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homosexuality|ˌhəʊməʊ-, ˌhɒməʊsɛksjuːˈælɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
The quality of being homosexual, homosexual character or nature; also, homosexual behaviour or activity.
1892C. G. Chaddock tr. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 185 (heading) Great diminution or complete absence of sexual feeling for the opposite sex, with substitution of sexual feeling and instinct for the same sex. (Homo-sexuality, or contrary sexual instinct.) 1892J. A. Symonds Let. 21 Oct. in P. Grosskurth J. A. Symonds (1964) 269 There is an inborn bias toward homosexuality. 1897H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex I. iv. 101 Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality. 1948A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behav. Hum. Male xxi. 615 Among many clinicians this work has been taken to mean that the sex hormones control the heterosexuality or homosexuality of an individual's behavior. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Path. 15 Many citizens..prefer to look on adult homosexuality as a matter of private taste. 1965Rosen & Gregory Abnormal Psychol. xviii. 381 All persons..have a greater or lesser tendency to homosexuality as well as heterosexuality. 1972Daily Tel. 11 Mar. 3/2 ‘Gay Cambridge’, the Cambridge branch of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality,..claimed that sex education at school did not adequately cover homosexuality. |