Behavioral Science- Gay sexuality- Dr. Holt Flashcards
one of your patients admits to having sex with both men and women. but only has thoughts, fantasies about men. what is his sexual orientation and sexual behavior?
Sexual orientation is homosexual
sexual behavior is bisexual
A high school football player is a patient of yours, he says he plans on marrying his cheerleader girlfriend after graduation but then admits to you that he has sexual dreams about males and females. what is his sexual orientation?
Bisexual
You have a mom concerned about how feminine her son is acting. she wants to know what she can do to change this behavior before its “too late”. what should you tell the mother?
reassure mom that her son’s gender identity is not a choice and to be supportive of his fairy ways.
Mom comes in with her 13 y/o daughter. the mother expresses concern to you that her daughter is a lesbian and asks you what she can do to change it. Whats your best response?
reassure mom that her daughters sexuality is not a choice and to be supportive of her regardless of her sexuality
Patient is pregnant with a boy, she asks what is the chance of having this child born gay? what gives the strongest likelihood that the boy could be gay?
she has already had 4 boys and one of them is gay. (“studies” show that gay men are more likely to have an older brother, the youngest of the family is most often the gay one. And that having a family member who is already gay increases chance of more gayness)
what is the latest scientific evidence causing male homosexuality?
genes, hormones and male birth order
upon autopsy of a gay man, what neuroanatomical changes would you see?
differences in the hypothalamus and brain hemispheres ( compared to a straight man’s)
what is the definition of sexual orientation?
defined by thoughts, fantasies and dreams
emotional, romantic, sexual or affectional attratction.
what is transgender?
gender identity or gender expression differs from the sex assigned at birth.
sexual orientation refers to what?
a person’s erotic response tendency
what study had findings of: 37% men had homosexual experience to orgasm. 8% were exclusively homosexual. And indicated broad spectrum of sexual orientation.
Kinsey study
what is the spectrum of sexuality scale that Alfred Kinsey developed?
scale is 0 to 6, 0= totally straight
6= exclusively homosexual
what did Kinsey’s study confirm?
that sexual orientation is a broad spectrum of degress of bisexuality.
genetic factors are not the only influence on sexuality. what else did he say was?
effect of hormones and birth order and epigentics
what is epigentics?
effects of particular proteins affecting gene expression
