História da ciência e a diversidade de orientações sexuais
natureza, cultura e determinismo
Keywords:
determinism, sexual orientation, science historyAbstract
This article is a revi ew of how science has been treating the theme of the many existing sexual orientations. Sexual orientation, a peculiarly human pattern, is characterized by sexual behavior plus cognitive aspects related to sexual attraction, fantasies and desires. The attempts to explain this phenomenon has created arguments among biologists and psychologists, as the nature versus culture dispute. By the beginning of the twentieth century, cultural determinism of psychoanalysis was the basis for the explanation of sexual orientation. However, as decades went by, it lost ground for biological determinism, boosted by the biotechnological revolution.
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