Me 3.3c Gender and Sexual Orientation

Question 1

sexual orientation

Answer 1

about who you’re attracted to and want to have relationships with.

Question 2

heterosexual orientation

Answer 2

female-male

Question 3

same-sex orientation

Answer 3

attracted to one’s own sex

Question 4

asexual orientation

Answer 4

attracted to no one at all.

Question 4

bisexual orientation

Answer 4

attracted to both males and females

Question 5

erotic plasticity

Answer 5

the degree to which one’s sex drive can be changed by cultural or social factors. (women have more of this)

Question 6

fertile females theory

Answer 6

genes that dispose some women to conceive more children with men also dispose some men to be attracted to men

Question 6

kin selection

Answer 6

when an animal engages in self-sacrificial behaviour that benefits the genetic fitness of its relatives. (a possible reason for gay genes)

Question 7

fraternal birth-order effect

Answer 7

The effect becomes stronger with each additional male pregnancy, with odds of the next son being homosexual increasing by 38–48%