Shitting on globohomo is worth the ban
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Calling homosexuality mental illness might be going too far. If I have sex with a lot of prostitutes and that ends up correlating with higher rates of STD infection and lack of self control from hedonistic habituation, am I mentally ill or just choosing debauchery?
Homosexuality has a psychological origin, to be sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a mental illness. Every degenerate behavior that breeds rotten fruits isn't mental illness. One can't explain away degeneracy that way: it strips agency and responsibility from those who do wrong.
But how did they start? There are young men who are only attracted to men. Were they all molested? If not, you might classify it as a mental illness. Then choosing the path of degeneracy made it worse.
There is a paper online called "on the psychogenesis of homosexuality." It synthesizes what is known about the phenomenon.
I agree, and will go further: The term "mental illness" suggests that insanity has somatic causes when it doesn't, with the possible exception of schizophrenia.
See Thomas Szasz, "The Myth of Mental Illness."
Or is it a parasite? What behaviors lend itself to infection? What is the life cycle? How do parasites control their host? Look into toxoplasmosis. It has been studied that toxoplasmosis in mice causes their fear of cats to dissipate because the intestine of cats is the perfect environment for a stage in their life cycle. Mouse mind control. Fascinating stuff.