Sexual Orientation.

Question 1

Who was the first american to look into sexual orientation?

Answer 1

Alfred Kinsey

Question 2

What books did Alfred Kinsey write?

Answer 2

• Sexual behavior in the human male

- Sexual behaviors in the human female

Question 3

What was so influential about Alfred work?

Answer 3

• He said that masturbating would not lead to brain damage
• He also said that 37% of men and 13% of women experienced same sex relations
• He was the first to seriously consider the vast variety in how people experience and act upon sexual desires

Question 4

What does our sexual orientation determine?

Answer 4

The people that we might become romantically and sexually involved with.

Question 5

What is Sexual Orientation?

Answer 5

The way in which we peruse love, attachment, and meaningful social connections with other people.

Question 6

Although most people think of Sexual orientation as a trait that resides within a person, it is better described as what?

Answer 6

A relationship concept.

Question 7

What is a romantic attraction?

Answer 7

feelings of infatuation, love, and emotional desire for another person

Question 8

What is sexual arousal?

Answer 8

A physiological response to same sex and different sex people

Question 9

What is sexual attraction?

Answer 9

Fantasies, feelings of lust, and erotic desire for another person.

Question 10

What is sexual behavior?

Answer 10

The overt sexual interactions a person engages in with another person

Question 11

What is sexual identity?

Answer 11

The way a person understands and labels his or her attraction to, and sexual interactions with, other people

Question 12

Do sexual attractions, behaviors, and identities always correspond?

Answer 12

no

Question 13

What is sexual fluidity?

Answer 13

The idea that the sexual attractions can change, and that people have the capacity to grow more attracted or less attracted to men or to women, regardless of their general sexual orientation.

Question 14

What can cause a change in sexual attraction?

Answer 14

Past relationships
who is available
Local norms

Question 15

What is asexuality?

Answer 15

a lack of sexual desire and sexual attraction

Question 16

What are sexual minorities?

Answer 16

Being different from same sex peers.

Question 17

What are the four categories that are used to determine sexual orientation?

Answer 17

Straight
Bisexual
Asexual
Gay or lesbian

Question 18

true or false:

Men are less likely then women to identify as completely straight or gay

Answer 18

FALSE

Question 19

Are patterns of sexual arousal the same or different in men and women?

Answer 19

Nope,

Females are more likely to be fluid than men in their sexual desires

Question 20

when looking at twins and their sexuality, what twins demonstrated a greater likelihood of homosexuality?

Answer 20

Monozygous twins

Question 21

What percent of monogamous twins will share the same sexual orientation

Answer 21

24%

Question 22

How does high levels of testosterone affect a persons sexual orientation?

Answer 22

High levels of testosterone foreshadows same sex attraction,
especially in women.

Question 23

How can the measurements of fingers help to identify their sexual orientation?

Answer 23

Parental homones affect how your hands/fingers grow.

Lesbian women have hands that are closer to mens hands than womans hands.

there is no difference between gay men and straight and hands

Question 24

What emerges first gender nonconformity or sexual orientation?

Answer 24

Gender nonconformity

Question 25

What is nonconformity

Answer 25

The extent to which a persons appearance, behavior, and interests differ from what is considered typical or common for his or her gender.

Question 26

When examine children who were “noncomformitive” how much more likey were they to be gay 24 years later

Answer 26

10 times more likely.

Question 27

Do parenting practices influence sexual orientation?

Answer 27

Nope

if you are raised by gay or straight parents it will not influence your sexual orientation.

Question 28

Are social and environmental factors primary or secondary to biological factors when it comes to sexual orientation?

Answer 28

They are secondary

you don’t choose to be gay, you just are

Question 29

True or false:

Sexual fluidity suggests that social factors affect social expression.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

How do social interactions effect your sexual attractions and identity?

Answer 30

Social, cultural, and personal factors contribute to how biological predisposition will be expressed and labeled.

Question 31

Sexual attraction corresponds more closely to its expression, is this more true for men or for women?

Answer 31

For women

Question 32

What is the key feature for Sexual orientation?

Answer 32

Sexual attraction.

Question 33

What is an unbiased way of measuring sexual arousal?

Answer 33

Measuring pupil dilation

Question 34

is it common or uncommon for people to have had same sex relationships, and then decided to be straight afterwards?

Answer 34

This is rather common of an experience for most people.

Question 35

True or false:

Women seem to be able to sexualize whoever they love; men tend to love the person they sexualize

Answer 35

True.

Question 36

In what % of the population do people record having a lack of sexual desire and attraction?

Answer 36

around 1%

Question 37

What is one of the main regions that people look into for cause of Homosexuality?

Answer 37

Looking through genes to see if there is a GAY gene.

quoted from prof

Question 38

What are the odds of predicting someones sexual orientation based off of their genetics?

Answer 38

1/3 of the time they get it right.

Question 39

True or false:

It is easy to change sexual orientation.

Answer 39

FALSE

Question 40

What are some of the major caveats in sexual minorities relationships?

Answer 40

• Period effects
• Studies failed to look at Representative samples
• Must avoid Heteronormativity

Question 41

What is a period effect?

Answer 41

How a certain period in time can influence the results of a experiment.

Question 42

What is Heteronormatity?

Answer 42

The belief that because heterosexual unions are the norm, that they are the standard that all other partnerships should be judged.

Question 43

What is minority stress?

Answer 43

Excess stress to which individuals from stigmatized social categories are exposed as a result of their social, often minority, position.

Question 44

Exposure to minority stress can have what effect on a homosexual relationship?

Answer 44

internal homonegitivity.

“Something is wring with me, something is wrong with my partner because we are gay”

Question 45

Sexual minorities report the same level of social support as heterosexual couples, although the source of the support is different. How is it different?

Answer 45

Homosexual couples revive more support from friends and community (as primary)

Heterosexual coupes receive more support from family (as primary)

Question 46

Is there any difference between homosexual and heterosexual couples?

Answer 46

There are very few differences.

• They sort out problems the same
• They change over time the same
• Same levels of satisfaction

Question 47

True/false:

Same sex couples resolve conflict better.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

When it comes to sexuality, Do homosexual relations differ?

Answer 48

Yes,
-Gay relationships have more frequent sex (inside and outside their relationship)

-lesbians have less sex, but have longer duration and more frequent organisms.

Question 49

What is internalized homonegitivity?

Answer 49

When someone develops a negative view of their sexuality due to social prejudice and alienation.

Question 50

What is division of labor?

Answer 50

How work is split up within a relationship.