Health and Human Sexuality
The place of the homosexual person in today's society has become an electrically charged breeding ground for misunderstanding, emotional sound bites, and political rhetoric. The appearance of increasing numbers of television shows which address homosexual issues makes it apparent that societies perspective on this subject is also up for grabs, and being competed for heavily in the public marketplace. At issue, or what appears to be at issue from this writers perspective is the level to which society will accept persons with same gender sexual orientation, and what kind of social and emotional support and aid will be of help to these individuals.
However, deeper at the core of this debate seems to be a level of malevolence which the gay person perceives to be directed against themselves whenever someone questions their sexual orientation. In the public debate, whenever a person or organization suggests that homosexual behavior and desires may be a departure of the normal path of human behaviors, the person is labeled a homo-phobe, someone who had outdated information, and would otherwise be attacked and degraded for his own personal ideas. Since these accusations originate from a group of people who themselves seek to have equal treatment for their own individual and personal perspectives on behavior, their attacks only serve to cloud the issues which may be at the core of finding a lasting positive approach to helping homosexual individual understand the positively address their person preferences.
In a recent article in Family Process, a multidisciplinary international journal that publishes research, training, and theoretical contributions in the broad area of family therapy, authors Elizur and Ziv noted that gay, Lesbian and Bisexual (GLB) youth are at greater risk for major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse and dependence, multiple disorders, suicidal behaviors, sexual risk-taking, and poor general health maintenance than are their heterosexual peers. Citing a wealth of literature, they concluded that a number of these large community-based surveys provide solid empirical evidence that sexual minority status are a significant risk factor for GLB adolescents' physical and mental health. Their health risks include significant increases in the estimates of suicide attempts, which could be up to 30% higher based on one sample of gay male youth to 42% of GLB youth sampled in non-clinical community settings from regions across the U.S.
Given the depth of the measured psychological problems which are present in this sector of the population, perhaps the source of this problem is not in the widespread community, and their feelings toward GLB youth. Although the direction of the public debate has been successfully shifted from one of the GLB's personal responsibility for their feelings to an assumed causal connection between the heterosexual communities attitudes toward gay's and the associated negative self-esteem which is present, this assumption is made for the benefit of homosexual individuals. It seems to this writer that even though the direction of the public debate has accepted that issues of homosexual adjustment into the large community is a function of the community's homophobia, and this article which seeks to support this assumption may offer strong evidence to the contrary.
The personal maladjustment of the GLB youth may indeed be most significantly affected by the youth's own psychological development.
In no other sector of the larger community is the topic of personal adjustment and membership in the community perceived as a causal relationship between the individual and the community, and then responsibility laid at the feet of the larger community. In no other sector of the community is the presence of significant emotional distress within the individual, which has been documented within the GLB youth and discussed in this article, assigned to the responsibility of the community in which the person resides. When a heterosexual teen has a drinking problem, or displays suicidal tendencies, their feelings, choices, and tendencies are not blamed on the larger society. The individual person is treated, and what is most often at the cause of the problem are personal and relationship issues between the person, their primary family, and the social support system in which the person is immersed. Research and practice shows that at the core of the demonstrated maladjustment between the individual and the larger social order are issues with the individual which much be addressed and corrected in order for the individual make a successful and confident integration into the larger community.
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