title: Male-male homosexology: seven short discourses.
abstract: Homosexology is that branch of the science of sexology that deals with same sex relationships. It is subdivided into ideation, imagery, and praxis. Praxeology is the science of praxis. There are two doctrines by which homosexuality is defined: elective and developmental. Elective is like joining a political party and is more likely bisexual than exclusively homosexual. Complete developmental homosexuality is a state of being and is characteristically immutable. Both types of homosexuality are determined multivariately and sequentially, not univariately. Male and female mammals are phylogenically programmed to be reciprocal, not identical, in the praxeology of their courtship and mating. In primate, notably human, evolution, the eyes have taken over from the nose as organs of erotic arousal, but the molecular biology of how this happens in individual development, gay, straight or ambivalent, remains to be ascertained. The different personal histories of homosexual development also remain to be ascertained and cataloged.
authors.affiliation: Psychohormonal Research Unit, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, Baltimore, MD, USA. jmoney@mail.jhmi.edu
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Money
mesh_terms: D001727:Bisexuality; D005783:Gender Identity; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D044347:Sexology / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D012725:Sexual Behavior