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From: "Thomas Hejl Pilgaard" <pilgaard@tele2adsl.dk.dk>
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Subject: Female homosexuality = lesbianism. - Male sexuality = ?-ism
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:23:36 +0200
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1. Is there a word for male sexuality than ends in -ism?
Gayism doesn't seem to work.
A friend of mine claims that it is in fact "homosexualism",
since homo means man (which I don't quite agree with), meaning
that homosexualism means sex among men, and homo sapiens means
the thinking man.
So either there is no -ism word for male homosexuality, or there
is no common word for gayness and lesbianism... ?
2. Is there a common designation/name for words that end in -ism?
...The things you ponder at 3am...
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