Freedom! What a wonderful concept. One of our most important freedoms is our ability to make choices. When a person takes that freedom away from another person, they can feel violated. An example of this is rape. Rape always involves one person violating another person, by forcing them to have sex. There is a difference between sexual intercourse that occurs between consenting individuals, compared to the sexual pleasure one with a deviant perversion would receive. In this essay we will discuss the various types of perversions that have been documented, and I will argue that however odd or strange a specific perversion seems, the only type that should be considered morally wrong are those that hurt people by taking away their freedom to choose whether or not they want to participate in the act.
             Within our ever evolving society, we can see how it is that our views of perversion can change, some are added and some are removed. Homosexuality had for a long time had been considered as a sexual perversion among many parts of Western civilization, (and for some it still is), but within the field of psychology, it is no longer considered pathological (Parker p132). Homosexuality was viewed as deviant because it was considered not to be a normal sexual desire. Throughout the years, scientists have tried everything to explain a cause for homosexuality. Theories of how homosexuals have different brain activity, specifically a larger hypothalamus was noted as one possible cause(Parker p134). Also a biological reason for homosexuality has been given, stating that homosexual males have higher levels of estrogen, then heterosexual males. Whatever the reasons or cause for homosexuality, it is becoming more evident that with societies increasing acceptance of it, we are slowly taking away the stigma that was attached to it. There is however one specific reason why I believe that homosexuality should have never been classified as a perve...