ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the study of the factors involved in the movement and processes of homosexual behavior over an interval of time. It describes homosexual behavior on two levels of abstraction: the phenomenological or behavioral level and the level of meaning and symbolization. The chapter discusses the process by which a new inmate becomes involved in a homosexual affair. It shows some of the sources of strain which impinge on the relationship because of the context in which the love affair takes place. The chapter analyses the process of turning out suggests that some inmates are more likely than others to have homosexuality presented to them as a means of adjusting to imprisonment. The use by femmes of the usual tactics of males in heterosexual affairs was explained by our respondents as a matter of supply and demand –there are fewer butches than femmes in the population.
