[RobbyS]

What is new may also be no more than an historical anomoly. We are still greatly influenced by Freud whose whole "science," however, may be based on his examination of a single culture, the European culture of the late 19th Century, which was marked by a great crisis of faith. The Sexual Revolution dates from the "gay nineties of the 19th Century, not the 1960s. Modern sexuality may be nothing more than the result of a culture that stives to retain a morality independent of its religious basis. Modern homosexuality blames Christianity for its sense of alienation but what it is reacting against is, perhaps, just that hypocrisy that the '60s railed against, the product of a society that only seemed to be religious. You think of homosexuality as progressive. I think of it as decadence, or at least one kind of decadence.