Sexual Orientation Flashcards
What is KS level 0?
Exclusively hetero.
What is KS level 1?
Predominantly hetero, incidentally homosexual.
What is KS Level 2?
Predominantly hetero, but more than incidentally homosexual.
What is KS level 3?
Equally hetero and homosexual.
What is KS level 4?
Predominantly homosexual, more than incidentally hetero.
What is KS Level 5?
Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally hetero.
What is KS level 6?
Exclusively homosexual.
In the Kinsey Continuum, men and women are what percentage?
Men are 4% exclusively homosexual while women are 1-3%.
What are some components of the Kinsey Continuum?
There are challenges to the scale, it is not universally accepted. Views gay and heterosexuality orientations as polar opposites. They have different dimensions.
What is the Kinsey Scale?
A scale of heterosexual and homosexual experiences.
The right to join the military with discrimination happened when?
1992
The Hate Crimes Act, including for gay and lesbian people, was enacted when?
1995
When did parliament add sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act?
1996
When did civil marriage rights for same sex couples happen?
2005
What determines sexual orientation?
There is a biological perspective (genetics and orientation), prenatal influences, birth order.
What are monozygotic twins?
Identical twins (one egg, one sperm).
What are dizygotic twins?
Fraternal twins (two eggs, two sperm), technically no different than regular siblings in terms of genetics.
What is the sexual orientation concordance with monozygotic twins?
52%
What is the concordance for dizygotic twins?
22%
Coming out to oneself has 4 stages. What are they?
Attraction to members of the same sex, self-labeling, sexual contact, disclosure to others.
What are the components of coming out to others?
Simply that after you have come out to yourself, you come out to your family members and loved ones.
What are some things that can happen more to gay males and lesbian females?
They are more prone to suicide. They are also more likely to be physically/sexually abused, run away fro home, have suicidal attempts, not engage in organized sports/activities.
What is the reason that female/female sexual activity is not as common in non western countries?
It is theorized that this happens because females are more sexually repressed in these areas in a general sense.
For and Beach looked at 76 proliterate societies in 1952 and found what?
That 64% had male/male sexual interaction socially accepted. The other 36% had social sanctions.
