THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL APPROACHES A RELATIONSHIP WITH A PHYSICAL ATTITUDE, SUCH AS GROPING, WHILE A LESBIAN HAS A MORE GRADUAL APPROACH, LEAVING THE PHYSICAL ASPECT TO FOLLOW IN TIME.

DR. POMEROY IS SCEPTICAL THAT LESBIANS EXPRESS MASCULINITY AND MALE HOMOSEXUALS FEMININITY. THERE ARE A FEW SUCH, HE ADMITS, BUT FEELS THAT THEIR ACTIONS ARE PART OF A LEARNED, CULTURAL CONDITIONING.

WE ARE ALL BORN WITH THE INHERITED ABILITY TO RESPOND SEXUALLY, BUT ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY CREATE THE PATH WE CHOOSE.

THE FEMALE IS NOT AS CONDITIONABLE AS THE MALE, IN TESTS WITH CATS THE MALE CAN BE TAUGHT TO GO IMMEDIATELY TO THE MATING PEN AFTER ONLY ONE EXPERIENCE. THE FEMALE CAT HAS NEVER BEEN CONDITIONED TO GO TO THE PEN.

IN DISCUSSING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, DR. POMEROY LISTED THE FOLLOWING:

32% OF THE MEN AND 17% OF THE WOMEN WERE SEXUALLY AROUSED BY SEEING THE OPPOSITE SEX.

7% OF THE MEN AND 3% OF THE WOMEN BY SEEING THEIR OWN SEX.

18% OF THE MEN AND 3% OF THE WOMEN WERE AROUSED BY NUDE FIGURES IN ART.

25% OF THE MEN WERE SEXUALLY AROUSED BY VIEWING THEIR OWN PENIS. 11% OF THE FEMALES WERE SIMILARLY AROUSED BY SEEING THEIR OWN GENITALS.

42% OF THE MEN AND 14% OF THE WOMEN WERE AROUSED BY PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES.

20% OF THE MEN AND 8% OF THE WOMEN PRACTICED INTERCOURSE IN THE LIGHT.

37% OF THE MEN AND 22% OF THE WOMEN EXPERIENCED EROTIC FANTASIES CONCERNING THE OPPOSITE SEX,

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