PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Romantic Orientation, Intrusive Thought, Sexual Dysfunction

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Yara Kadulina

Document Summary

Asexual individuals may fall in love romantically with another person without feeling sexual desire for her or him. May have a masturbation frequency that falls in the normal range. May or may not acquire an asexual identity. Even ancient greeks may have held mixed views about male-male sexual behaviour. Upper classes were more positive about homosexual love, but the majority of citizens were not. Negative views of same0sex behaviour persist today in most societies around the world. Heterosexism > minimizes lgbttiqq (gsm) people and assumes heterosexuality is the gold standard of normal behaviour. Even more pronounced degree of heterosexism, which may cause acts of violence and hatred come from homophobia, biphobia, and queer phobia. Internalized homophobia > may cause gay/lesbian people to hate and fear themselves. People attempted to remove their homosexuality through conversion therapy. There is no proven method to change someone"s sexual orientation. Dr. spitzer fundamental to removing homosexuality from list of disorders.