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Homosexuality In Johnathan Tropper's The Book Of Joe

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The Book of Joe, by Johnathan Tropper addresses homosexuality as a conrupt illness that forcefully take the live of its patients. “Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, “ he offers with a wry grin, “Might well become one bitter fuck”(Tropper 232). The novel also portrarys homosexuality as being immoral. In previous years homosexual practices have been strongly discriminated against and seen as corrupt in the public eye. Although views of homosexuality vary from person to person homosexuality causes many cases of mental illnesses. Mental health concerns of homosexuality have become a major conflict in debates amongst society. …show more content…

Some think they were destined as an individual to have a sexual response the same sex. There is no proven evidence that any person is capable of being born homosexual; however, Scientists and Hormonal doctors have concluded a different opinion about these sexual acts. Some scientists believe that homosexuality is due to a shortage or over production of chromosomes. They also believe that homosexuality is a gene. In an article titled “The Life of the Gay Gene: From Hypothetical Genetic Marker to Social Reality”, by Kate O’Riordan, she studied an original scientific hypothesis performed by Hamer, Magnuson, and Pattatucci which shows, “that there is a correlation between the X chromosome genetic marker—Xq28—and gay male sexuality”(362). Spritiual guidence influences plays a big role in the process of an individual choosing their partner and the acceptance of homosexuals in a community. Varies cultures and religions believe homosexual practices are sinful and are total abomination in the eyes of their god. In the study titled “Role Flexing: How Community, Religion, and Family Shape the Experiences of Young Black Men Who Have Sex with

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He argues that the impact of distress or disability is readily apparent in diagnoses such as schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders, the same cannot be said of homosexuality. Homosexuality, as a general rule, does not create significant distress in the homosexual individual; although there are cases where the presence of a homosexual orientation is distressing to the individual—providing the impetus of later diagnoses of ego-dystonic sexual orientation—for the vast majority of homosexuals their orientation is not distressing. It is useful to compare this with the development of the DSM V diagnoses of gender dysphoria; previously Gender Identity Disorder, the gender dysphoria diagnosis underscores that the disorder is the distress caused by having a body that does not match the gender identity and not the cross-gender identity itself (American Psychiatric Association,

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