... the statistics and research findings below only apply to gay men. This was not my main intent when starting this essay but due to the lack of research performed on homosexual women it was the only course available to me. It cannot, unfortunately, be presumed that the statistics and results for male homosexuals will be the same for female homosexuals. This is due to a number of facts; mainly that whilst the population gender division is roughly equal, the number of male and female homosexuals that identify as such are vastly different. The first position, that of choice, is perhaps the most widely accepted of the three. The choice, of course, is a subconscious one. A person does not wake up one morning deciding to be homosexual. It is the idea of socialisation, that people due to the way they are treated and the environment they grow up in, ...

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