同性恋是人类学、精神医学研究的重要课题,但直到19世纪才受到人们的充分重视。1870年德国精神病学教授Richard从医学角度对同性恋现象进行研究,认为同性恋由先天遗传所决定,而弗洛伊德认为同性恋来自早期性心理发育中的矛盾冲突。“同性恋”(homosexuality)这一术语最初是一名 Homosexuality is an important topic in anthropological and psychiatric research, but it was not paid enough attention until the 19th century. In 1870 Richard, a German professor of psychiatry, studied the phenomenon of homosexuality from a medical point of view. Homosexuality was determined by innate inheritance, and Freud thought that homosexuality came from contradictions in early sexual psychology. The term “homosexuality” was originally one