Were you wrong?

By nightloveblog on May 8, 2013

To put it mildly, in our society people with non-traditional orientations are treated very unkindly. Not many people have enough courage to tell others about their feelings. There are many myths about homosexual couples – they aren’t considered to have stable long-lasting relationships or to be good parents. But this is far from reality. Homosexual relationships aren’t that different from heterosexual ones.

1. All animals are straight.

In spite of the popular belief that couples of different sexes are the only natural variant, the animal world turns out to have a lot of examples of homosexual couples. Penguins, bisons, dolphins, giraffes, swans and chimps – are just a few examples of those species that sometimes make non-traditional couples.

Scientists are still trying to find those evolutionary reasons (if there are any) which make animals have same-sex relationships, because as a result they don’t produce any offspring. Some scientists think that it contributes to the strengthening of social of social relations. Janet Mann (a professional biologist at Georgetown University) says that not every sexual intercourse has a reproductive function.

2. Non-traditional sex relationships don’t last long

The research has shown that this belief isn’t true. Gay partners’ relationships are as stable as those of straight couples.

There’s much evidence that people of homosexual orientation just as straight couples want to have strong, long-lasting, perfect relationships and are successful having such, in spite of all the difficulties created by social prejudices and the absence of their legal recognition.

For example, scientists from Washington University have studied homosexual partners 12 years after their formation and discovered that 20 % of them broke up at this time. This percentage is less than the same figures for straight couples during the same period of time.

3. Most pedophiles are gays.

The most improbable myth is that most people sexually abusing children are gays. A lot of researchers have studied this question to see whether homosexual men have more chances of becoming pedophiles than heterosexual men. The research showed that it’s not so.

In the research conducted by the Institute of Psychology in Canada in 1989 the scientists were showing photographs of children to mature homosexual and straight men and were measuring their sexual arousal. Homosexual men’s reaction wasn’t any different from that of heterosexual men to female pictures.

Empirical studies have also shown that people with non-traditional sexual orientation more often hit on children than homosexual men.

4. Homosexuals are bad parents.

Many of those against same-sex marriages talk about the bad influence same-sex partners have on children and say that a child needs both a mother and a father to grow up and be a healthy adult. Although the research shows that same-sex parents’ children develop very well. Teenagers in same-sex families generally have higher marks at school than their classmates from heterosexual families. One more research has shown that such children from same-sex couples no more often than their peers commit such misdemeanors as thefts, robberies and fights.