COLLAB 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stonewall Riots, Sexual Dysfunction, Ender Wiggin
1 Oct 2015
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Getting oriented to sexual orientation: directions of one"s sexual interests towards members of the same, other or both. Definition genders: heterosexual orientation, homosexual orientation, bisexuality. The term homosexuality is somewhat controversial: draws attention to sexual behaviour, has historical association with deviance and mental illness. *removed from dsm in the 1970"s as a disorder. Gay people have a gender identity consistent with their anatomic gender, just as heterosexuals (unlike transsexuals) When heterosexuals think about homosexuals they often focus on sexual aspects- relationships of homosexuals (like heterosexuals) involve more than just sex. Sexual orientation vs behaviour: prison- some males engage in male-male sex but do not classify themselves as homosexuals (sexual orientation is heterosexual but sexual encounter is homosexual in nature, experimentation. Kinsey"s estimates: _10_% combined (_13_% , _7_% ): predominantly or exclusively interested in & sex active w pp of their own gender for at least 3 yrs between ages of 16 &55.
