This article needs a new title. I will be moving it to "Gay sex" by this time tomorrow if there are no objections. The article is about nothing except sexual practices, so it should be given an article title that represents what it is about. "Behavior" is a word so broad that it could potentially include the habit of taking the bus to work, brushing one's teeth, reading the novels of Proust, etc., none of which are under the domain of this article. In addition, the word "homosexual" is considered quite clinical and old-fashioned, and "gay" is the accepted and usual term these days. Moreover, there is something vaguely homophobic about an article called "Homosexual behavior," as if there is any "behavior" exclusive to gay people. For those reasons, I plan on making the change, but I wanted to announce it here first in case someone had objections or suggestions. Moncrief 05:18, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
Same-sex sexual practices? If homosexual behavior is about sex only (not include kissing etc), i am okay with that. i guess homosexual behavior is a specialized term for sexology, not sure... -- Yacht 09:38, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
For the record, I did not move this page to its new title. I would have been quite happy to continue the discussion another day, or longer if concerns remained. It's sort of unfortunate someone decided to move the title without engaging in the discussion here. Moncrief 09:51, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
My apologies. For the record, I think that there are two articles needed - "homosexual behaviour" is not limited to same-sex sexual activity: there's a whole separate article needed on homosexual/queer culture, self-image and lifestyle. (For example, consider celibate homosexuals, of which there are many). It's just that this article was entirely about sex. I'll tweak things a bit, and see if I can improve the situation. -- The Anome 10:41, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I've left Same-sex sexual practices in place, and I've created a disambiguation page to deal with the vague term "homosexual behavior", and pointed it at some articles which are relevant. I think this is probably the best way to go. -- The Anome
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This article needs a new title. I will be moving it to "Gay sex" by this time tomorrow if there are no objections. The article is about nothing except sexual practices, so it should be given an article title that represents what it is about. "Behavior" is a word so broad that it could potentially include the habit of taking the bus to work, brushing one's teeth, reading the novels of Proust, etc., none of which are under the domain of this article. In addition, the word "homosexual" is considered quite clinical and old-fashioned, and "gay" is the accepted and usual term these days. Moreover, there is something vaguely homophobic about an article called "Homosexual behavior," as if there is any "behavior" exclusive to gay people. For those reasons, I plan on making the change, but I wanted to announce it here first in case someone had objections or suggestions. Moncrief 05:18, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
Same-sex sexual practices? If homosexual behavior is about sex only (not include kissing etc), i am okay with that. i guess homosexual behavior is a specialized term for sexology, not sure... -- Yacht 09:38, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
For the record, I did not move this page to its new title. I would have been quite happy to continue the discussion another day, or longer if concerns remained. It's sort of unfortunate someone decided to move the title without engaging in the discussion here. Moncrief 09:51, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
My apologies. For the record, I think that there are two articles needed - "homosexual behaviour" is not limited to same-sex sexual activity: there's a whole separate article needed on homosexual/queer culture, self-image and lifestyle. (For example, consider celibate homosexuals, of which there are many). It's just that this article was entirely about sex. I'll tweak things a bit, and see if I can improve the situation. -- The Anome 10:41, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I've left Same-sex sexual practices in place, and I've created a disambiguation page to deal with the vague term "homosexual behavior", and pointed it at some articles which are relevant. I think this is probably the best way to go. -- The Anome
Talk pages are where people discuss how to make content on Wikipedia the best that it can be. You can use this page to start a discussion with others about how to improve the " Homosexual behavior" page.