PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sexual Intercourse, Social Stigma, Tribadism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

In class question - question from the exam. Max, holds a social constructionist view of identity labels and dislikes them> he has always has a physical and emotional relationship with other men and is not interesting in having physical or emotional relationships with women. When describing himself, what identity group is max most likely to choose: man who has sex with men (msm, gay, queer *, undecided. Some people thought that this was not representative of their sexuality. Can lay on the continuum for all of these traits. Can be low or high , or not on any of the scales. We used to just say sexual orientation, now it is more about sexual and romantically orientation. May refuse to wear a dress, play with trucks etc. May adapt female gender roles imposed on her by her family because of her young age.