[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

Sorry but I don't believe that homosexuality exists at all - it's just a name that the proponents of a particular activity (or classification of activities) have given to try to legitimize it. The trick to doing that is to make it seem that there is a whole group of like-minded people who have the same innate characteristic - in fact, born that way and hence it is justified. I think that there is only an inherent sexual drive that we are all born with - and the classification isn't between heterosexual and homosexual, it's between normal and perverted - and it isn't about 'who one is', it's about 'what one does'. In the above article, Paglia is probably closest to the truth when it comes to how homosexuality is defined.

[little jeremiah]

Quite rightly stated.

Actually the very word "homosexual" was coined by a - well, they used to be called "sodomites" and "pederasts", merely words describing their activities - a "sodomite" who wanted a word that would create a sense of special community among fellow sodomy specialists.

It's a word just like "gay".

[Old Professer]

At least the fence-post knot-holers should agree with you.

[dangus]

"Homophilia" does exist. The term was invented to describe patients who found themselves far more turned on by members of their own sex; Even though they were trying to be heterosexual, they just couldn't find members of their own sex attractive.

Homosexuality is a behavior. It was conflated with homophilia by the MSM so as to confuse terms; it is much easier to denounce homsexuality than homophilia. The Catholic church, for instance, finds homosexuality to be emphatically and categorically denounced in the bible, but has significantly more difficulties on the issue as to whether homophiles should be excluded from the priesthood. (Rome has said they should be, but has failed to discipline anyone from the American Church which nearly unanimously permits homophiles into the priesthood. Rome opposes the ordination of homophiles because it finds that the tremendous sacrifice of priestly celibacy (which is fantastically greater of a burden than simple abstinence) requires sexually and emotionally healthy persons.