SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moral Panic, School District 36 Surrey, Closed Wing
6 Sep 2016
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Bisexuality: coping with sexual boundaries by mariana valverde. There exists a myth that everyone is really , deep down , either gay or straight except for a very few people who might be allowed to be really bisexual. This myth speaks to the belief that we all have some inner core of sexual truth that exists/persists even while our surface behavior patterns change. People seen as having a hard, fixed core of sexual identity with no room for change throughout the course of their life and their experiences. Some people believe that this inner core is determined biologically by hormones and genes; others think it is determined by early psychological experiences. Nobody knows how sexual orientation is in fact determined. One reason for this failure is that almost all research to date has concentrated on finding the causes" of homosexuality, as if heterosexuality had no cause.
