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Summary Response to Michael Levin's Homosexuality is Abnormal

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This 275-word essay is a response to Michael Levin's Homosexuality is Abnormal. Points discussed: homosexual and heterosexual intercourse, immorality, unhappiness, etc

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Philosophy 320

Professor Galloway

11/30/2017

Homosexuality is Abnormal

Michael Levin discusses the biological nature of humans in his piece, Why

Homosexuality is Abnormal. He explains that it is humans underwent the process of natural

selection that brought them to a point where inserting a penis into a vagina became the normal

and most selected-for process in sex. The reason for this selection, he claims, is because it is the

only way to reproduce and further the human race. He then goes on to say to say that because

of this fact, any human that does not partake in heterosexual intercourse, is not only unnatural

and wrong but will be doomed to a life of unhappiness.

I wonder if he would make the same claim regarding monks, priests and nuns. Are they

unhappy and abnormal, simply because they’re choosing not to use their sexual organs for

heterosexual intercourse? Who’s to judge a person’s happiness? Happiness is not quantifiable

and there are many factors that play into it. Where did Michael Levin attain the power to zero

in on one factor and then compare this happiness to those of heterosexuals?

I think there’s something to say for the evidence that there seems to be a chemical

imbalance in the brains of homosexuals. Many studies suggest that homosexuality is not a

choice and that often homosexual people can’t imagine being heterosexual even if they wanted

to. Would Michael Levin use the same argument for other chemical imbalances people are born

with that cause them to live certain ways such as depression or ADHD? Levin’s argument seems

pretty flawed based on his conclusion that homosexual sex leads to a life of unhappiness.

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