PHIL 200 Chapter Notes -Sexually Transmitted Infection, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Opportunity Cost
12 Jun 2018
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Males see other males as rivals whose presence tends to elicit dominance-seeking, while they see
females as potential mates whose presence elicits display.
It is disconcerting to encounter someone whose male appearance elicits one response-readiness but
whose quasi-female manner elicits another.
I suspect that some of the unease occasioned by homosexuals results from signal conflict.
A much more disturbing aspect of the homosexual personality is a penchant for extreme
promiscuity.
Here I refer primarily to male homosexuals, who appear far more promiscuous than lesbians.
Bell and Weinberg's study,5 the most thorough to date and the more convincing because of its
authors' explicit wish to vindicate homosexuality, found that 28 percent of the homosexuals
surveyed reported having Against Homosexual Liberation 105 more than fifty sex partners annually;
43 percent reported having had more than 500 sexual partners in their lifetime, and 26 percent
reported having had more than 1,000.
These are numbers to dumbfound the most dedicated heterosexual womanizer.
A majority of male homosexuals reported choosing strangers for sex partners most of the time and
having no affection for a majority of their sex partners.
Nearly half reported spending, on average, less than two hours with a partner.
Given this sexual hyperactivity, an association between homosexuality and sexually transmitted
diseases is inevitable.
A preoccupation with sex seems bound to carry personality correlates, some at variance with
ordinary heterosexual standards of decency, not to say employability.
An essay by one of the "Young men with 'no excuse'," published as the cover story of the New York
Times Magazine-and therefore presumably representative of a major strand in homosexual thought-
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Document Summary
Males see other males as rivals whose presence tends to elicit dominance-seeking, while they see females as potential mates whose presence elicits display. It is disconcerting to encounter someone whose male appearance elicits one response-readiness but whose quasi-female manner elicits another. I suspect that some of the unease occasioned by homosexuals results from signal conflict. A much more disturbing aspect of the homosexual personality is a penchant for extreme promiscuity. Here i refer primarily to male homosexuals, who appear far more promiscuous than lesbians. 43 percent reported having had more than 500 sexual partners in their lifetime, and 26 percent reported having had more than 1,000. These are numbers to dumbfound the most dedicated heterosexual womanizer. A majority of male homosexuals reported choosing strangers for sex partners most of the time and having no affection for a majority of their sex partners. Nearly half reported spending, on average, less than two hours with a partner.
