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Overview
The Hidden Cause of Homosexuality · Dr. Alaa Alsalem
Homosexuality in Brief
Homosexuality is an intense and continuous psychological attraction towards a person of the same sex, usually leading to sexual intercourse.
It used to be considered a mental illness, perversion, and abnormality. Today, many factors have contributed to the global wave of homosexuality sweeping many countries worldwide, especially after the relentless attempts to find a scientific justification for it.
A glance at the history of homosexuality sufficiently reveals the official position (both scientific and religious) that, until relatively recently, rejected it, considering it a disease and a psychological disorder with negative and dangerous consequences, which required treatment and even a binding legal deterrent.
However, in or just before the last quarter of the previous century, the first attempts to reverse the rejection of homosexuality began. In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).3 Then the rest of the major international mental health institutions followed the same path until the matter reached the World Health Organization, which, on May 17, 1990, announced the removal of homosexuality from the list of Mental Disorders.4
This removal paved the way for classifying homosexuality as a natural human sexual practice. Homosexuality's long period of being classified as a perversion and disease had come to an end. Later, May 17th became the annual international day for homosexuals called "International Day Against Homophobia," celebrated worldwide just as women, mothers, children, laborers, or others celebrate their international day.
Some went too far by turning the tables on this issue and accused those against homosexuality of mental illness!
Dr. Emmanuele A. Jannini (Professor of Endocrinology and Sexual Medicine, University of Rome) said in his study in 2015: “Homophobia is but an indication (a sign) linked to some personality characteristics, which, if combined with violence it can be classified as a psychiatric disease.”5
As expected, the actions taken by the world's mental health institutions have heavily contributed to the acceptance of homosexuality. This change of opinion (of both the elites and the masses) has a cause worthy of interest, research, and study.
According to a Gallup poll in May 2018, the proportion of Americans against same-sex marriage in 1996 was 68% versus 27% in favor. In 2018, the percentage was reversed, with supporters of same-sex marriage at 67% to 31% opposed.6
When did the demand to legally recognize homosexual relationships begin?
In its April 2013 issue, Harvard Magazine published an article by American legal historian Michael Klarman, in which he said: "Only in the late 1980s did activists begin to pursue legal recognition of [gay rights] and relationships,"7 but people of that time did not widely welcome it.