Homosexuality is an increasing phenomenon throughout all societies. Both well-known and recent approaches provide challenging theories to explain homosexuality. For example, an Austrian scientist Sigmund Freud argued that one’s life experiences, particularly the traumatic ones, could impact his/her development and the expression of his/her innate instincts.
The first sexual experience being homosexual, a homosexual pattern of behavior if strongly expected in adulthood, both for males and females. Nevertheless, sometimes even if there was no sexual abuse in the youth, sexual deviations still occur. It might be of interest to provide a comparative observation of those with sexual abuse history and those homosexuals when an untouched nurture is apparent. In this way, it would be possible to track down the way sexual experience in childhood predicts adult behavior. In his Interpretation of Dreams, Freud describes an original technique in detail, analyzing his own dreams in order to prove his theory: “every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state”. Thus, the study to carry on could observe and describe dream patterns in adult homosexuals. Next step, one may compare dream drives between abuse-positive and abuse-negative history. Finally, the survey would analyze and interpret the scientific data.
The study representative sample would consist of volunteers collected by means of a website of our institution of learning. Case studying method provides the survey methodology and includes tête-à-tête interviews. Once, Freud’s approach of dream interpretation is chosen, personal conversations concerning sexual experience through the prism of dream recollections are the data gathering technique. The questionnaire must contain questions concerning sexual abuse history, and dream types description, which include processing, venting, integration, breakdown/breakthrough, recurring precognitive, prophetic, wish-fulfillment dreams.
The whole survey most probably should include a sufficient number of participants to make results statistically significant. Depending on how much error is accepted, the size of the population a statistical (for example, all US homosexuals), the sample size is calculated according to theSample Size Calculator.
From this research, we could study a) proportion of adult homosexuals after youth abuse and without it, b) dream types in both groups, c) difference between dream patterns may be revealed, and d) emotional condition of homosexuals compared.