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Hoiizosexual activity, even though it involves another
person, belongs in the category of solitary sex acts because
the erotic pleasure is confined to the one who plays the
role of the active agent in the perversion. Homosexuality
may stem from a glandular dysfunction; generally, however,
it seems to be psychological in origin, that is, a habit
formed in adolescence which results in such a weakening of
the will that the victim, in adulthood, lacks the mental and
physical strength to cast it off. In the end, its effect, like
that of alcoholism, is often pathological; obviously, it is
~iot a natural use of the sex function. Many eminent
authorities speak of it as a “cogenital anomaly” rather than
a disease. Usually the homosexual possesses characteristic
psychic and physical traits of the opposite sex. Pederasty
is carnal copulation of an adult as the active partner with
a boy as the passive partner. Sodoiizy, basically, is defined
(WNCD) as “carnal copulation with a member of the
same sex or with an animal, or unnatural copulation with
a member of the opposite sex.” As a matter of fact, however,
the term has come to be used in many legal codes
for all kinds of sex perversion. History proves that in
cultures in which homosexuality has become a practice
woman has never been accorded any particularly honorable
status; moreover, that the spread of the perversion throughout
the population, as in the days of the so-called “Enlightenment”
in Athens and in those of the Empire in
Rome, is an unfailing mark of national decadence. The
morale of a people depends upon the national morality;
and the national standard of morality depends very largely
on the nation’s sex morality. Socrates, in Athens, had
his “beloved”-his name was Alcibiades. Plato winked at
the practice. Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, on
the other hand, despised it. And Aristotle deplored it,
criticizing Plato for his seeming tolerance of the perversion.
It is amazing to discover how many eminent
persons in the field of literature in particular have been
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