Is homosexuality a mental illness?

Question

I saw somewhere on the news, that some doctors and scientist is trying to prove this theory, can it be true?

Answer 1

No,
but,
Believing that it is - IS !!!

(answered by a hetero)

Answer 2

homosexuality is a sexual preference just as pedophelia is a preference. It is what you have learned to like. It is a taste you have cultivated.
This behaviour is triggered by an experience or catalyst of a certain type. Because it plays out in your mind during the catalyst or initial exposure or experience, you could say in that respect that it is a mental function, the illness part is debatable. It is a deviation, although this statement is not politically correct in today's day and age.
It is a behaviour that must be practiced and someone somehwere (including media) has to introduce you to it in some way. It is not a naturally occurring behaviour as many falsely believe. I will say this,.... after so many generations of homosexuality over thousands of years, it may be scientifically possible that we humans have rewritten our genetic code and some blood lines may actually have and are passing on the homosexual mutation in our time.
However, as of today, It has never been proven scientifically to be a natural genetic occurrance. Homosexuality must be learned and then cultivated.

Answer 3

Think about the way you feel when you're looking at an attractive member of the opposite sex. It's that way for them, only with the same sex. It's not a choice and I can't see it being a mental illness. And seeing as how almost every medical association says it's not, well...........

Alexander the Great was a homo, lots of famous people from all walks of life, from all different periods in history have been gay. People just need to grow up, open their eyes and stop being so
fu(king ignorant.

I'm not gay, and I find the act of two men kissing (or doing anything else) really gross. But I still don't justfiy my uneasyness with it by calling it a mental illness!

Answer 4

Giving homosexuality a title like "mental illness" seems so... disrespectful. There are many different answers to the question of how people become homosexual (or heterosexual for that matter), but I don't think it's a mental illness by any means. A natural predisposition maybe, but not an illness.

Answer 5

of course not
homosexuality is ones choice
i cant believe the maturity of some of u people
there is nothing rong with being gay
if being homo makes u mentally ill then liking a different flavor of ice cream than somebody else is a mental illness
if it was i promise u that it would have been proved along time ago
this question here just shows how many stereotypical people r actually out there
i cant believe some of these answers

Answer 6

No.
is spirit illness.
and it is physic too.
people get familiar with that practice and for the most is very difficult to stop. So, gay people say that God made them that way or that is natural or what ever excuses, but the true is in the first two chapters of the book of Romans in the Bible. (read it)
There is people that have sex relation with animals, what do they said about it, are they going to make parades and ask the government to let them marry a horse?

WHAT'S NEXT?

Sometimes a real miracle is needed.
To Born again is a miracle.

They need Jesus.

Answer 7

It's not a mental illness. Both the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association took it out of the mental illness category many, many years ago. Most people that have problems with homosexuals seem to be either uneducated, ignorant or "up to their ears" in some sort of extreme religious belief system.
Most of the "Bible Bashers" are very good at using their judgment, seeing the "gray area", in other so called "sins"...for example it's said to be a sin and very wrong to kill someone, however these people seem to be perfectly ok with killing certain types of criminals and ok with killing others at war time. Even telling a lie is supposed to be a sin. However there are certain times that a person may lie to keep from hurting another's feelings...again we see a "gray area". Dealing with homosexuals however, that's another story. Homosexuality has no gray area; it's a sentence to hell, period.
I don't consider homosexuality to be a sin, as a matter of fact I don't believe in "sin" as such. I do believe in mistakes and I believe that we are all responsible for our own conduct. Homosexuality and poor conduct are two very different things. I have been with my partner for 10 years and we have a 9-year-old son. We are a family and conduct ourselves as a family...school, homework, work, house, dog, vacation...you get the picture. Both of us are college educated and our son is an honor student...which makes us very proud. Really the only thing that makes us different from our next door neighbors is that we are two men and they are not.

People need to stop getting caught up with the gay stereotype and stop being so interested in what we are doing in the privacy of our own bedrooms.... Which consists mostly of sleeping...trust me. LOL!
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Lisa E says:
I think it's one of those, "heyi wanna try it out for awhile, hey I kinda like it, it's different sort of things".....

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Lisa, honey. Please just STOP thinking...ok. I sometimes wonder if being stupid is a mental Illness.

Answer 8

no it is not a mental illness! unfortunately, there are still some scientists and others out there, that no matter how intelligent or 'book smart' they are are just still too dumb and opionated to see that. it's simply the way ur born, just as blue eyes or brown hair, nothing u can do about it, it's just a part of who someone is. no one gets 'bashed' for having brown hair or blue eyes, but people are still very closed minded about homosexuality. if u don't understand how or why two people of the same gender could be attracted to each other, that's fine, but u shouldn't put someone down just because of who they choose to be with behind closed doors! and it's extremely aggravating that men can say that two men together is just gross and two women together is just beautiful and sexy! i am a straight female, i have never had any desire to be with a woman, but i have no problem finding another woman to be cute or attractive. i also see nothing wrong with finding the one your meant to be with and being with them no matter what color, sex, religion, etc...............love the one your with! no one should allow others immature and closed minded views dictate what they do behind closed doors!

Answer 9

The psychiatric community took homosexuality out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) so no it is not a mental illness.

Answer 10

No, absolutely not especially nowadays. ( I am not gay).
1. People are free to choose the one who s/he loves the most to live with. So it is not neccessary that they have to choose the opposite sex to live with unless they want to have offspring. Then it is another issue. But today having one's offspring is easy.They can pay for someone to have it.

2.Everyone wish to have happiness in ones life . So if they can't find the one who s/he loves in the opposite sex then why shouldn't one find one in the same sex. It harms no one and it won't affect others .

3.I am not a religious person. So I think everyone is free to do what one likes as long as it doesn't affect others. eg. if you like sports crazily and I like drawing madly . Are we having metal illness? Need we go and see the doctor? Or should I change my interest to yours and yours to mine? Will you be happy if I force you to love what you don't ? Another example, if you need to buy some meat preferably beef to make stock, but you can't find any fresh beef in the market, but you see a fine pork ,what should you do ? Give up or choose pork instead?

3. In this busy and competitive society. All people, to some extent, have some pressure at work or at home . So it is very important to have someone you love and trust to discuss your problems,even though s/he is the same sex. Therefore in order to make yourself live happier and healthier ,you shouldn't care too much about it. And I don't think it is related to metal illness. Don't be ignorant and closed mind. Remember it is the year of "2006 "and not "206". Everything is changing and so are our thoughts.

Answer 11

Yes I think it is a mental illness. I think that with homosexual people, that something went wrong in the genetic make up of that person. It's JUST NOT NATURAL for 2 of the same sex to have sex, I don't care what anyone says.