The causes of male and female homosexuality have been debated for at least two thousand years. Essentialists say that a homosexual identity (in contrast to homosexual behavior) has always existed, and they ascribe it to a biological origin. Constructionists, on the other hand, believe that the concept of being a homosexual, as someone different from other people, is relatively new, having emerged only in the past few hundred years. Neither of these theories denies that homosexual behavior has always existed and that we have records and paintings of homosexual behavior from thousands of years ago.
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