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The paper needs to be from a SOCIOLOGICAL perspective.  This is not a psychology class.  Please remember that when you are doing your research.  Utilize sociological journals, not psych journals!

I have included sources and main ideas from the articles below:

Articles/Resources:

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2631831818822017

  • Keya Des explains, “…sexuality is constructed upon individuals’ sexual orientation that is their emotional and sexual attraction to particular genders. Sexuality broadly encompasses the biological, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects…” It is important to understand the concept of sexuality as it corresponded the impact and shifts it has on Hinduism.

  • Hinduism culture values sex functions as strengthening bonds and as an instrument for intimacy. It is viewed as wedlock as a holy rite. Hinduism also views sexual passion as powerful with the capacity to overturn righteous behavior which can result in bad karma.

  • Once a marriage has produced a son, sex must be relinquished.

  • Indulgence in pornography or sexual is also to be avoided in order to keep clear of desire.

  • Homosexuals having existed even in ancient India and being depicted often in ancient literature never secured a social validation in any fraction of the Indian society.

• https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-hinduism

  • Hinduism accounts for roughly 14% of the global population, with approximately 2 million Hindus living in the United States.

  • ​​Hindu sacred texts, however, do not distinguish between heterosexual and homosexual acts.

  • Because there is no central Hindu authority, attitudes to LGBTQ issues vary at different temples and ashrams.

  • The Vedas refer to a “third sex,” roughly defined as people for whom sex is not procreative, either through impotence or a lack of desire for the opposite sex.

• https://www.galva108.org/single-post/2014/05/15/homosexuality-hinduism-the-third-gender-a-summary

  • Ancient Hindu scriptures have much to say about homosexuality, both explicitly and as part of a broader third-gender category that includes all types of people described as impotent with the opposite sex.

  • Hinduism honors the two primary genders—potent males (pums) and fertile females (stri)—but also acknowledges a third, less common sex (tritiya-prakriti or napumsa) considered to be a natural combination of the male and female natures resulting in impotence.

  • Another role held by homosexuals, transgenders, and other third-gender people in traditional Hindu society was their special nonprocreative status and association with supernatural powers.  Revered astrological and omen-reading texts such as the Brihat Jataka and Brihat Samhita all mention planetary alignments at the time of conception that indicates a third-gender birth.

• Extra resources:

  • https://www.hinduamerican.org/

  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zw8qn39/revision/5