also shed light as to why homosexuality isn't a bad thing if you don't want your species to die out. For the record, I'm not trying to turn anyone into a homosexual; I'm just trying to change opinions and let someone see the evolutionary perspective of the whole sexuality concept.

Richard Krafft-Ebing

Before Richard, Darwin traveled around the world to understand adaptation of species and survival. His novel, Origin of the Species, helped create Social Darwinism, which meant that the fit who survive carry on good genetics, economic connections, and knowledge to be passed onto the future generation. In this time period, the Victorians saw homosexuality as abnormal and immoral. But different views of homosexuality have transgressed in earlier times before the Victorian era, citing that it wasn't immoral or sinful because it was either common or normal to practice sexual relationships with both the same and opposite sex. The idea that the practice was sinful was mostly from the Christian point of view, which came with the Catholic Church in the early and middle periods of the Medieval era.

Psychopathia Sexualis was a book written by Professor Richard Krafft-Ebing, who was from Austria and taught psychology at the University of Vienna (his pupil was the infamous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud whose theories have been wildly popular for marketing tactics).

In his book, he claims that sexuality is an evolutionary impulse, to consummate and continue the species so that they may survive. Many of his psychological notions coincide with Darwin's Origin of the Species, which was released in 1859. But, like the Victorian time period, many thought that homosexuality was a mental illness often caused by something physical or psychologically caused by trauma. Some methods of curing this "mental illness" often include shock therapy or methods of borderline torture. The idea that homosexuality is a mental illness is common today and there are many conversion camps that use electroshock therapy and medical practices such as chemical castration treatments. It often drove many homosexual people into depression. It has also been noted that homosexual people have a higher rate of developing depression and committing suicide than their heterosexual counterparts (blame those old Victorian societal norms).

Despite the fact that Richard's book is often full of incredulous cases about fetishes, BDSM, and homosexuality, there is a defining point to the theory which could be supported by a later sociobiologist author Desmond Morris who wrote about primal and natural forms of homosexuality — that homosexual activity between species is helping the human population and our primal relatives continue to survive and adapt to their surroundings.

Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris is several things, but the one thing that is his passion is sociobiology, or biological studies based on social structure. Morris is a zoologist and has noted several homosexual pairings in primates and other forms of animal species in zoos. Most of the homosexual pairings resulted in the fact that a very small genetic pool is common in groups of zoo families and therefore, two primates or other animals would pair up if the partner of the previous spouse or relative to the spouse were to die from old age or illness.

Even though the book was written and published originally in 1967, the notion of the story stands clear. Homosexuality was an evolutionary adaptation of primal and humanistic cultures to ensure the species would survive. Some of it boils down to the break away from our primate ancestors and some of it boils down to the beginning of group survival. As Bill Nye states in the video, homosexuality's purpose is for group survival and not so much individual survival.

Even though we are an individualistic society, the notion that homosexuality is a behavior and mental problem is often daunting to overcome. If sexuality is to be determined by other individuals, then maybe everyone should not seek out to be loved by every individual. If you have close friends and family, then that is all the comfort you need.

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