Sexual Orientation Flashcards
Chapter 14
What is a better alternative to the term sexual orientation?
Sexual preference
What does MSM and WSW mean?
Men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women
What is the difference between polysexual and pansexual?
Polysexuality refers to people who reject attraction to any genders, as genders are not perceived to be important. (Eg. they are also attracted to trans people)
Pansexuality is attraction towards people, regardless of gender or biological sex.
What is the correct LGBT?
LGBTI
Sexual orientation
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Bisexual
Gender identity
- Transgender
- Intersex
What is Storm’s two dimensional scheme?
A scheme for sexual identity.
From low to high homoerotisicm along the horizontal axis and high to low heteroerotisicm along the vertical axis.
- Four quadrants contain homosexuals, asexuals, bisexuals and heterosexuals
What is 0 on Kinsey’s scale?
Exclusively heterosexual
What are 3 myths about sexual orientation?
- A dichotomous model of sexual orientation exists (eg. completely homosexual or completely heterosexual)
- Gender is the primary criterion for sexual partner selection
- Sexual orientation is immutable (unchanging)
What most negatively influences attitudes towards sexual minorities? (research)
Traditional gender role attitudes
Who expresses the most negative feelings towards homosexuality? (research)
Those who believe it is learned.
True or false? Most people are bisexual, either latent or manifest. (research)
Research indicates that this is true
The vast majority of pedophiles are ____ (research)
Heterosexual men
True or false? Research has found that same0gender sexual experience and orientation has occured across history and cultures?
True
What percentage of men and women have had same gender sexual experiences since puberty? (research)
9% of men
4.3% of women
What percent of men and women report feeling desire for the same sex? (research)
44% of men
59% of women
In men, the likelihood of being gay increases with the number of ____ (research)
older brothers
Only true of right handed
What is a bigot?
A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own.
What is the belief in the superiority of geterosexuality called?
Heterosexism
What is cultural heterosexism?
Stigmatization, denial or denigration of non-heterosexuals in cultural institution ranging from the church to the courthouse
What is psychological heterosexism?
A person’s internalization of a hetersexist worldview, which is expressed as antigay prejudice
What are five ways in which heterosexism is expressed?
- Exclusion of sexual minorities in social, political, religious, scientific, medical and economic decision
- Assumption that sexual minorities should not marry or have children
- Excessive focus on sexial minorities and pathologies (eg. AIDS)
- Lack of supports comparable to those available to heterosexuals
What is the most common expression of heterosexism?
The unintended or intended exclusion of sexual minorities.
What is homophobia?
The irrational and persistent fear or hatred of sexual minorities
What are five motives for homophobia?
- Religion
- Repressed envy
- Fear of being homosexual
- Threat to personal or societal values
- Threat to masculine norms
What is same sex activity that occurs in certain situations, such as prisons, when people are deprived of their regular heterosexual activity?
Deprivation or situational homosexuality
What was gay identity or gay rights movement formed in resistance to?
Overt homophobia
What are four purposes for sexual identity categories?
- Gay identity formed in resistance to overt homophobia
- Personal issues are also political
- Wearing or performing non-normative sexual identities has moved from political to personal identity
- The two were never separable
Is sexual identity linked with gender performance?
Yes
What are three reasons for increased mental health issues in LGBT individuals and youth?
- Lack of positive role models
- Lack of support
- Surplus of negative stereotypes
Why is finding out how many people are LGB so hard?
Because people identify differently with different parts of it. Eg. some may be attracted to same sex, but not act on it. Others might identify as something but not really be attracted to it. Phrasing of the question is everything.
What beliefs does modern homonegativity most reflect?
Gay men and lesbians exaggerate the importance of their sexual orientation and/or make unnecessary demands for social change
whos the best?
you are!
What is the definition of coming out?
The process of acknowledging to oneself, and then to others, that one is gay or lesbian
What are the sex steps of forming a sexual identity?
- Identity confusion
- Identity comparison
- Identity tolerance
- Identity acceptance
- Identity pride (us vs. them)
- Identity synthesis (accepting heteros as well)
What does finger size have to do with likeliness for being lesbian?
Men’s index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers, compared with women’s. Lesbians have a shorter index finger, just like men’s.
What does interactionist theory say about homosexuality?
That girls or boys who don’t conform to their own gender roles will find members of their own sex that do exotic and therefore erotic.
