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Why Do You Think It Is Important For Sexual Orientation Researchers To Define Homosexuality And Homosexual

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1) Why do you think it is important for sexual orientation researchers to define what they mean by homosexuality and homosexual?
Personally, I think that it is important for researchers to define the meaning of homosexuality and homosexual because society need to be aware of the differences between both. Homosexuality is defined as the sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. In other words, homosexuality is just the curiosity of experiencing something different. In the other hand, homosexual is the actual act of being romantically attractive to a person of their same sex.
2) According to the article, a homosexual can be someone who self-identify as homosexual, and/or has sexual/romantic attraction towards

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