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性行为的基本类型
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正在男青年求爱的老年男人
(古希腊花瓶画)
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Old man courting a young man
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像其它哺乳动物一样，人类不仅可能与另一个性别的同伴有性行为，而且与同性别的个体也有性行为。换一句话说，男女不仅参与异性性行为，而且也参与同性性行为。
同性性行为在儿童期十分平常，而且在青春期也不罕见。甚至，青春期之前的年月或在青春期，在我们的文化里，男孩和女孩与他们自身性别成员发生性接触比与另一个性别成员发生性接触多。在这个时期，他们常常被尽力地告知不要与异性玩游戏，而他们的同性之间的各种活动则较少引起大家的注意或者就不被关注。只有到了后来，这种情形本身发生了逆转。一旦他们到了十几岁时，会被要求只对异性产生兴趣，而他们的任何同性的性探索行为会受到谴责。然而，许多个体则继续有同性性接触，直到他们进入老年期。对于其中的一些人来说，同性性接触只不过是一种在以异性性生活为主的情况下的孤立事件。对于有一些人来说，同性性接触即使不定时地发生，也是一种常见的性体验，而对于还有一些人来说，同性性接触是他们的首选甚或性表达的仅有形式。 |
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Basic Types of Sexual Behavior |
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3. Homosexual Intercourse |
Human beings, like all other mammals,
may have sexual intercourse not only
with partners of the other sex, but also
with those of the same sex. In other words, males and females may engage not only in heterosexual, but also in homosexual intercourse.
Same-sexual behavior is quite common in childhood and is not at all unusual in adolescence. Indeed, in the years before or during puberty girls and boys in our culture may have more sexual contact with members of their own than with those of the other sex. During this period, they are often actively discouraged from playing heterosexual games while their homosexual activity attracts little or no attention. It is only later that the situation reverses itself. Once they have reached their teens, females and males are expected to develop exclusively heterosexual interests, and any homosexual exploration is strongly condemned. Nevertheless, many individuals continue to have homosexual contacts well into their old age. For some of them, these contacts represent nothing more than isolated incidents in an otherwise predominantly heterosexual life. For others, they become a frequent, if sporadic, experience, and for still others they are the preferred or even the only form of sexual expression. |
