Homosexuality is a freely chosen response to situation, not a determinism

Evidence

In truth, homosexuality is no more a deliberate perversion than a fatal curse. It is an attitude that is chosen in situation; it is both motivated and freely adopted. None of the factors the subject accepts in this choice—physiological facts, psychological history, or social circumstances—is determining, although all contribute to explaining it. It is one way among others for woman to solve the problems posed by her condition in general and by her erotic situation in particular. Like all human behavior, this will involve playacting, imbalance, failure, or lies, or, on the other hand, it will be the source of fruitful experiences, depending on whether it is lived in bad faith, laziness, and inauthenticity or in lucidity, generosity, and freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1079

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the core existentialist-feminist concept of ‘chosen in situation’ — neither free choice nor causal determinism but a motivated adoption. Load-bearing for the whole chapter and book.
• XREF: Connects directly to Sartre’s concept of bad faith and the being-in-situation stance Beauvoir inherits from Husserl/Heidegger via Sartre. — connects to: Phallic privilege is contingent on situation, not anatomically destined — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128; Lesbianism is neither failure nor superiority but a free choice. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1034; Physiological virility does not predetermine homosexual attraction — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1032 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that choice in situation is ‘both motivated and freely adopted’ — that nothing determines yet everything explains — is a dense dialectical stance resisting easy summary.

Broader Connections

• The human race is constituted by free individual choices, not vice versa #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1222
• Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164