Delta4Embassy
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While the behaviours or sex acts has existed all along, it wasn't until someone coined the terms and described them in a scientific context that they really took hold. And because of current debates on homosexuality vs heterosexuality it's important to understand the historical context they first appeared in, and were used as.
Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Krafft-Ebing considered procreation the purpose of sexual desire and that any form of recreational sex was a perversion of the sex drive. "With opportunity for the natural satisfaction of the sexual instinct, every expression of it that does not correspond with the purpose of nature—i.e., propagation,—must be regarded as perverse."[3] Hence, he concluded that homosexuals suffered a degree of sexual perversion because homosexual practices could not result in procreation. In some cases, homosexual libido was classified as a moral vice induced by the early practice of masturbation.[4] Krafft-Ebing proposed a theory of homosexuality as biologically anomalous and originating in the embryonic and fetal stages of gestation, which evolved into a "sexual inversion" of the brain. In 1901, in an article in the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen (Yearbook of Sexual Intermediate Stages), he changed the biological term from anomaly to differentiation.
Although the primary focus is on sexual behavior in men, there are sections on Sadism in Woman, Masochism in Woman, and Lesbian Love. Several of the cases of sexual activity with children were committed by women.
Krafft-Ebing’s conclusions about homosexuality are now largely forgotten, partly because Sigmund Freud’s theories were more interesting to physicians (who considered homosexuality to be a psychological problem) and partly because he incurred the enmity of the Austrian Catholic Church when he psychologically associated martyrdom (a desire for sanctity) with hysteria and masochism. Moreover, in a footnote added to the 1915 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Sigmund Freud urged that homosexuals not be segregated from mainstream society."
My own personal hypothesis is heterosexuality, homosexuality, etc. don't literally exist in nature but are instead terms we use for ease of reference to those specific sexual behaviours. But just as a man who identifies as heterosexual can nonetheless have homosexual sex for various reaosn like incarceration and 'making due,' or for money as seen frequently in 'gay' pornography, or because he was intoxicated and absent his inhibitions 'experimented' the same is true of those identifying as homosexuals. In other words, the terms don't bind us to a course of action and can change instantly and become the new definition of a person's sexuality, or be very short-term and temporary changes.
Idea of a fixed unchangeable sexual orientation is further clouded by how other cultures define those terms. In the US we say the action defines the orientation as if a man has a sexual encounter with another man he must be a gay man. Yet in most of the world the specific role of either man changes the description of his sexuality. A man who penetrates another man may be considered straight, whereas the one being penetrated the gay man.
Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Krafft-Ebing considered procreation the purpose of sexual desire and that any form of recreational sex was a perversion of the sex drive. "With opportunity for the natural satisfaction of the sexual instinct, every expression of it that does not correspond with the purpose of nature—i.e., propagation,—must be regarded as perverse."[3] Hence, he concluded that homosexuals suffered a degree of sexual perversion because homosexual practices could not result in procreation. In some cases, homosexual libido was classified as a moral vice induced by the early practice of masturbation.[4] Krafft-Ebing proposed a theory of homosexuality as biologically anomalous and originating in the embryonic and fetal stages of gestation, which evolved into a "sexual inversion" of the brain. In 1901, in an article in the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen (Yearbook of Sexual Intermediate Stages), he changed the biological term from anomaly to differentiation.
Although the primary focus is on sexual behavior in men, there are sections on Sadism in Woman, Masochism in Woman, and Lesbian Love. Several of the cases of sexual activity with children were committed by women.
Krafft-Ebing’s conclusions about homosexuality are now largely forgotten, partly because Sigmund Freud’s theories were more interesting to physicians (who considered homosexuality to be a psychological problem) and partly because he incurred the enmity of the Austrian Catholic Church when he psychologically associated martyrdom (a desire for sanctity) with hysteria and masochism. Moreover, in a footnote added to the 1915 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Sigmund Freud urged that homosexuals not be segregated from mainstream society."
My own personal hypothesis is heterosexuality, homosexuality, etc. don't literally exist in nature but are instead terms we use for ease of reference to those specific sexual behaviours. But just as a man who identifies as heterosexual can nonetheless have homosexual sex for various reaosn like incarceration and 'making due,' or for money as seen frequently in 'gay' pornography, or because he was intoxicated and absent his inhibitions 'experimented' the same is true of those identifying as homosexuals. In other words, the terms don't bind us to a course of action and can change instantly and become the new definition of a person's sexuality, or be very short-term and temporary changes.
Idea of a fixed unchangeable sexual orientation is further clouded by how other cultures define those terms. In the US we say the action defines the orientation as if a man has a sexual encounter with another man he must be a gay man. Yet in most of the world the specific role of either man changes the description of his sexuality. A man who penetrates another man may be considered straight, whereas the one being penetrated the gay man.
