• HIV can be transmitted through acts of unprotected vaginal or anal sex, blood transfusions or from mother to child through pregnancy, birth or breast milk. (ncfh.org)
  • Some sexual practices, including oral-genital sex, vaginal or anal sex using hands, fingers, or penetrative sex toys, and oral-anal sex, are commonly practiced by female sex partners ( 5 - 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • They found that while homosexual men were more likely than heterosexual men to have felt especially close to their mothers, this had almost no effect on the development of male homosexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Homosexual women were more likely than heterosexual women to describe their relationships with their mothers as negative, and to have detached or hostile fathers, but only the latter factor seemed significant. (wikipedia.org)
  • s objective was to test the explanations of how people become heterosexual or homosexual proposed by psychoanalysts and social scientists, including psychoanalytic theories attributing homosexuality to a failure to resolve Oedipal conflicts. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Catholic Church has infallibly taught since its beginning that homosexual acts are gravely sinful and that same-sex attraction is disordered. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Homosexual acts not only exclude the possibility of procreation, but they are also contrary to the order of nature as they depart from the inclination toward the opposite sex. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Moreover, Dieser's assertions that homosexuality is a "variant of human sexuality" appears to hinge on the claim that people are "born" with homosexual inclinations and that they are therefore "natural. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The cultural stigma surrounding homosexuality, for instance, could lead to the underreporting of homosexual activity. (theconversation.com)
  • These efforts led to the observation that wild-type (genetically unaltered) male flies will participate in homosexual courtship when exposed to a vigorous male-male courtship environment, demonstrating that both genetic factors and environmental cues influence this behavior. (nybooks.com)
  • One of the most pervasive issues of our time is the movement to embrace homosexual behavior, same-sex "marriage," and the marred versions of masculinity and femininity that accompany this lifestyle. (answersingenesis.org)
  • This is what makes homosexual behavior so morally perverse in Scripture-homosexuality is a direct violation of the creation order. (answersingenesis.org)
  • The fixated child molester - the stereotypical pedophile - cannot be considered homosexual or heterosexual because "he often finds adults of either sex repulsive" and often molests children of both sexes. (splcenter.org)
  • In his discussion of each of these factors, set out in full below, Dr. Segura assigns a primary role to religious beliefs: Moral and Political Condemnation: While the pluralist framework envisions shifting majorities and rotation in office, Old Testament prohibitions of homosexuality serve to create, in many of America's religious communities, a permanent majority that believes homosexual conduct is sinful and immoral and that it should be condemned and discouraged. (justia.com)
  • Same-sex sexual or homosexual behaviors in other animals have been observed in about 1500 species. (profolus.com)
  • He further noted that the animal kingdom demonstrates sexual diversity-including homosexual, bisexual, and non-reproductive sex. (profolus.com)
  • Some researchers have also argued that homosexual behaviors observed in animals are not primarily motivated by sex but a socio-sexual purpose. (profolus.com)
  • Discroll has summed up several critical reasons why animal species apart from humans demonstrate varying degrees of homosexual behaviors. (profolus.com)
  • In other words, there are genetic factors transmitted through the maternal line (partly linked to the X-chromosome) that increase the probability of becoming homosexual in males, but they promote higher fecundity in females (Camperio-Ciani et al. (musingsone.com)
  • Hence, the genetic factors that "… influence homosexual orientation in males are not selected against because they increase fecundity in female carriers, thus offering a solution to the Darwinian paradox and an explanation of why natural selection does not progressively eliminate homosexuals" (Iemmola and Camperio-Ciani 2009). (musingsone.com)
  • Poor father-son relationships appeared to be weakly connected to male homosexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • For male homosexuality, one of the best explanations so far comes from recent studies suggesting that female relatives of gay men generally have more offspring than the female relatives of straight men. (musingsone.com)
  • In both sexes, but especially in men, homosexuality was connected to "Childhood Gender Nonconformity", which was a measure partly of behavior more typical of the opposite sex and partly of subjective feelings of masculinity and femininity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Still to this day, only one HIV prevention intervention aimed at changing behavior toward safer sex practices specifically designed for black gay men has undergone a randomly controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness. (gaycitynews.com)
  • However, Peterson's work demonstrated that group level interventions can change black, gay men's behavior and called attention to the importance of addressing psychosocial factors in trying to do so. (gaycitynews.com)
  • According to one hypothesis, a 'fluid sexuality' that enabled same-sex sexual behavior in women made it easier for women to raise children together. (musingsone.com)
  • Why should identification as a lesbian or practice of same-sex behavior affect a patient's access to infectious diseases-related care? (cdc.gov)
  • For the sake of simplicity, we will use the term "lesbian" to refer to a woman who engages in sex with another woman, and thus represents the axis of sexual behavior, which may not necessarily be congruent with self-defined sexual identity ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Until recently, the major national women's health studies did not collect information on same-sex behavior or sexual identity ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, few, if any, state or local STI reporting systems routinely collect information on same-sex behavior among women. (cdc.gov)
  • Sexual desire is the natural inclination toward sexual intercourse with the opposite sex so as to reproduce. (lifesitenews.com)
  • including] that the traditional family unit, headed by an opposite-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of children. (splcenter.org)
  • You should also steer clear of being in case of with people who all are in the complete opposite sex. (kkbsshipping.com)
  • There is a rare form of 'transvestism' (if one can call it such) in which the patient does not dress in the clothes of the opposite sex but as a child. (infantilism.org)
  • "... psychologically masculine females and feminine men are (a) more likely to be nonheterosexual but (b), when heterosexual, have more opposite-sex sexual partners" (Zietsch et al. (musingsone.com)
  • The first obtains from just straightforward bisexuality, i.e. where ancestral sex lives commonly involved a mix of both same-sex and heterosexual activity but in varying proportions (informed in part by genotypic variability) ranging from bisexual with a more dominant opposite-sex attraction, to bisexual with a more dominant same-sex attraction. (musingsone.com)
  • Nevertheless, some reviewers complimented Sexual Preference for its authors' challenge to established views about the causes of homosexuality, and it eventually came to be considered a classic work. (wikipedia.org)
  • So-called 'gay genes' have not yet been precisely identified, but pedigree and twin studies have shown that homosexuality tends to run in families (reviewed in Ngun etal. (musingsone.com)
  • But this argument has never been substantiated, despite the fact that studies have shown that homosexuality is a heritable trait. (iflscience.com)
  • The studies have shown that homosexuality has both a heritable and an environmental component. (iflscience.com)
  • A landmark event in the redefinition of homosexuality came in 1974, when the American Psychological Association officially repudiated the pathological definition of homosexuality. (geocities.ws)
  • 1973 was an important year for the LGBT community as the American Psychiatric Association removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders their definition of homosexuality. (ukessays.com)
  • Research has shown that men are generally attracted to one sex or the other, whereas women are more likely than men to have a bisexual orientation. (musingsone.com)
  • Right wing conservative preachers are numerous and condemn homosexuality and the LGBT community in the media and from their pulpits. (abbi.org.au)
  • This report focuses on torture and ill-treatment by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) which is Lebanon's main police force, and in particular the Drug Repression Bureau and members of the ISF who enforce "morality-related" laws against drug users, sex workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. (hrw.org)
  • According to the experts and former detainees we spoke with, the police do little to hide their disdain of drug users, sex workers, and LGBT people. (hrw.org)
  • Same sex orientation is not a perversion, illness or the result of a dysfunctional upbringing but an expression of sexuality that appears in every culture as well as nature. (abbi.org.au)
  • There was a time when the majority of western culture viewed homosexuality as an illness and perversion. (abbi.org.au)
  • Through much of this century, the medical and scientific community defined homosexuality as sickness, deviance, sex perversion or a form of criminality. (geocities.ws)
  • Now, I'm not sure how much of this heritage is necessarily genealogical, and how much is syncretist, but it does provide a local alternative set of sex/gender identities to the pakeha orthodoxy. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • To focus on "did he or didn't he" is to make the mistake of the homophobes, who are convinced that homoerotic relationships are all about genital sex. (blogspot.com)
  • Some scientists believe that the frontally-placed clitoris of female bonobos has evolved to facilitate same-sex activities, particularly genital-genital rubbing. (profolus.com)
  • Legal mechanisms regulating the shared lives of same-sex couples have been established, including, to speak only of France, the PACS ( pacte civil de solidarité , or civil solidarity pact, created in 1999) and same-sex marriage (2013). (booksandideas.net)
  • For decades, researchers have asked the question of whether biological or social factors play the greater role in development of sexual attraction, without reaching a consensus. (medscape.com)
  • Several researchers and writers who perceive homosexuality with positivity usually begin their discussions by implying that this sexual orientation is natural. (profolus.com)
  • In 2014, researchers confirmed the association between same-sex orientation in men and a specific chromosomal region . (iflscience.com)
  • To assist you find out regardless of whether you're gay and lesbian, you should consider a number of factors. (kkbsshipping.com)
  • sexual orientation and chronic conditions, health limitations, These and other studies reported that lesbian or bisexual women health risk factors, and protective health practices. (cdc.gov)
  • The phrase "comprehensive sex education" is commonly used in policy debates and by the media to distinguish approaches that cover contraception and protection from those that strategically omit these topics. (guttmacher.org)
  • Three very significant lessons can be drawn from the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. (catholic.com)
  • Together with its Statistical Appendix, Sexual Preference was the conclusion of a series of books including Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography (1972) and Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (1978), both co-authored by Bell and Weinberg. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is one of the most frequently cited retrospective studies relating to sexual orientation, credited by psychologists with disproving psychoanalytic theories about the development of homosexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aware that some scholars might reject any view of the development of homosexuality resembling psychoanalytic theory, they noted that many of the variables used in their statistical analyses pertained to "experiences occurring outside our respondents′ original households", including relationships with peers, labeling by others, and sexual experiences. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to gay gene theory, genetic factors are responsible for sexual orientation, with our genetic inheritance programming us to desire one sex rather than the other. (spiked-online.com)
  • Many studies suggest social factors are also important influences in the formation of sexual orientation. (spiked-online.com)
  • Male same-sex sexual behaviour was widespread in a population of rhesus macaques. (theconversation.com)
  • We observed these monkeys for three years and found that male same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) was widespread. (theconversation.com)
  • The average Christian is uninformed about the mounting research that demonstrates sexual orientation is pre-wired and complex, involving a combination of pre-natal hormonal and genetic factors. (abbi.org.au)
  • Twenty-one women we spoke with reported that police had subjected them to some form of sexual violence or coercion, ranging from sexual assault to offering them "favors" (such as cigarettes, food, more comfortable conditions in their cells, or even a more lenient police report) in exchange for sex. (hrw.org)
  • Sex workers and female drug users appeared to be at particular risk for sexual assault and blackmail. (hrw.org)
  • No specific biological or psychosocial factors have been identified that determine why some individuals develop sexual attraction toward members of the same sex. (medscape.com)
  • Biological theories regarding GLB sexuality attempt to link sexual orientation with DNA markers on the X chromosome or to demonstrate that in utero maternal hormones have an effect on sexual orientation. (medscape.com)
  • This is demonstrated when observing historical social changes in sexual orientation. (ukessays.com)
  • Constructionists hold that sexual orientation is fluid and dynamic, and that sexuality is constructed by social factors and influenced by social changes. (ukessays.com)
  • Historically we have witnessed the regulation of sexual orientation through formal societal controls enforced through law and judicial mechanisms, demonstrated historically by the sodomy laws prohibited homosexuality and made a capital offence in Britain in 1810. (ukessays.com)
  • The use of homosexuality to describe the sexual behaviors of animals other than humans is also confusing to a certain extent. (profolus.com)
  • Their sexual behaviors are driven by sex alone. (profolus.com)
  • Like most human behavioural traits, a preference for same-sex sexual relationships can be informed in part by learning and environmental / developmental experiences. (musingsone.com)
  • The earliest was derived by Derrick Sherwin Bailey, who suggested that the Hebrew phrase "to know" (here translated, "have sex with") should not be understood euphemistically as a sexual reference, but instead simply as, "to get acquainted with. (ac3.org)
  • A study of sexually transmitted diseases in heterosexuals, bisexuals and homosexuals reported from Copenhagen in 1988 (Christopherson), demonstrated that the profile of diseases was strongly correlated to sexual lifestyle. (americansfortruth.com)
  • The research left ZERO wiggle room for anyone who would argue that homosexuality is a "perfectly normal and healthy alternative sexual orientation. (goodasyou.org)
  • In fact, several epidemiological studies involving prostate cancer patients from sexual minorities have demonstrated varying rates of prostate cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment ( 5 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Ngo DL, Moseley K. Sexual Orientation and Sex Differences in antly more likely to have a physical disability, smoke cigarettes, Adult Chronic Conditions, Health Risk Factors, and Protective binge drink, and more likely to get an HIV test. (cdc.gov)
  • The sexual and reproductive health of female sex workers in Southern Africa is particularly important, given the high prevalence of HIV among this population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Furthermore, ideological differences might be less important to the sex education debates than the distinction between pragmatic and absolutist perspectives. (guttmacher.org)
  • Last week, a team of scientists at the University of Padova in Italy made headlines around the world when they claimed to have discovered that homosexuality in males may be caused in part by genes that can increase fertility in females (1). (spiked-online.com)
  • The passive or receiving males trigger this misidentification whenever they release sex pheromones or carry female pheromones that were attached to them during prior mating activities with female species. (profolus.com)
  • The practice of sex reassignment in similar cases when a penis has been lost due to infant trauma or accident, or when it is considered unusually small, is still current. (ukia.co.uk)
  • Sex trafficking is a horrible practice. (counterpunch.org)
  • Because this article discusses a subset of women defined by their practice of sex with other women, it will focus primarily on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their consequences. (cdc.gov)
  • PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH, PRACTICE, AND POLICY AUGUST 2014 tion to the state's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System married, or never married. (cdc.gov)
  • This morose reality makes a strong case for a fitting redefinition of so-called "homophobia," that being "Homophobia: The rational fear that 'gay sex' will kill you! (goodasyou.org)
  • The aim of our research was never to spread more homophobia, but to demonstrate to an international audience how the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men can be estimated from limited vital statistics data. (goodasyou.org)
  • This study aimed at analyzing social representations of Brazilian gay men concerning male aging, homosexuality and homophobia. (bvsalud.org)
  • In that case, a slim 5-4 majority declared that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution requires every state to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. (frc.org)
  • And does the access of same-sex couples to parenthood change the nature of kinship? (booksandideas.net)
  • Nevertheless, despite being strongly disfavoured by natural selection, strict homosexuality would have persisted in low frequency simply because of genetic factors informing same-sex attraction that were inherited from bisexual ancestors. (musingsone.com)
  • In our paper, we demonstrated that in a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 21 years less than for all men. (goodasyou.org)
  • Our estimates align with what we would expect for a behavioural trait that is probably influenced by multiple genetic factors and environmental effects. (theconversation.com)
  • Moreover, same-sex partnerships lack the complementarity that Adam and Eve's marriage exemplifies. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Men and women were created with unique masculine and feminine roles that, when brought together in marriage, create a harmony that same-sex relationships cannot adequately mimic. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Same-sex "marriage" turns God -designed marriage on its head. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom has been the subject of wide debate since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain. (dielleindustries.com)
  • And their immutable nature dictates that same-sex marriage is their only real path to this profound commitment. (frc.org)
  • This " Glucksberg test" was a serious problem for those claiming a "fundamental right" to same-sex "marriage. (frc.org)
  • Second, Justice Kennedy argues that the issue is not whether there is a "right to same-sex marriage," but rather whether gays and lesbians, as persons, may exercise the "fundamental right to marry" which belongs to everyone. (frc.org)
  • The recent Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage opened floodgates of alarmed and snarky speculation from detractors about whether it sets a precedent for the legalization of polyamorous marriages, and the Internet has largely responded in the affirmative. (blogspot.com)
  • I think something similar is at work in some of the Hawaiian debates around same-sex marriage within indigenous Hawaiian communities. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • Ongoing and sometimes rancorous policy debates at the federal, state and local school district levels focus on the relative merits of sex education that teaches abstinenceonly until marriage versus approaches that include instruction on contraception and protection against STDs for students who do become sexually active. (guttmacher.org)
  • Data for 2004-2005 CDC's National Behavioral Surveillance System reported shocking rates of HIV infection among black men who have sex with men-a category that includes a wide-array of self-identifications, usually dubbed MSM-that rival those seen in many African nations. (gaycitynews.com)
  • This study is aimed at assessing the level of awareness and willingness to use PrEP to prevent HIV infection among female sex workers (FSWs) in Anambra State, Nigeria, and to identify factors that influence willingness to use PrEP. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mental health professionals understanding changed in the early 70's and homosexuality was declassified as a mental illness. (abbi.org.au)
  • When asked by the interviewer if God opposes "a man loving a man or a woman loving a woman," Dieser replied that "same-sex attraction and lovemaking is not an aberration, but a variant of human sexuality. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Firstly it is inevitable that the church will accept the fact that homosexuality is an orientation and not an abomination. (abbi.org.au)
  • Once pre-wired in the womb, same-sex orientation begins to play out in people's physical appearance, natural abilities, brain functioning, socialisation and emotional attachment. (abbi.org.au)
  • People who are attracted to others of the same sex develop their orientation before they are born. (iflscience.com)
  • Today, most studies regarding the prevalence of homosexuality involve adult subjects (5-10%), but these figures also appear to be consistent with the available data concerning adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • These figures suggests that most adolescents who might be experiencing same-sex attractions are reluctant to label themselves as GLB. (medscape.com)
  • Four types of reasons for preferences emerged: those focused on the consequences of actions, on the importance of providing complete information, on the inevitability of adolescents' engaging in sex and on religious or purity-based morality concerns. (guttmacher.org)
  • In societies where mutual aid between family members is crucial and widespread, a child's homosexuality presents no obstacle to relationships of support and exchange between family members. (booksandideas.net)
  • At the same time, widespread support for including information on contraception and STD protection in sex education curricula has been documented among American adults, voters, parents, students, teachers and health professionals, nationally and in diverse regions of the country. (guttmacher.org)
  • They hoped that demonstrating a biological basis to homosexuality would have beneficial effects such as increasing tolerance of gay people. (wikipedia.org)
  • A growing body of scientific analysis demonstrates that both men and women may have similar biological produce their homosexuality. (kkbsshipping.com)
  • In response to these findings, the Association issued a resolution, which stated that portraying homosexuality as a mental illness should instead give way to psychotherapy, social support, and educational services. (nysenate.gov)
  • Addressing the first question, Courduriès demonstrates that, increased tolerance notwithstanding, some families continue to reject homosexuality at a visceral level when it concerns their own children. (booksandideas.net)
  • Overall,89%of parents reported a preference for comprehensive sex education, and11%for abstinence-only education. (guttmacher.org)
  • 1-6 Despite such support, much of the sex education provided by American schools is minimal and fragmented, with essential topics often omitted or inaccurately presented, especially those related to methods of contraception and STD protection for sexually active youth. (guttmacher.org)
  • The California Education Code supports the inclusion of contraception and STD protection in sex education curricula, yet implementation at the local school district level remains challenging. (guttmacher.org)
  • This mechanism, called antagonistic pleiotropy, might maintain genes that increase the risk for homosexuality because they increase the number of sex partners in the relatives of homosexuals. (musingsone.com)
  • The second positive factor is a perfectly proper reluctance on the part of the Church to involve the civil authority in internal Church affairs. (catholic.com)
  • They are sexually active and about half of these activities involve same-sex partners. (profolus.com)
  • They also see the gay gene explanation as a useful defence against the arguments of the religious right, which dismisses same-sex relationships as a lifestyle choice. (spiked-online.com)
  • Finally, same-sex relationships rarely last and are often not monogamous. (answersingenesis.org)
  • While in recent years there has been more and more research on homosexuality, much of it explores relationships, sexuality, access to parenthood, and lifestyle. (booksandideas.net)
  • Erikson, however, did not find evidence to support the notion that a girl's consciousness of her sex was centered on a missing penis. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Use of surveillance data for this purpose is limited because risk classifications exclude same-gender sex among women or subsume it under behaviors considered as higher risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Attempts to use national or local surveillance data to estimate the risk for STI transmission between women are limited by the fact that many risk classification schemes have either excluded same-gender sex among women or subsumed it under a hierarchy of other behaviors viewed as higher risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Dieser said that he used to think that homosexuality was a "limitation in male or female identity," that "young people" have changed his mind, and that he learned that his old views are not "theologically binding. (lifesitenews.com)
  • A similar hypothesis (that applies to either male or female homosexuality) is suggested by Zietsch et al. (musingsone.com)
  • Background Female sex workers (FSWs) are more likely to be infected by Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than the general population. (bvsalud.org)
  • In other words, though hostile antagonism toward homosexuals still exists in many corners of our society, almost no one would deny that the predominant national policy in our culture today is that homosexuality is normal, healthy, and amoral. (ac3.org)
  • Few studies analyze kinship itself, asking whether homosexuality transforms-and if so, to what extent-the kinship system existing in European and American societies, despite the fact that this question has, at the same moment, triggered vigorous ideological debates within society. (booksandideas.net)
  • Policy debates over the merits of abstinence-only versus comprehensive approaches to sex education are ongoing, despite well-documented public support for comprehensive sex education. (guttmacher.org)
  • It might therefore be the case that some Asian lesbianisms, homosexualities and transgender identities are more assertive in articulating their specificity than others. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • Adult men who have sex with women play a major role in HIV transmission. (nih.gov)
  • It is remarkable that white is one of the most studied genes in man's quest to understand genetic control and function in Drosophila (described in 1910 by Thomas Hunt Morgan as the first example of sex-linked inheritance in flies) and yet this phenomenon had not previously been reported. (nybooks.com)
  • The genes influencing homosexuality have two effects. (musingsone.com)
  • First, and most obviously, these genes increase the risk for homosexuality, which ostensibly has decreased Darwinian fitness. (musingsone.com)
  • Countervailing this, however, these same genes appear to increase sex-atypical gender identity, which our results suggest may increase mating success in heterosexuals. (musingsone.com)
  • Epigenetics relates to the influence of environmental factors on genes, either in the uterus or after birth. (iflscience.com)
  • Erikson's theories in this area matched the sex stereotypes prevalent at the time he developed his theory. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Now those who want to argue that this text is vague in meaning, begin by stating that the phrase "have sex with them" is more literally rendered from the Hebrew as "that we may know them. (adw.org)
  • Erikson thought that women's awareness of their reproductive potential has an impact on how they grow, and he highlighted a woman's capacity to bear children as a major personality factor. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Human Rights Watch interviewed 52 people, including 25 women, arrested for suspected drug use, sex work, or homosexuality over the past five years whom ISF members had threatened, humiliated, or tortured. (hrw.org)
  • The most exploited are those involved in commercial sex, especially young women and underage girls. (counterpunch.org)
  • Unfortunately, the true number of people trafficked in the sex trade, especially young women, is difficult to determine. (counterpunch.org)
  • Education of lesbians and their care providers should counter assumptions that sex between women confers no risk of transmission of sexually transmitted infections, and lesbians should receive Pap smears according to current guidelines. (cdc.gov)
  • This is not the first time that Dieser expressed his view that homosexuality is "willed by God. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Although most American students receive some type of sex education by the time they leave high school, 4 only about 5-10% receive complete and high-quality comprehensive sex education. (guttmacher.org)
  • While the evidence for King James's homosexuality is shaky at best, the editors of this "translation" have only made a mockery of a beloved Bible translation. (answersingenesis.org)
  • In ancient Egypt, where sex and religion were closely inter-twined, there is evidence that the gods were thought to have engaged in homo-eroticism. (geocities.ws)
  • These findings contribute to the notion that although homosexuality can be inherited, this does not occur according to the rules of classical genetics. (iflscience.com)
  • Perhaps my link below from the World Heart Organization can educate you Paul so you don't keep equating Homosexuality, which is a genetic trait that isn't inherently dangerous to your health and well-being, to a disease, obesity, which is inherently so dangerous that it will take away your health, well-being and then eventually kill you. (queerty.com)
  • or if those of us who point out the large role homosexuality has played in this abuse were not excoriated for daring to suggest there is anything disordered about homosexuality. (catholic.com)
  • This community also demonstrated a population significant enough to warrant attention. (infantilism.org)
  • Cost, HIV/AIDS knowledge and fear of discrimination are significant predicting factors of willingness to use HIV PrEP and should be considered when formulating PrEP policy. (bvsalud.org)
  • This allowed us to explore the effect of relatedness (heritability) on their behaviour, taking into account other factors that could influence the results, such as age and social group structure. (theconversation.com)
  • These fairy tales are important to the anti-gay right because they form the basis of its claim that homosexuality is a social evil that must be suppressed - an opinion rejected by virtually all relevant medical and scientific authorities. (splcenter.org)
  • Social and economic factors such as poverty, unemployment, racism and lack of access to care are issues that affect the health and well being of black gay men. (gaycitynews.com)