Talk:Acquired homosexuality

A fact from Acquired homosexuality appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:32, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age of consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination? Source: various, see article
- ALT1: ... that belief that homosexuality is spread through "recruitment" or "seduction" has motivated anti-gay discrimination from Nazi Germany to the Russian gay propaganda law?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tishaura Jones ‎
- Comment: I think ALT1 is slightly better but I'll let you decide

Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 06:06, 3 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good, article meets the requirements, information present in the hook is cited through references found in the article, and I agree that the main hook is more effective than the ALT1. I see no reason to not approve. JJonahJackalope (talk) 03:01, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting the main hook to Prep 7 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:32, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific evidence

The article immediately goes ahead, as required by our guidelines, to say that acquired homosexuality "is [a] discredited idea". Given the emphasis, I don't know what exactly to expect but I certainly didn't expect the "Scientific evidence" section to be that scanty or have only one source citation. Anyone wanna expand it? More sources? — Python Drink (talk) 19:05, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To be more specific, I'm very much interested in seeing scientific evidence that points to homosexuality being innate. I actually want to show this to people so I want more sources and expansion. — Python Drink (talk) 19:07, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Python Drink A good place to start in expanding the article could be the sources cited by Bailey et al. Or, you could try posting on WT:MED and do your own searches. We also have articles on Environment and sexual orientation and biology and sexual orientation which may have additional useful resources. However, most medical researchers don't frame their questions primarily in terms of "innate" vs. "not innate" meaning that studies can't be cited in this article without WP:original research. (t · c) buidhe 19:23, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]