Why do researchers study the development of homosexuality?
Researchers are interested in all aspects of human development, and sexual orientation is no exception. Sexuality is a key element in human life and is of substantial interest to researchers and other people as well. One goal of sexual research is to answer the question of how people come to have the sexual interests they have [25]. The study of homosexuality is one part of this larger scientific project. Not all this research may have direct practical benefits or effects. In other words, sometimes researchers study a topic to produce new information rather than new products or technologies. This is true of ‘basic research’ in general, and it may be true of the study of homosexuality in particular. What is important in basic research such as this is that scientists add to existing knowledge about how human sexual development occurs.
