Chapter Three
1. Why was Freud so opposed to the idea that homosexuals were biologically distinct from heterosexuals?

2. Explain the pre and post oedipal "causes" of homosexuality, according to Freud. What are the problems with these explanations?

3. Why did Freud argue that homosexuals could not be easily changed to heterosexuals? How does the answer surprisingly indicate that Freud personally had a relatively positive view of homosexuals?

4. What three Americans turned psychoanalysis hostile toward homosexuality? What is the theoretical and the historical explanation for this?

5. Explain LeVay's point that American psychoanalysis has been as damaging to the parents of gay men as it has to gay men themselves.

6. Explain what Kenneth Lewes believes to be at the heart of psychoanalytic homophobia.

7. What unique and important role does LeVay think psychoanalysts may eventually be well suited to serve?

Chapter Four
1. What simpler explanation of homosexuality, advocated by psychologists like Wainwright Churchill and Paul Cameron, but not Watson and Skinner, did Behaviorism offer? Discuss four problems with this explanation.

2. Explain the basis of one trivial behavioristic "treatment" of homosexuality, and one treatment which could best be defined as torture.

3. Summarize the story of Don Harryman.

4. Summarize the research of Bailey & Zucker, and of Green, on the relationship of gender nonconformity in childhood and adult homosexuality. What are the implications of this research for environmental theories of sexual orientation?

5. Why is operant conditioning probably a better term for what John Money had in mind than imprinting. Summerize the case of Kyle, and of Green's work with a total of twelve gender non-conformist boys, and explain the implications for Money's theory.

6. Describe the case of John/Joan, and its implications for social-learning theories of sexual orientation.