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1homosexuality — 1892; see HOMOSEXUAL (Cf. homosexual) + ITY (Cf. ity) …
2Homosexuality — Sexual orientation Orientations Asexual · Bisexual · Heterosexual · Homosexual …
3homosexuality — /hoh meuh sek shooh al i tee/, or, esp. Brit., / seks yooh /, n. sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one s own sex. [1890 95; HOMO + SEXUALITY] * * * Sexual interest in and attraction to members of one s own sex.… …
4Homosexuality — Until 1977, censorship regulations, which applied both to Spanish and foreign films, banned homosexuality as a central part of a film s plot, and before 1963, representation of sexual perversions was simply unthinkable. Of course, one of the… …
5Homosexuality — Until 1977, censorship regulations, which applied both to Spanish and foreign films, banned homosexuality as a central part of a film s plot, and before 1963, representation of sexual perversions was simply unthinkable. Of course, one of the… …
6HOMOSEXUALITY — Among the sexual perversions proscribed as criminal offenses in the moral code of the Torah are homosexual relations between males (Lev. 18:22). Both offending parties are threatened with capital punishment (Lev. 20:13), though minors under 13… …
7homosexuality — The term homosexual describes those who have sex with, or are sexually attracted to, persons of the same (Greek:homo) sex. It was devised in 1869 by a Hungarian doctor (Benkert), as part of the emerging medical and scientific discourse around… …
8Homosexuality — The legal ban on homosexuality was repealed in the Russian Federation in 1993, and homosexuality was removed from the official list of mental disorders in 1999. Since then, Russia has seen an emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and… …
9homosexuality — Erotic attraction or activity, including sexual congress, between individuals of the same sex, especially past puberty. SYN: homoerotism, homoeroticism. ego dystonic h. a psychological or psychiatric disorder in which an individual experiences… …
10Homosexuality — The larger part of Dutch society had rejected sexual relationships between members of the same sex until the last decades of the 20th century. Although things have changed rapidly since then, discrimination of gays and lesbians still exists,… …