INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
B.A.GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLEMENT OF THE COURSE
SKILLS FOR CONTEXT AND CONTENT ANALYSIS
SUBBMITTED TO
MRS. GOSSE
BY
CRYSTAL FRANCIS
DATE: JULY 09, 2015
Crystal Francis International University of the Caribbean (Swaby Regional Campus)
St. Mary.
Homosexuality is sometimes a learned behaviour. However behaviourist’s explained that for homosexuality, person had been exposed to factors that contribute to homosexuality. Therefore, a person becomes homosexual if the first sexual experience had been with a person of the same sex. However, if the sexual experience had been negative the person would tend to turn to the opposite sex. According to (BBC news.com, 2014). In recent years homosexuality was illegal where as many countries would treat these same sex relationships differently, such as having an unequal age of consent or a ban on marriage. Regardless of what you think, feel, or believe about the place same-sex marriage has in the United States, you must now live in the reality that it legal.
Despite the fact that humans have never limited their sexual pleasure to what we now call heterosexual intercourse, the history of homosexuality is relatively short (Ford, 2013). The genital anatomy of one's partners-or what Freud calls one's "object choice"-did not become the definitive criterion for distinguishing homosexual and heterosexual selves until the last third of the nineteenth century(Ford, 2013). During the 1860's and 70's European public administrators began noticing that some people were organizing their lives not around family, household, and reproduction but around various forms of sexual pleasure (Ford, 2013). This was probably a recent phenomenon made possible by the forces of capitalism, which tended to draw people off the land into cities away from their parishes and families and to reduce the importance of arranged