is legalised, and it is no longer considered as a ‘Mental disorder’. Homosexual acts are being tolerated and even ignored by especially the Christian churches throughout Europe. In some places (the New Haven colony), homosexuality, for both men and women, can incur the death penalty. By the end of the 19th century, religious teachings were incorporated into legal sanctions; being Homosexual was considered a sin and crime. Although medicine and psychiatry were effectively competing with the religion
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of