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By Francis Mark Mondimore. 282 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. $15.95. ISBN 0-8018-5440-7.

The great majority of humans are attracted to members of the opposite sex, but a not insubstantial minority (estimated between 2 and 5 percent) are attracted to members of the same sex. Why? In the past decade, this question has moved from a backwater of psychopathology to a vital place in behavioral-science research, engaging a spectrum of disciplines from sociology to molecular biology. Still, despite prodigious effort, we lack a coherent understanding of the mechanisms by which sexual orientation of whatever stripe is formed and maintained.

As its title suggests, A Natural History of Homosexuality takes a broadly chronologic approach. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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