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Preview: ... culture were, and largely still are, built on the foundations of the same religious teachings. The illegality of the very actions of homosexual behavior further drove this sexually orientated group into hiding, and instilled in them a belief that they themselves were somehow psychologically ill. According to Rathus (2005), the laws were based on the religious belief that any sexual acts not procreative between male-male, female-female, or male-female were believed sinful; therefore illegal. Historically, these beliefs and laws have promoted negative attitudes from the social majority toward gay men, and lesbian women (Rathus, 2005). Until recently, laws, social and religious beliefs have historically prevented homosexuals from “coming out” and announcing their sexual orientations. Religion and legality aside, exists other historical reasons gays were, and somewhat still are shunned, or unfairly treated by society. In many cultures, men-are-men, and women-are-women, raised in the beliefs that men provide security, women provide comfort while remaining sexually submissive to the needs of the usually physically dominant male. As cited by Trujillo, (1991) “Latino and Latina American heterosexual people view Latina American lesbians as threats to the tradition of male dominance” (Rathus, 2005, p. 301). This is not to say that all cultural societies condemn homosexual behaviors, a few encourage sexual relations between men and juvenile boys. Rathus relates the findin ...
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