situational sexual behavior obsolete medical term situational homosexuality A mostly historical term used to refer to homosexual sexual activity in which at least one participant does not identify as gay, but who supposedly engages in such behavior due to an absence of heterosexual partners. For instance, in prisons, boarding schools, military bases, ships at sea, convents and monasteries, etc. This conceptualization often oversimplifies matters, ignoring situations which are nonconsensual, those in which comfortable experimentation may take place, and those in which admitting that one identifies as non-heterosexual might be dangerous. Therefore, it has fallen out of use. accidental homosexuality behavioral bisexuality emergency homosexuality functional homosexuality The Complete Dictionary of Sexology Bisexuality: A Contemporary Paradox for Women