PSYC 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fiber Bundle, Sexual Arousal, Anal Beads
12 Sep 2016
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Prevalence of homosexuality: about 3% to 7% of american men and about 1. 5% to 4. 5% of. American women are homosexual or bisexual: more have same-sex sexual experiences or attraction on occasion. Women are more likely to move back and forth between heterosexual and homosexual relationships: bisexual identities tend to be less stable overtime. Asexuality: asexuality- lifelong lack of sexual attraction to men or women. Not on kinsey"s scale: asexual individuals do experience sexual arousal to erotic stimuli and masturbate; they just lack sexual attraction to other people. Sexual orientation, gender identity and gender roles: gender identity- one"s subjective sense of being a man or a woman. Psychoanalytic explanations: do parents play a role: sigmund freud. Believed that male homosexuality resulted when a boy had a domineering, rejecting mother and turned to his father for love, and later to men in general.
