SAME SEX

ATTRACTION

SAME SEX ATTRACTION(FROM HELLENIC , WHICH MEANS "SAME", AND LATIN SEXUS, WHICH MEANS "SEX")
IS ROMANTIC ATTRACTION, SEXUAL ATTRACTIONOR SEXUAL BEHAVIOR BETWEEN MEMBERS OF A SIMILAR SEX OR
GENDER. AS A SEXUAL ORIENTATION, SEXUAL ACTIVITY IS "AN ENDURING PATTERN OF EMOTIONAL, ROMANTIC,
AND/OR SEXUAL ATTRACTIONS" PRIMARILY OR COMPLETELY TO INDIVIDUALS OF A SIMILAR SEX. IT "ALSO REFERS
TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S SENSE OF IDENTITY SUPPORTED THOSE ATTRACTIONS, CONNECTED BEHAVIORS, AND
MEMBERSHIP IN AN EXCEEDINGLY COMMUNITY OF OTHERS WHO SHARE THOSE ATTRACTIONS.

THE FIRST NOTED

LOOK

THE FIRST NOTED LOOK OF HOMOSEXUAL IN PRINT IS FOUND IN AN 1869 GERMAN PAMPHLET BY THE AUSTRIAN-BORN
WRITER KARL-MARIA KERTBENY, PRINTED ANONYMOUSLY, ARGUING AGAINST A PRUSSIAN ANTI-SODOMY LAW. IN 1886,
RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING USED THE TERMS HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROSEXUAL IN HIS BOOK PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS.
KRAFFT-EBING'S BOOK WAS THEREFORE COMMON AMONG EACH LAYMEN AND DOCTORS THAT THE TERMS "HETEROSEXUAL"
AND "HOMOSEXUAL" BECAME THE FOREMOST WIDE ACCEPTED TERMS FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. AS SUCH, THE PRESENT
USE OF THE TERM HAS ITS ROOTS WITHIN THE BROADER 19TH-CENTURY TRADITION OF TEMPERAMENT TAXONOMY.

SOCIETAL
ATTITUDE

SOCIETAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS ORHAVE VARIED OVER TIME AND PLACE, FROM
EXPECTING ALL MALES TO INTERACT IN SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, TO CASUAL INTEGRATION, THROUGH
ACCEPTANCE, TO SEEING THE APPLY AS A MINOR SIN, INHIBITORY IT THROUGH ENFORCEMENT AND JUDICIAL
MECHANISMS, AND TO PROSCRIBING IT BENEATH PENALTY OF DEATH.IN A CAREFUL COMPILATION OF HISTORICAL
AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS OF PREINDUSTRIAL CULTURES, STRONG DISAPPROVAL OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY
WAS RUMORED FOR 41% OF 42% CULTURES;

IT HAD BEEN ACCEPTED OR NEGLECTED BY 21%, AND 12%

RUMORED AS NO SUCH CONCEPTION. OF 70%, 59% REPORTED
SEXUAL ACTIVITY ABSENT OR RARE IN FREQUENCY AND 41%
RUMORED IT GIFT OR NOT UNCOMMON.

IN CULTURES

IN CULTURES INFLUENCED BY ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS, THE LAW AND ALSO THE

CHURCH ESTABLISHED ANAL SEX AS A TRANSGRESSION AGAINST LAW OR
AGAINST THE LAW OF NATURE. THE CONDEMNATION OFANAL SEX BETWEEN
MALES, HOWEVER, PREDATES CHRISTIAN BELIEF. IT HAD BEEN FREQUENT IN
ANCIENT GREECE; "UNNATURAL" MAY BE DERIVED BACK TO PLATO .

PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASPECT

PEOPLE WITH A HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATION WILL SPECIFIC THEIR GENDER IN AN EXCEEDINGLY SORT OF WAYS , AND
SHOULD OR MIGHT NOT SPECIFIC IT IN THEIR BEHAVIORS.MANY HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS PREDOMINATELY WITH
INDIVIDUALS OF THEIR OWN PERSONAL IDENTITY, ALTHOUGH SOME HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE OF THE
OTHER GENDER,BISEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS, OR NONE THE LEAST BIT (CELIBATE).THE KINSEY SCALE MAKES AN ATTEMPT TO
EXPLAIN AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEXUAL HISTORY OR EPISODES OF THEIR SEXUAL INTERCOURSE AT A GIVEN TIME. IT USES A
SCALE FROM 0, WHICH MEANS COMPLETELY HETEROSEXUAL, TO 6, WHICH MEANS COMPLETELY HOMOSEXUAL.

IT'S SUPPORTED ACTUAL SEXUAL BEHAVIOR SURVEYS. ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT A LOT OF LESBIANS AND
GAY MEN NEED, AND REACH HAVING, COMMITTED AND STURDY RELATIONSHIPS. AS AN EXAMPLE, SURVEY
INFORMATION INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 40% AND 60% OF GAY MEN AND BETWEEN 45% AND 80% OF LESBIANS
ARE PRESENTLY CONCERNED IN AN EXCEEDINGLY ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. SURVEY INFORMATION
ADDITIONALLY INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 18% AND 28% OF GAY COUPLES AND BETWEEN 8% AND 21% OF
LESBIAN COUPLES WITHIN THE U.S. HAVE LIVED ALONG 10 OR A LOT OF YEARS.

SAME SEX ATTRACTION STUDIES HAVE FOUND SAME-SEX AND OPPOSITE-SEX COUPLES TO BE CORRESPONDING TO ONE
ANOTHER IN MEASURES OF SATISFACTION AND COMMITMENT IN RELATIONSHIPS, THAT AGE AND GENDER AREA UNIT A
LOT OF RELIABLE THAN SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS A PREDICTOR OF SATISFACTION AND COMMITMENT TO A
RELATIONSHIP, WHICH THOSE WHO AREA UNIT HETEROSEXUAL OR HOMOSEXUAL SHARE COMPARABLE EXPECTATIONS
AND IDEALS WITH REFERENCE TO ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS.