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The Homosexual Matrix
''The Homosexual Matrix'' is a 1975 (second edition, 1987) work about homosexuality by Clarence Arthur Tripp.〔Hamer 1994. p. 176.〕〔Berman 2003. p. 567.〕 The book was influential, and has received praise as an important discussion of homosexuality, but has also been criticized on various grounds.
==Summary==
Tripp expounds a social learning theory about the development of sexual orientation, arguing that heterosexuality and homosexuality are the result of societal expectation: people are gay or straight because they are taught to be that way.〔 He gives a critical account of psychoanalytic theories about the development of homosexuality,〔Dollimore 1991. p. 197.〕 arguing that they are based on flawed assumptions.〔Tripp 1975. p. 80.〕
Discussing the nature of eroticism, Tripp argues that physical attractiveness is the most important determinant of sexual desirability, while social class and status are relatively unimportant.〔Symons 1979. p. 295.〕 He believes that high levels of erotic feeling depend on resistance and the overcoming of barriers, especially for men.〔Symons 1979. p. 271.〕 Tripp notes that brief sexual encounters can be affectionate and romantic, like love affairs in brief, and that for many men one of the primary attractions of impersonal sex is that it allows each participant to imagine that he is having sex with the ideal partner.〔 Tripp states that human males have a stronger sex drive than human females,〔Symons 1979. p. 264.〕 and that while the sexual activities of lesbians are not focused on the genitals, those of gay men are.〔Symons 1979. p. 298.〕
Tripp points out that some gay men are able to maintain long-term monogamous relationships, and that such relationships may have been underestimated in the literature. He suggests that long-term gay couples owe the stability of their relationships to their understanding that sexual intensity with a single partner wanes, and that an appetite for new partners is inevitable. In Tripp's view, sexual jealousy can sometimes be overcome because of each partner's intuitive insight into the peculiarities of male sexuality.〔Symons 1979. pp. 296-297.〕
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