Types of Homosexuals Theory of Homosexuality
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The same statement which is stated by Carroll in his book, Mental Hygiene Caroll, 1961: 69, one of causation of homosexuality is persistent failure during
adolescence to establish satisfactory social and emotional heterosexual relationships- for women is from fear-producing experience with a man.
ii Homosexual experience and its positive reinforcement
“The development of homosexuality is frequently associated with pleasant homosexual experiences during adolescence or early adulthood.” Coleman, 1976:
595. This pleasant impression may be led to later homosexual life-style if it is “reinforced by pleasurable repetition andor meet biological and emotional needs”
Coleman, 1976: 595. Meaning to say that once an individual experiences a pleasant homosexual experience and gets its positive reinforcement in his adolescence or early
adulthood which he cannot get from heterosexual relationship, he tends to become a homosexual after that.
iii Family patterns
In a study of 106 male homosexuals who were undergoing psychoanalysis found a common family pattern involving a dominant and seductive mother and a
weak or absent father Coleman 1976: 596. iv
General sociocultural factors A variety of sociocultural factors might influence the incidence of homosexual
and other unconventional life-styles. Sociocultural factors in one place might different from another. For example, among certain primitive groups living in areas
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with limited resources, homosexuality has actually encouraged to help control the population of the groups.
c Interactionist Factor
This factor draws upon both biological and pychosocial factors in the belief that some combination of chemistry’s body and environmental factors account for the
development of homosexual behaviors. From all the theories that has been explained above, it shows that the causal
factor of Otoko’s homosexuality is psychosocial factor which consists of negative conditioning of heterosexual behavior when she is relationship with Oki and
homosexual experience and its positive reinforcement when she is in relationship with Keiko.