CFS 388 Lecture 10: CFS 388_Lecture13_12-6

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Child & Family Studies
• Course: CFS 388
• Professor: Susan Coots

Document Summary

In the 1990s, hiv and aids dominated the research studies. Emphasizes behavior, but some researchers suggest that fantasy and emotions are the most determinants of sexual orientation: 2. If a man had sex with a man 6 times this week, and one time his wife, which category is he: sexual orientation and experimentation are two different things. Why are there different sexual orientations: 5 basic types of theories, 1. Reported 52% of identical twin brothers of gay men were also gay: 2. Developmental: focus on a person"s upbringing and personal history to find the origins of homosexuality, evelyn hooker, a clinical psychologist, was a pioneer in gay studies who dried to combat the psychoanalytic view that homosexuality was an illness. She used psychological tests, personal histories, and psychological evaluations to show that homosexuals were as well-adjusted as heterosexuals: lewes (1988) demonstrated that previous psychoanalytic interpretations of homosexuality were based on prejudice, not science, 3.