From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 03:27:14 MST
KPJ wrote:
> What definition do you use for ``homosexuality''?
I intend to be as polite and inoffensive as possible, but
I really must ask, KPJ, who on earth cares?
Sexual orientation is not a clinical entity; sexual behavior
between consenting adults is not a clinical entity. What
might, in some cases, be a clinical entity is an obsession
with homosexuality, not because of its sexual content but
because of its obsessiveness (and its latent or manifest
correlative, compulsiveness).
The "cause" of homosexuality, and certainly this is a com-
plex multivariate phenomenon, is only of importance for
those individuals who are uncomfortable with their homo-
philia (I prefer this term). There is no medical reason, per
se, to search for a cause, because it is not a disease and
therefore requires no cure.
Bob
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