SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER VII: HOMOSEXUAL SEX-SCRIPTS
Historically homosexual sex-scripts have been
treated
as if they were fundamentally different from heterosexual sex-scripts,
but sex-script theory suggests that all imprinted sexual fantasies
originate in sexual imprinting in the first two decades of life.
People who find that they have homosexual
sex-scripts
(who find themselves responding sexually to members of the same sex)
are often surprised by this discovery.
And many of them try to change their sexual responses.
But very few have found ways to modify their imprinted sexual fantasies.
What they thought was a change of sex-script
might easily have been:
(1) putting greater emphasis on other imprinted sex-scripts;
(2) controlling sexual behavior while the sexual orientation remains;
(3) making merely verbal or mental changes—moral reformation;
(4) transcending sex-scripts to create specific sexual bonding.
As we understand all forms of sex-scripts
better,
and as society acknowledges greater variety in sexual life-styles,
there will be less effort to change sex-scripts.
And everyone will learn to live with whatever imprinting they have.
The experience of juvenile male prostitutes,
who sell sex to older men,
offers an opportunity to ask some interesting questions
about how and when sex-scripts are imprinted.
If the boys began to sell sex before their sex-scripts were imprinted,
did the practice of prostitution create their sex-scripts?
Some male prostitutes are heterosexual in their personal relationships.
How do they manage mentally to have one kind of sex for cash
and another kind of sex to celebrate love?
Preliminary observations of homosexual
households
show that homosexual sex-scripts are not ‘caught’ or learned.
Sex-scripts do not necessarily reflect surrounding patterns of sexual
behavior.
If homosexual sex-scripts are more promiscuous,
this might be because society does not support homosexual monogamy
or because some homosexual sex-scripts call for ever-new partners.
When homosexual partnership is as accepted as heterosexual coupling,
these two kinds of relationships might become more similar.
People who find themselves with homosexual
fantasies
could ask themselves a lot of questions about this discovery, such as:
How did this sexual fantasy get imprinted in my mind?
Would I like to change my given sexual fantasies?
Can I reconcile myself to my sexual responses?
And heterosexuals can ask themselves the same questions.
Chapter
VII
HOMOSEXUAL
SEX-SCRIPTS
by JAMES
PARK
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Created
3-16-2008; Revised