Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1910

1910. When the being is sexually attracted to its own sex, it is naturally because of a hunger released by its opposite pole. Its ordinary pole could of course never make the being feel sexually attracted to its own sex. The ordinary pole in the man is the masculine pole, while the opposite or new pole in the man is the feminine pole. But since a masculine pole cannot possibly give rise to attraction towards the masculine in another being, it can be only the incipient feminine pole in the man that creates his sexual attraction towards his own sex. Since the woman's feminine pole likewise cannot possibly give rise to sexual attraction towards the feminine in another being, but can give rise only to sexual attraction towards the masculine, it will thus be only her incipient new masculine pole that gives rise to her sexual attraction towards her own sex. This does not of course include the situation that can arise when beings of the same sex are obliged to be together for a long time without any access whatsoever to beings of the opposite sex, as is sometimes the case with soldiers at the front and prisoners in prison camps and prisons. This obstacle to the natural satisfaction of their sexual desire leads of course inevitably to masturbation. That this sexual desire can lead to the beings helping one another with this masturbation does not mean that these beings are sexually orientated towards their own sex. On the contrary, they must use their imagination to picture a being of the opposite sex as their sexual partner. The same also holds true of many of the beings that go along with the two-poled act only for the sake of money or gain. They naturally think only of a being of the opposite sex as the object they perform the act with, and do not think of the partner of their own sex with whom the act is performed. The act is therefore only an imaginary experience, an artificial act, a slightly more extended form of masturbation than the solitary act that the being must otherwise perform on its own, during which it can naturally imagine only a sexual partner of the opposite sex. Such beings are in actual fact still so-called "normally" sexually orientated and will, as soon as the occasion arises, seek the completely natural act for them with beings of the opposite sex.