#3 Jane Ward suggests that homosexual desire is just part of the human condition. For instance, homosexual sex practices do not solely define the queer culture. Ward argues, “queer is less about sexual practices than about a ‘way of life’ that defies the rules of normative, respectable adult citizenship.” Since “sex practices are not useful guides for [gauging] the boundaries of queer and non-queer,” Ward implies basic human behavior includes sex practices, even homosexual sex, instead of homosexual desire belonging solely to the queer culture. For example, Ward notes, “white [straight] men assert that sex with other white men bolsters their heterosexual masculinity.” The straight men depicted in the study generally did not want in on queer
