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The words 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual' refer to mutual sexual attraction between persons of the same sex and the opposite sex respectively. These words were originally adjectives; now they are very often used also as nouns, a usage which the Core Group regrets, since it may imply that this is the most important fact about a person's identity. The word 'gay' was chosen by homosexual persons to describe themselves in the 1960s, as a positive adjective in place of the earlier use of 'queer'. Originally 'gay' was applied to both men and women; more recently it has been applied to men, and the older term 'lesbian' (based on descriptions in the poetry of Sappho from Lesbos in ancient Greece) is used exclusively for homosexual women. The term 'bisexual' refers to someone who is sexually attracted to persons of both sexes.
'Sexuality' was originally defined narrowly as a general description of sexual behaviour (and this narrow sense is used in many Anglican documents, particularly the statement and resolutions of the 1998 Lambeth Conference). However, today it is usually used more broadly to describe the whole way of reacting to the world as a male or female. As such it reflects attitudes which are as much conditioned by society and culture as by biology, if not more so. This latter sense is the one in which it has been used in the discussions within the United Reformed Church since 1993.
A 'sexual relationship' refers to intimate sexual contact between two people involving either penetrative sexual intercourse or mutual genital stimulation. From such a point of view the term 'active sexual relationship' is tautologous, since sexual relationships have been defined as 'active'; but this is also the sense in which the word 'practice' is used with 'homosexual' or 'heterosexual' as an adjective. It should be noted that the words 'active' and 'passive' are also often used to denote respectively the partner who takes the initiative in...
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