Sexual Orientation

Question 1

What is KS level 0?

Answer 1

Exclusively hetero.

Question 2

What is KS level 1?

Answer 2

Predominantly hetero, incidentally homosexual.

Question 3

What is KS Level 2?

Answer 3

Predominantly hetero, but more than incidentally homosexual.

Question 4

What is KS level 3?

Answer 4

Equally hetero and homosexual.

Question 5

What is KS level 4?

Answer 5

Predominantly homosexual, more than incidentally hetero.

Question 6

What is KS Level 5?

Answer 6

Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally hetero.

Question 7

What is KS level 6?

Answer 7

Exclusively homosexual.

Question 8

In the Kinsey Continuum, men and women are what percentage?

Answer 8

Men are 4% exclusively homosexual while women are 1-3%.

Question 9

What are some components of the Kinsey Continuum?

Answer 9

There are challenges to the scale, it is not universally accepted. Views gay and heterosexuality orientations as polar opposites. They have different dimensions.

Question 10

What is the Kinsey Scale?

Answer 10

A scale of heterosexual and homosexual experiences.

Question 11

The right to join the military with discrimination happened when?

Answer 11

1992

Question 12

The Hate Crimes Act, including for gay and lesbian people, was enacted when?

Answer 12

1995

Question 13

When did parliament add sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act?

Answer 13

1996

Question 14

When did civil marriage rights for same sex couples happen?

Answer 14

2005

Question 15

What determines sexual orientation?

Answer 15

There is a biological perspective (genetics and orientation), prenatal influences, birth order.

Question 16

What are monozygotic twins?

Answer 16

Identical twins (one egg, one sperm).

Question 17

What are dizygotic twins?

Answer 17

Fraternal twins (two eggs, two sperm), technically no different than regular siblings in terms of genetics.

Question 18

What is the sexual orientation concordance with monozygotic twins?

Answer 18

52%

Question 19

What is the concordance for dizygotic twins?

Answer 19

22%

Question 20

Coming out to oneself has 4 stages. What are they?

Answer 20

Attraction to members of the same sex, self-labeling, sexual contact, disclosure to others.

Question 21

What are the components of coming out to others?

Answer 21

Simply that after you have come out to yourself, you come out to your family members and loved ones.

Question 22

What are some things that can happen more to gay males and lesbian females?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

What is the reason that female/female sexual activity is not as common in non western countries?

Answer 23

It is theorized that this happens because females are more sexually repressed in these areas in a general sense.

Question 24

For and Beach looked at 76 proliterate societies in 1952 and found what?

Answer 24

That 64% had male/male sexual interaction socially accepted. The other 36% had social sanctions.