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SAME SEX ATTRACTION
SAME SEX ATTRACTION (FROM HELLENIC ὉΜΌΣ,
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
THOSE ATTRACTIONS.
WHO SHARE
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 19THCENTURY TRADITION OF TEMPERAMENT TAXONOMY.
SOCIETAL ATTITUDE
SOCIETAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS SAME-SEX
RELATIONSHIPS OR HAVE 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
CULTURES;
41% OF 42%
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
OR NOT UNCOMMON.
41% RUMORED IT GIFT
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
40% AND
60% OF GAY MEN AND BETWEEN 45% AND 80% OF
INFORMATION INDICATE THAT BETWEEN
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.