ABSTRACT

Homosexuality is just one aspect of sex research, and the research into other aspects of sex behavior, including the availability of contraceptives, the greater utilization of abortion, and a greater awareness of the pleasures involved in sex, were important in breaking new trails for homosexual research. Once homosexuality is considered a variant of sexual expression, there is no necessity to search for cures, and the possibility appears of studying homosexuality as just one aspect of human sexual behavior. In addition to the chromosome determination of sex there are developments in utero which influence the nature and appearance of the sex organs, and perhaps even sexual behavior. Psychological or sociological variables are ignored in the Dominican Republic account, but it seems clear, nonetheless, that biology is extremely important in setting sex identity. A child reared in a sex incongruent with his or her sexual identity will manifest the incongruity by not accepting sex roles or impositions which are out of character.