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Offline Texacon

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Ok dumass question
« on: August 17, 2008, 12:27:24 PM »
Why do we call gays 'homosexuals'?  Wouldn't they be more appropriately called 'monosexuals'?

Who has the answer?

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Offline Lord Undies

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Re: Ok dumass question
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2008, 12:40:42 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on August 17, 2008, 12:27:24 PM
Why do we call gays 'homosexuals'?  Wouldn't they be more appropriately called 'monosexuals'?

Who has the answer?

Thanks.

KC

That got me to thinking about "stereosexuals" and "quadrosexuals" I didn't want to go there. 
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Offline Texacon

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Re: Ok dumass question
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2008, 12:45:19 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on August 17, 2008, 12:40:42 PM
Quote from: Texacon on August 17, 2008, 12:27:24 PM
Why do we call gays 'homosexuals'?  Wouldn't they be more appropriately called 'monosexuals'?

Who has the answer?

Thanks.

KC

That got me to thinking about "stereosexuals" and "quadrosexuals" I didn't want to go there. 

LOL

This is a serious question though.  Me and the fam have been debating it for a little bit and I have done some searching ..... I dunno, I guess I am missing something.  It feels like a dumass question but I can't find the answer.

KC
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Offline MrsSmith

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Re: Ok dumass question
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2008, 01:04:58 PM »
Homo means "same," as in same-sex.

Mono means "one," as in masturbation?   :rotf:
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Re: Ok dumass question
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2008, 01:06:35 PM »
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Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece - there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/j-triv.html

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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2008, 01:13:01 PM »
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Etymologically, the word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid with homos (sometimes confused with the later Latin meaning of "man", as in Homo sapiens) deriving from the Greek word for same, thus connoting sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality

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