FRHD 2100 Chapter 9: Chapter 9

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Classifying sexual orientation: determining a person"s sexual orientation might seem clear cut, but a significant percentage of people are neither exclusively heterosexual nor exclusively homosexual, falling somewhere in between. It is not unusual for heterosexuals to have sexual encounters with people of their own sex or for homosexual"s to have encounters with people of the opposite sex while maintaining their gay sexual orientations. Male heterosexuals responded genitally only to the female stimuli. Male homosexuals responded genitally only to the male stimuli. Both heterosexual and homosexual women were more genitally aroused by both. In the canada youth and aids survey (boyce, 2003), students were asked their sexual orientations, as indicated by their physical attraction to members of the same sex, other sex or both sexes. Bisexuality: biphobia: negative attitudes and feelings toward bisexual people, including intolerance, hatred and fear, weinrich and kelin (2002) speak of bisexuals as: Bi-gay: have stronger leanings towards people of their own sex.