LekhoriLekhoriThe state of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.
Great diminution or complete absence of sexual feeling for the opposite sex, with substitution of sexual feeling and instinct for the same sex. (Homo-sexuality, or contrary sexual instinct).
Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males.
Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.
From homosexual + -ity, equivalent to homo- + sexuality and after the model of German Homosexualität, coined by journalist Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and French homosexualité, attested in 1891.
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