homosexuality

Substantiv

1. 1

   The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.

   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).

   Some of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with great care, and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to that abnormal condition.

   The state hierarchizes sexuality by defining homosexuality as an influence that corrupts minors. Such a discourse produces a notion of the correct sexual behavior that transcends into the political realm, reinforcing the heteronationalistic nature of the nation-building.

2. 2

   Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males.

   Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.

   A Prussian proposal for a harsh penal code made male homosexuality an even more serious crime.