9. Sexual Orientations

Question 0

What is asexuality?

Answer 0

A lack of sexual attraction to either sex

Question 1

What is bisexuality?

Answer 1

Sexual attraction to both men and women

Question 2

Kinsey’s continuum of sexual orientation?

Answer 2

0: exclusively heterosexual with no homosexual
1: predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2: predominantly heterosexual but more than incidentally homosexual
3: equally homosexual and heterosexual
4: predominantly homosexual but more than incidentally heterosexual
5: predominant homosexual but incidentally heterosexual
6: exclusively homosexual with no heterosexual

Question 3

What is sexual fluidity?

Answer 3

Variability in same sex and other sex attraction and involvement at different times and in different situations throughout the life span

Question 4

What do men and women after 1970 refer to themselves as?

Answer 4

Queer

Question 5

What does LGBTQ stand for?

Answer 5

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning

• term used in discussions of civil rights for no heterosexual people

Question 6

What are some myths of what determines sexual orientation?

Answer 6

by default myth
- some ppl believe that unhappy heterosexual experiences cause a person to become homosexual

Seduction myth
- some ppl believe that young women and men become homosexual because they have been deducted by older homosexual people or because they have “caught” it from someone else.

Freuds theory
- implicated both childhood experiences and relationships with parents.

Question 7

What is gender nonconformity?

Answer 7

A lack of conformity to stereotypical masculine and feminine behaviors

Question 8

Hw was homosexuality portrayed from the early to mid 1900s?

Answer 8

From sin to sickness.

Question 9

Gay affirmative therapy?

Answer 9

Therapy to help homosexual clients cope with negative societal attitudes

Question 10

Conversion therapy/sexual reorientation therapy?

Answer 10

Therapy to help homosexual men and women change their sexual orientation

Question 11

What is homophobia?

Answer 11

Irrational fears of homosexuality, the fear of the possibility of homosexuality in oneself, or loathing toward ones own homosexuality

Question 12

What is heterosexism?

Answer 12

Beliefs that stigmatize and denigrate any behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities that are not heterosexual.

Question 13

Why are there hate crimes?

Answer 13

They are related to traditional gender roles

Often an attempt to deny or suppress homosexual feelings in oneself

Question 14

What are the steps to coming out?

Answer 14

1. Self acknowledgement
2. Self acceptance
3. Disclosure
4. Telling the family
5. Becoming involved in the gay community: sense of belonging

Question 15

What is passing?

Answer 15

Presenting a false image of being heterosexual

Question 16

Guidelines for coming out to friends?

Answer 16

1. Form a supportive network
2. Choose the first person to tell
3. Practice mentally
4. Plan in advance
5. Rely on patience
6. Control your anger

Question 17

Same sex couples revealed some interesting strengths in comparison to different sex relationships. What were they?

Answer 17

1. Used more affection and humor in the face of conflict and disagreement
2. We’re more likely to remain positive after disagreement
3. Displayed less belligerence etc with each other.

Question 18

Why is the stonewall riot so significant?

Answer 18

1960s

Ny: police raided a gay bar, patrons fought back

Served as a catalyst for the formation of gay rights groups

Parades are held yearly to commemorate the incident

Question 19

What is sodomy?

Answer 19

Oral or anal sex between adults of any sexual orientation

Question 20

When was the national gay and lesbian task force founded?

Answer 20

1973 to help meet the second goal of activists: ending various kinds of discrimination against homosexuals.

Question 21

Major legislative goal?

Answer 21

1964: civil rights act amended- favoring gays