HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCE TO THE POINT OF ORGASM AND 50% HAD BEEN AROUSED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY. OF THESE CASES 18% HAD AS MUCH HOMOSEXUAL AS HETEROSEXUAL EXPERIENCE FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST THREE YEARS, 14% MORE HOMOSEXUAL THAN HETEROSEXUAL EXPERIENCE FOR A THREE-YEAR PERIOD, 8% EXCLUSIVE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY FOR THREE YEARS, AND 4% HAD HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS EXCLUSIVELY THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFETIMES.

"THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN EDUCATIONAL LEVEL. ALSO THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN RELIGIOUS DEVOUTNESS," THE SCIENTIST ASSERTED. HE ADDED THAT RELIGION CAN BRING SOMEONE INTO HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY THROUGH DENIAL.

DR. POMEROY WENT ON TO STATE HIS VIEWS OF WHY HOMOSEXUALITY CONTINUES AS A PATTERN OF SEX BEHAVIOR DESPITE SOCIAL TABOOS. HE SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS PART AND PARCEL OF OUR NAMMALIAN INHERITANCE. HE IS NOT CONVINCED THAT THERE IS ANY HORMONAL CONDITION, NOR AN INDIVIDUAL INHERITANCE THROUGH THE GENES OR CHROMOSOMES.

"HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR CAN BE DEVELOPED FOR NEGATIVE REASONS AS A REACTION TO UNFAVORABLE HETEROSEXUAL EXPERIENCES," HE STATED. "OR IT MAY DEVELOP FROM PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE IN EARLY CONDITIONING,"

DR. POMEROY SAID HE WAS SKEPTICAL OF FREUDIAN CONCEPTS. CLAIMED THAT WE ARE BORN WITH A CAPACITY TO RESPOND SEXUALLY, AND HOW WE RESPOND DEPENDS ON ENVIRONMENT. HE DID NOT "SEE" THE FREUDIAN THEORY OF STAGES OF SEX DEVELOPMENT, FOR, AS HE PUT IT, ONE CAN START OUT AS A HOMOSEXUAL AND TURN HETEROSEXUAL, START HETEROSEXUAL AND TURN HOMOSEXUAL, OR START BOTH TYPES OF SEX ACTIVITY SIMULTANEOUSLY.

"THERE MAY BE SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES," DR. POMEROY SAID. HE TOLD THE STORY OF A PSYCHIATRIST WHO TOLD HIM HE HAD NEVER SEEN A HOMOSEXUAL WHO WASN'T NEUROTIC. DR. POMEROY AGREED THAT HE PROBABLY HADN'T AND THEN ASKED "HOW MANY HETEROSEXUALS HAVE YOU SEEN IN YOUR OFFICE WHO WEREN'T NEU-

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THE INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH WAS FOUNDED 20 YEARS AGO BY DR. KINSEY AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY. PRIOR TO THAT TIME KINSEY