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Answer for the clue "A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex ", 13 letters:
homosexuality

Word definitions for homosexuality in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: homosexualism , homoeroticism , gayness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex. 2 Sexual activity with a person of the same sex.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender . As a sexual orientation , homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the same ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1892; see homosexual + -ity .

Usage examples of homosexuality.

An example is the conflicted desire many men feel for anal stimulation, an innocent pleasure that some associate with homosexuality.

I want to take a moment here to respond to the other common concern voiced by my female patients over the years: Second only to cleanliness, many women are resistant to the thought of penetrating their partners due to an odd societal stigma that equates anal stimulation with homosexuality and, hence, emasculation.

Homosexuality was socially acceptable now, as was overt masochism, but this particular program disturbed him.

Homosexuality and transvestism were prohibited by law at that time, if linked with prostitution, and the brothel-keeper kept a few real girls at the bar to keep up appearances.

The demonstrators, who foisted pamphlets on carloads of incoming tourists, belonged to Operation Rescue National, an antiabortion group that is branching out to combat homosexuality.

The master binarism around which all the other terms turn, and the only one which regularly shifts valences, is that of homosexuality versus heterosexuality.

A new century got under way, and despite the efforts of certain parties, it continued to witness unchecked the sins of godlessness, blasphemy, fornication, homosexuality, miscegenation, pornography and cheesy B-movies.

I think he advanced the rather farfetched notion that his disappearing into strangling darkness with an unknown menacing male indicated unconscious fears of homosexuality, while I championed the prosier explanation that the whole horror of oil might merely stand for his resentment at having to work as a mechanic to earn a living.

Fellatio, cunnilingus, homosexuality, lesbianism, sodomy, bondage, flagellation, all were meticulously displayed, as were some aspects of the sex act that made even the raunchier performances at the Thrill Show look mundane by comparison.

Homosexuality occasionally raises its airy-fairy head but, like voting Labor, it is not considered socially acceptable.

It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions, and cut in two by divorce.

Blacks, homosexuality, our parents, people we know we hate, Saint Bernards.

In California, teachers (starting with kindergarten) are being encouraged to teach that homosexuality, bisexuality - and even trans-sexuality - is normal behavior.

Remember, the degenerates on the left who want to sell Americans on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, even sex with animals is normal are using porn as a way to indoctrinate the sheeple - while making their fortunes.

Although males were allowed to hold hands and kiss in public, homosexuality was frowned upon generally in the Arab world.