Midterm 3 Flashcards
What is sexual orientation?
The gender/sex identities that a person is attracted to (erotically and emotionally)
What factors make up sexual orientation?
Sexual behavior (who they are have sex with), sexual identity (group they belong to), and motivation (desire and love)
Heterosexual
attracted to only persons of a particular other sex
Asexual
having a lack of desire for sex or sex partners
Gay
a man who is only attracted to men
Lesbian
a woman who is only attracted to women
Bisexual
Being attracted to both men and women
Polysexual
being attracted to people of many different sexes and/or gender identities
Pansexual
being attracted to people of all sexes and gender identities
What is the Kinsey measure of sexual orientation?
a graph with heterosexual and homosexual on opposite ends
based on reports of activities, attractions, fantasies, and sometimes physiological responses to stimuli
What is the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
Past, present, and ideal ratings
Asked emotional, social life, and lifestyle questions
Which measure of sexual orientation is more accepted?
Klein grid, it allows for more options, temporal changes and includes self-idenitification
asexual people are more likely to be:
Single, women, gender diverse identities
Does genetics play a role in sexual orientation?
Yes
What is the biobehavioral model by Lisa Diamond?
Love and sex are functionally different systems
Love system is not gender specific
Culture says we should love who we have sex with
What is sexual fluidity?
Changing your sexual orientation
When did conversion therapy become illegal in Manitoba? Canada?
2015, January 2022
What is the Sexual Configuration Theory?
Partnered sexualities can be broken down into 3 parts:
Gender/sex
Partner number
Other sexual parameters
How is sexual activity linked to well being?
Positive sexual activity is linked to psychological and physiological health
How do women self report number of sexual partners?
underreport
What are problems with self-reporting sexual behavior?
worried about social desirability, awareness, and people might not be keeping track
Why are women less likely to engage in casual sex?
Don’t think it will be good and will be stigmatized for it
How is gender and sexual orientation linked to casual sex?
No differences between lesbians and gay men
Bisexual women are more likely to accept a woman’s offer than a mans
When a man is proposing, bisexual man is more likely to accept than a woman
When a woman is offering, both likely to accept
What is the pleasure/orgasm gap?
Heterosexual and bisexual women are less likely to orgasm than lesbian women
What are Conley and Klein’s findings in their 2022 study about the orgasm gap?
Fewer orgasms -> enjoy sex less -> desire sex less
More orgasms -> enjoy sex more -> desire sex more
Not gender difference, quality of sex differences
Sexual violence
Stigma
Culture of heterosexuality
Why do heterosexual women typically have a lower quality of sex than the men they are having sex with? (Klein and Conley)
Anatomy ease of access, consequences (pregnancy and pain), orgasm 34% of the time compared to men’s 70%
How COVID changed sexual behaviors?
people are having less sex and masturbating less
How is loneliness linked to well being?
Lonely = bad