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IN 200 PRIMITIVE CULTURES STUDIED, 25% ACCEPT MALE HOMOSEXUALITY WHILE 1!✨ ACCEPT LESBIANISM. AMONG THE AMERICAN INDIANS 53% ACCEPT MALE HOMOSEXUALITY WHILE ONLY 17% ACCEPT LESBIANISM. ONETHIRD OF THE CULTURES REJECTED FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY COMPLETELY.

OUR PRESENT-DAY ATTITUDES STEM FROM THE ANCIENT JUDAIC LAWS WHICH CAME ABOUT DURING THE 17TH CENTURY B.C. WHEN A WAVE OF NATIONALISM DEVELOPED. LAWS WERE PASSED AGAINST MASTURBATION AND MALE HOMOSEXUALITY, DEMANDING THE DEATH PENALTY, BUT LESBIANISM WAS CONSIDERED MERELY AN INDECENCY, THIS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY CARRIED OVER INTO CHRISTIANITY.

THE PRESENT DAY CULTURES OF AMERICA, ENGLAND AND EUROPE ARE THE MOST INHIBITED OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ANTHROPOLOGISTS.

IN DISCUSSING THE MATERIAL GATHERED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH, DR. POMEROY STATED HIS BELIEF THAT THE FEMALE IS NOT AS SEXUAL AS THE MALE. THERE ARE, HE BELIEVES, ONLY ABOUT HALF AS MANY LESBIANS AS THERE ARE MALE HOMOSEXUALS.

"IN DISCUSSING MEN WITH LESBIANS AND WOMEN WITH MALE HOMOPHILES 1 FIND THEY HAVE THE SAME REACTIONS TO THE OPPOSITE SEX AS DO MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN." THERE IS, HE POINTED OUT, A BASIC DIFFERENCE IN WHAT SEX MEANS TO MAN AND WOMAN.

MEN ARE MORE AROUSED BY SEEING AND THINKING THAN ARE WOMEN. ONETHIRD OF THE WOMEN INTERVIEWED WERE SEXUALLY AROUSED IN THIS MANNER, HE STATED. SOME WOMEN CAN BE MORE HIGHLY AROUSED THAN ANY MAN; BUT NINE PERCENT OF THE WOMEN IN THE SURVEY HAVE NEVER ACHIEVED ORGASM.

THERE IS A WIDER RANGE OF SEXUALITY IN WOMEN THAN IN MEN, AND DR. POMEROY THINKS IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE LESBIAN MAY BE MORE RESPONSIVE SEXUALLY THAN THE AVERAGE FEMALE, ALTHOUGH, HE POINTS OUT, THERE ARE MANY LESBIANS WHO ARE NOT SEXUALLY AROUSED, OR EVEN INTERESTED. THEIR INTEREST IN WOMEN IS PRIMARILY THAT OF COMMON INTERESTS AND COMPANIONSHIP.

THE LESBIAN HAS A MORE MONOGAMOUS APPROACH TO LIFE THAN DOES A MAN, AND A WOMAN RARELY HAS MORE THAN 20 RELATIONSHIPS DURING HER LIFE. DR. POMEROY BELIEVES THAT MALE HOMOSEXUALITY GIVES A MAN MORE FREEDOM TO EXPRESS THE PROMISCUOUS MALE INCLINATION.