Question by Murt Momain: Who was the first major psychological figure to treat homosexuality as normal?
As in instead of seeing it as a moral failing or mental illness?
Or was it more of just a cultural shift?
Was there a particular theorist who proposed that it is OK to be gay?
Idio – What? I have no idea what you mean or are talking about
Don — You can’t catch gay.
Best answer:
Answer by Idio
the body can adopt and hope you too soon.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Jesus
It’s still controversial, we don’t really know. In my opinion it’s a cultural thing. For example there are more homosexuals in San Francisco. I think everyone is born heterosexual, but culture turns them homosexual.
Strictly speaking homosexuality has been always been considered normal throughout the world except in cultures dominated by religions based on the Bible. The old Testament declared it an abomination, and the Christian churches declared it unnatural and a sin, and position shared by Islam. Sigmund Freud and Richard Von Kraft-Ebbing, who pioneered scientific study of sexual behavior, were the one who first declared it a disease rather than a moral failing, along with every other form of sexuality not approved by Victorian society. Freud even considered it a disease for a woman to experience orgasms during sex, the term for it was “nymphomania” and one recommended treatment, lasting into the 20th century was genital mutilation.
Researchers disputed Freud and Kraft-Ebbing for decades until the American Psychological and Psychiatric Associations, followed shortly by the rest of the world medical community, declared homosexuality to be a perfectly normal form of sexuality and removed it from their list of Mental Disorders in 1975. This only leaves the Abrahamic Churches as still standing against it, and they show no indication of shifting in any meaningful way.