The bias can be seen when homosexual was classified as a mental illness in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), with its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) being used by many countries around the world. In 1952, homosexuality was listed as a sociopathic personality disturbance within the category of sexual deviations. This diagnosis included other behaviours like transvestism, paedophilia, fetishism, and sexual sadism. It was removed in 1973 due to research and a better understanding, but the grouping remains indicative of how it is perceived. So, being gay or transgender is not an illness, and crimes that would be considered deviant are also carried out in statistically larger numbers by those who identify as heterosexual, so why does this bias still exist today?

There are many examples from around the world of ordinary LGBTQIA+ individuals living everyday lives in loving relationships with children in supportive families, which are defined as conventional families with partners of the same sex.

Now, that is not to say all fetishes or activities are wrong. Especially where there are consenting adults, where no one is harmed, and where no reasonable crime is committed, rather than a moral judgment, all taking place in the privacy of their home or a discreet location, they should be allowed to do so without fear of the law or penalty. So immoral or deviant is not in the act but more in the ingrained, generational biases that still exist today.