Palmer assures Katz that "homosexuality" and "homosexual" appears on page 1030 of the 1909 edition of Websters's International Dictionary. Palmer, of Merriam-Webster's Inc., Springfield, MA, to Katz, September 17 and October 28, 1993. See: Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary: "heterosexuality," 1923Īnd compare the 1923 entry on heterosexuality with Merriam-Webster's entry of 1934.ġ Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (NY: Dutton, March 1995), page 92, note 28 on page 225. "Heterosexuality" first appears in Merriam-Webster's fourteen years later, in 1923. "Homosexuality" makes its debut in this authoritative dictionary as a "Med." (medical) term meaning "morbid sexual passion for one of the same sex." Homosexuality was considered a "morbid" (diseased) passion because it was not a passion for procreating, but for sexual pleasure.
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