Homosexuality is present in all cultures, and has been present in all cultures throughout recorded human history. Homosexuality is just as dangerous as cigarettes, so why not try to end it—with a tobacco company-style lawsuit? Homosexuality must be curable, it argues, since the Torah would not forbid something which is impossible to avoid. Homosexuality of all kinds flourished, it will be seen, notwithstanding the fearless yet fair application of a very severe law. Homosexuality , in Greek life, 85;practice of Rosicrucians,

Homosexual acts come naturally to them, heterosexual acts do not. Homosexual conduct between consenting adults is legal in Turkey, but far from accepted. Homosexual practices everywhere flourish and abound in prisons. Homosexual intimacies between girls are far more often platonic than similar intimacies between boys. Homosexual Eros has a different finality than heterosexual Eros. Homosexual choice of object is originally more natural to narcism than the heterosexual.

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction , or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions. Along with bisexuality and heterosexuality , homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual—homosexual continuum. The most common terms for homosexual people are lesbian for females and gay for males, but gay also commonly refers to both homosexual females and males. The percentage of people who are gay or lesbian and the proportion of people who are in same-sex romantic relationships or have had same-sex sexual experiences are difficult for researchers to estimate reliably for a variety of reasons, including many gay and lesbian people not openly identifying as such due to prejudice or discrimination such as homophobia and heterosexism.

Since the history of cultural understandings of same-sex attraction is relevant to the philosophical issues raised by those understandings, it is necessary to review briefly some of the social history of homosexuality. Arising out of this history, at least in the West, is the idea of natural law and some interpretations of that law as forbidding homosexual sex. References to natural law still play an important role in contemporary debates about homosexuality in religion, politics, and even courtrooms. Finally, perhaps the most significant recent social change involving homosexuality is the emergence of the gay liberation movement in the West.