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Criticism unclear[edit]

In the opening paragraph of the article it is stated that: "The work has been praised by several scholars, but criticized by others, some of whom have attributed to Halperin the view that the coining of the word "homosexuality" in the nineteenth century brought homosexuality into existence." This does not sound like a criticism, but rather a simplification of his main point, as he writes in chapter 1 section 3: "although there have been, in many different times and places (including classical Greece), persons who sought sexual contact with other persons of the same sex as themselves, it is only within the last hundred years or so that such persons (or some portion of them, at any rate) have been homosexuals." Given that there is no source for this claim, I think it should be deleted. Notkiwi (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]