Is there a difference between heterosexual love and homosexual love?
- Love is love: The experience of love, regardless of sexual orientation, is fundamentally similar. It involves attachment, intimacy, and emotional connection.
- Scientific evidence: Research consistently indicates that the brain processes love in similar ways for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation.
- Societal norms: While societal norms have historically shaped how love is understood, these norms are shifting, and a growing body of research supports the idea that love is a universal human experience.
- Individual differences: While there are similarities in the experience of love, individuals vary in how they express and experience it, regardless of their sexual orientation.
- Focus on connection: Rather than dwelling on differences, focus on the shared humanity and the profound connection experienced in all loving relationships.
https://www.apa.org/topics/sexual-orientation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220331/
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Heterosexual and homosexual love: the important thing is to experience love between two people
Despite the various strides we have made and that have been made by experts in the field such as psychologists and sexologists, we still live in a society in which sexuality is still, still, a taboo. “And the taboo is difficult to break because there are so many facets and so many aspects involving cultural, political, and certainly even religious dimensions (of various religious affiliations) that sometimes impose regulations that go beyond the principle both biological and cultural and social of every human being,” comments the Dr. Fabrizio Quattrini, psychologist, psychotherapist and sexologist.
The origin of feelings: heterosexual and homosexual love
Various studies conducted over the years affirm that every person is born bisexual and only later, as he or she grows up, becomes self-aware of his or her own sexual pleasure and orientation. We can talk about epigenetics, in which environmental factors, including physical and chemical agents, together with familial factors, can influence and partly modify genetic expression without changing the DNA sequence.
“I have always been convinced and continue to be convinced: we are born with a bisexual potentiality and the fact of being attracted toward one sex rather than the other is nothing more than a condition associated with one’s background and where one grew up” comments Dr. Fabrizio Quattrini.
The expression of sexual orientation develops purely in developmental age, especially in puberty and adolescence. “Clearly, biology points to a heterosexual dimension, but sexuality is not just a biological behavior as an end in itself, it has to do with so many nuances. One is born bisexual as a basis for then being able to be attracted either to both sexes, and thus remain in a bisexual form, or one is attracted to one sex rather than the other, and thus one is oriented homosexually or heterosexually or asexually,” Quattrini concludes.
How do homosexuals make love?
When there is love, there is everything. It does not matter whether in the sexual relationship people are of the same or opposite sex: the sexual experience is made especially exciting and spicy if there is complicity, sharing and respect between the two people. Nothing about the excitement and love between two people is lost when there is respect and the desire to give and receive sexual pleasure.
Love is love: how social stigma affects love
Sexuality is inevitably changing, the child of society and cultural evolution; variety and difference have gradually taken their own spaces, and so sexuality and love have found increasing strength. Thanks to events such as Pride, the ease of information and the fall of certain taboos, we can speak of a new conception of the body and sexual pleasure, as a couple or independently. However, despite the advances in sexual freedom, there still remain some social limitations, sometimes self-imposed, in experiencing sexual pleasure freely and consciously.
“Sexuality today compared to yesterday is viewed much more freely, as is the dimension of new fluid generations, which I like to define in a positive and purposeful way and not as Bauman described them, with respect to a loss and confusion that there may be behind fluidity in this case of gender or related to eroticism and sexuality,” Quattrini comments. “I am convinced that people who define themselves as nonbinary or fluid or who manage to live very freely their sexual orientation are people who today give themselves a chance to be themselves and thus, in being themselves, automatically represent themselves for who they are and the possibility of living serenely, disengaging from the socio-cultural cliché.”
In a society still filled with taboos, restrictions and judgments, probably the first thing to do is to take a look at ourselves, the people we are, as human beings: “We should learn not to be male and female, not to be homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual, or asexual or transgender; we should learn to simply be people Who, as such, best represent the individuality as differentiation from one another and as great resource for the community“.
