PSYCH 3AC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sickle-Cell Disease, Sexual Orientation, Twin
11 Jan 2017
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Human sexuality topic 8: non-normative sexuality 1, homosexuality. Exotic becomes erotic theory: individuals can become erotically attracted to classes of individuals from whom they felt different during childhood. The heterosexual attraction between males and females arises as a result of the differences between the sexes, both in biology and the cultural emphasis placed on this dichotomy. Homosexual attraction is a result of a child"s aversion to society"s sex-typical activities that cause him or her to feel different from the members of his or her own sex. Lesbians are more likely than heterosexual women to have felt different than other girls on tomboyishness . Bisexual respondents were more similar to heterosexual individuals than to homosexuals. Women experience less gender polarization (i. e. it is more acceptable for them to enjoy male activities and be tomboys during childhood); their sexual fluidity and higher likelihood of bisexuality is supported by the exotic becomes erotic theory. This was the sassiest paper i"ve ever read.
