ABSTRACT
Experts should be investigating the etiology of the fear and repression of homosexuality. When the psychological and social factors are discovered, then perhaps a cure can be developed not for homosexuality but for the animosity that it evokes. Advances in biochemistry and genetics contribute to increasingly complex etiologic discourses. This chapter is a gloss on the putative causes of homosexuality, but it does not enter deeply into the arcana of biomolecular and other theories, especially like the director of the Kinsey Institute, concede "we are very much in the dark" about the etiology of gender and sexual orientation. It deals with the origin of same-gender sexual desire. John Money proposes that the sex-role behaviors of some hermaphrodites prove that the same hormones that control the development of internal and external sex organs influence the brain.
