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[–]Gearbeta 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm no historian so grain of salt etc, but the research I've done says that while the terms homosexual and lesbians don't explicitly say no attraction to the opposite sex it's pretty clear from the context of how society was back then and how the terms are used that they weren't referring to women capable of being in happy meaningful relationships with men. Most of the time it was used in reference to same sex attraction between women or as the female equivalent of a sodomite. So literally, lesbian meant same sex attraction between females or female who have sex with other females. So a bisexual could be said to have homosexual/lesbian and heterosexual attraction. And also remember that society was different so anyone who was risking having a homosexual relationship back in those days was likely incapable of sexual attraction to the opposite sex because if they were they would simply find a man.