Homosexuality

India's Law on Homosexuality Needs Recourse - Hampers HIV Prevention

Denis Broun, UNAIDS India coordinator, explained how India’s legal stance on homosexuality is actually causing a setback to the fight against HIV/AIDS and is an// infringement of the human rights of homosexual men. The law is enforced mainly to bring offenders to book, in cases dealing with ...

Biological Basis for Homosexuality

Recent research has revealed that having several older brothers increases the chances of a man being homosexual, which is a finding that adds //weight to the idea of a biological basis for sexual orientation. As Anthony F Bogaert of Brock University in St Catharines, Canada said, "It's likely t...

APA Releases Report on Sexuality Debate

...tractions along the way. Chambers just released his second book, Leaving homosexuality , which clarifies realistic expectations involved in this process. ...tonomy are respected in the future." MORE information on Leaving homosexuality VIEW the APA's report Founded in 1976, Exodus Inter...

Understanding the process of homosexual identity formation among Asian and Pacific Islander youth

... China, Japan and Korea). "For instance, in South Korea, where male children have obligations to marry and create a traditional notion of family, homosexuality is considered a deviant behavior that brings family dishonor and shame," the study states, noting that this cultural barrier leaves this sexual minori...

SIRIUS XM's Doctor Radio to Air July 4th Family Special '24 Hours About Our Kids: Why Kids Behave the Way They Do'

...deal with issues such as Autism, ADHD, mood disorders, depression, anxiety, homosexuality and more explored on marathon of Doctor Radio's weekly child psych show ...d how both parents and kids can deal with this debilitating issue. homosexuality and coming out - when does your child know, how do they tell you and what s...

Classified -- the lonely heart's long road to respectability

...for making friends and meeting lovers but also for forging a community when homosexuality was still illegal, when being single past the age of 21 was seen as embarra...rt. Dr Cocks is the author of Nameless Offences, a history of Victorian homosexuality and co-editor of The Modern History of Sexuality. ...

NO on Prop 8 Campaign Releases Statement by 300 California Pediatricians

...erself as a Fellow of the American College of Pediatricians. According to that organization's Web site, the American College of Pediatricians believes homosexuality is "preventable and changeable" and that "spanking can be an effective component of discipline." (See: http://www.acpeds.org ) The pediatrician's f...

Homosexuals' negative feelings about sexuality predict poor mental and sexual health

...that negative attitudes towards homosexuality, not homosexuality itself, are associated with both poorer mental and...minorities. Conversely, positive attitudes towards homosexuality are associated with better mental and sexual healt...years, scholars and educators have debated whether homosexuality is an objective disorder or whether societal preju...

Internews Enlists More Than 1,000 Journalists in Fight Against HIV/AIDS

... ARCATA, Calif., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In some countries, lime juice is thought to ward off HIV/AIDS. In others, homosexuality is not publicly discussed. Against such a backdrop of misinformation and stigma, how can developing countries fight a virus that has already killed ...

More than 1,000 Journalists Enlisted in Fight Against HIV/AIDS

... WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In some countries, lime juice is thought to ward off HIV/AIDS. In others, homosexuality is not publicly discussed. Against such a backdrop of misinformation and stigma, how can developing countries fight a virus that has already killed ...

Homosexuality in Medical Definition

Neuropsychiatry

... et al (1998), Gamazo-Garran, Soutullo and Ortuno (2002) Schizophrenia Narcissistic/Poor maternal parenting/escapism/ unresolved feelings of homosexuality NMDA receptor activation in the human prefrontal cortex Ross et al (2006) Visual hallucination - retinogeniculocalcarine tract, ascend...

Sexual orientation and medicine

...e American Psychiatric Association votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Men...ealth organization replaces its categorization of homosexuality as a mental illness with the diagnosis of ego-dyst... 1996 The US Department of Defense includes homosexuality in a list of "mental disorders," in a document kno...

Homosexuality in Medical Dictionary

Homosexual

... homosexuality is the sexual orientation of a person who is sexually and romantically attr...t Biblical truth and traditional family values. The Bible's teaching on homosexuality ... Are consensual homosexual acts prohibited by the Bible, or were the B...

Homosexuality in Biological Dictionary

Fecundity

...development rate of two introduced New Zealand chinook ... posted to vegetation seed fecundity competition annuals by AndrewD on 2009-02-04 ... homosexuality in males may be caused in part by genes that code for increased ... fecundity , and when they're represented in a male, they decrease fecundity ....