The origins and role of same-sex relations in human societies

A similar understanding about adolescent homosexuality has long been held by medical authorities, who regarded it as a transitory phase of normal sexual development. Sigmund Freud wrote in 1905 that a homosexual tendency at puberty is normal among both boys and girls, and commented that "I have never carried through any psychoanalysis of a man or a woman without discovering a very significant homosexual tendency." Freud's judgment on adolescent homosexuality has been seconded by most authorities since. For example, Frank Richardson, a former surgeon general of the British army, and author of a handbook on sexuality widely used by army medical officers, described adolescent homosexuality as a normal phase of development. Though he was writing in the 1960s, when adult homosexuality was still regarded by the medical establishment as a psychosexual disorder, Richardson took homosexuality in adolescence as a given, and held that it was only abnormal, what he called a "form of immaturity," when it extended into the individual's adulthood. So while the unavailability of sexual partners of the opposite sex certainly encourage homosexual behavior, it cannot be denied that there is a natural predisposition among adolescents and young adults to homosexual behavior regardless the circumstances. Put another way, every human being is capable of some degree of homosexual responsiveness and expression, especially in youth.

source: From the book 'The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies' by James Neill; 'adolescent homosexuality is the rule' by Filip30; www.boychat.org/messages/1450158.htm; 10 August 2015; Book from: 2009