Sociology

The busy day boils down to a time to relax and have a drink or two. It is on a Tuesday and everyone has been busy at the work place. In the evening after work, you can witness by the looks on their faces, how tired people are as they move with a lot of tire to the silent pubs, pubs with tranquility. Men walking into pubs and holding their lovers is what you can see in most cities when the evening catches. Perhaps, you may be in a position to see a group of homosexuals enjoying their time at bars specially made for them. Some cities have these types of bars where only homosexuals are allowed to visits. Well, on this day I was in a pub next to the homosexual bar trying to make some few observations on how people of different classes behave. I never went to the pub to specifically study the homosexuals but rather came as a coincident. My agenda in the pub was to study how people generally had a perception of alcoholism. Although alcoholism is a problem, very few drunkards accept this statement and are often found to drink more and more even when their bank accounts and credit cards are slimming. They will never agree that alcoholism is real even when they are going down with serious illnesses related to over consumption of alcohol.

Into the homosexual bar, walked two homosexuals. They were holding each other the similar way couples do. They seemed to have deep love as they were very free walking together and smiling to each other radiantly. As they came out from their Peugeot car, I noticed them as homosexuals. The man who was the woman was wearing bright colored suit with flower decorations at the breast pocket. This woman tended to seek protection and care from her man. This is a true indication of a homosexual relationship that existed among the couple. Homosexuals are common individuals in our every day lives (Griffin, 2002). People who are erotically attracted to individuals of same sex can be referred to as homosexuals. From the definition point, it is a general idea that even women getting attracted to other women are known as homosexuals. In our societies, these people are called lesbians and have been known and accepted in most communities.

A keen observation at the homosexuals shows that they are in love, the normal love experienced by the intimate relationship of a man and a woman. However, the concept of homosexuality has remained one of the most controversial one in the United States. The homosexuals are normal people but attempts to stop discrimination against them have hit a hard rock. This controversy has been caused by conservatives who retain that homosexuality is a chosen life and the scientists who have a contradicting evidence about the issue. At the same time, the Christians argue that the practice of homosexuality is not pleasing before God and often quote Biblical evidence to support their claims. From a biological point of view, the opponents of homosexuality claim that man is supposed to reproduce and maintain the species survival and thus the practice of homosexuality lacks the natural and evolutionary sense. Evolutionary scientists argue that homosexuality is a degeneracy concept and this idea is shared similarly among students learning criminology.

The scientific explanation of homosexuality has that the practice is an inborn sexual orientation and not as maintained by conservatives that it is a chosen style of life. The inborn sexual orientation among the homosexuals is similar to the heterosexuals and hence the homosexuals see nothing wrong in the practice. This then implies that homosexuality is a permanent phenomenon in the brain and cannot be avoided but instead the society should embrace it as to be adding value and variety in life (Livia, Hall, 2005). It comes clear to me that in deed homosexuality is a natural sexual orientation following the situation I saw the couple was in. they felt so natural and never showed to have any embarrassment or a sense of wrongdoing. Their love came out naturally and they had feelings to one another, only that both of them were men. The worrying issue is that which emanates from several believers in criminology that homosexuality is genetic throwback which makes people to behave like animals. The approach that sexuality is a free choice perhaps makes matters worse when trying to accept these types of individuals in our society. It is a general perception that homosexuality is given an evil outlook and since most people, the conservatives, believe that homosexuality is a free choice and the individuals concerned should be free to choose not to practice the same. This really means that a little exercise of the homosexuals willpower can greatly change their lifestyle of being homosexuals to heterosexuals. This argument is derived from the misleading scientific facts that homosexuality can be cured by behavioral therapy. To the best of my knowledge, homosexuality is not like any disorder like pain which can be treated by gulp some couple of analgesics. This same therapy, the behavioral therapy, has even been proved to be harmful to the homosexuals well-being. It has often turned out that the homosexuals who rush to see psychiatrists finally develop a condition called homophobia which becomes internalized in them.

An interesting explanation was brought into the limelight and ended up annoying a lot of homosexuals. This new explanation strives to explain the biological cause of homosexuality. This explanation points a finger at the hormonal imbalance at the point of gestation. This etiology seems to suggest that homosexuality is actually a deformity in the balance of hormones in the body of the homosexuals. The findings claim that in the fetal stage of development, the genes coding for some hormones have aberrations and therefore the gene products are not realized in the homosexuals (Gary, William, 1997). However, this claim seemed to support that homosexuality is not a matter of free choice but a permanent aspect in a human being which is beyond his control. At this stage I should say that there is no point of discriminating against homosexual individuals who are among us in our society. We should be ready to receive them as normal people in our social places like bars. It should not be that there is a separate place for them to have fun, far from the other members who are heterosexuals. The argument of prenatal factors leading to the aspect of homosexuality is supported by a number of scientists. Most of them argue that our sexual orientations, homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality are determined during the prenatal stages and also to a small extent, the postnatal stages. It is critical in the formation of a fully normal human being that sexual hormones be in place at the right time and any imbalance in this always leads to some complications. Scientists have uncovered that the human brain starts developing first as the female brain and further editing in the female brain forms a male brain. This argument welcomes the idea that the left hemisphere of the homosexuals lacks full differentiation and there is a lot of resembling in the female and male homosexual humans. The blamed hormone is testosterone which delays the differentiation and this imbalance can be caused by medicinal, nutritional and endocrine changes. Another factor during pregnancy can be maternal stress which may cause the delayed or no differentiation. The maternal release or secretion of testosterone into the bloodstream can be reduced during stress and cause a major hormonal imbalance leading to the condition of homosexuality. Studies in rats have shown that when stress in induced during prenatal stages, the adult males so produced have been seen to be demasculinized and feminized sexual orientation (Griffin, 2002). In normal development, there should be a peak in fetal male plasma testosterone which usually happens between the 17th and 18th day after conception. In stress cases, there is a sharp decline in the levels of testosterone.

The men who were walking into the homosexual pub do not have to be treated with discrimination. Although we may say they have chosen the life of homosexuality, to some extent we can say that it is natural and they have little control over the whole situation. What is important is to accept them in the society and ensure that they feel accommodated.