Lecture 8

Question 1

What is sexuality?

Answer 1

• Sex biology
• gender culture
• sexuality
• biology/culture

Hearn and Parkin, (1987):
- The social expression of, or social relations to physical bodily desires real or imagined by or for others, or for oneself, together with the related bodily states and experiences

Question 2

Who is LeVay and what did LeVay do in relation to Nuclei of the hypothalamus?

Answer 2

1991 study:

• Obtained brain tissue from 41 subjects/participants
• 19 homosexual men (their homosexuality was noted in their medical records)
• 16 (presumed) heterosexual men
• 6 (presumed) heterosexual women

LeVay, (1991, 1035):
- I hypothesised that INAH 2 or INAH 3 is large in individuals sexually orientated towards women (heterosexual men and homosexual women) and small individuals sexually oriented towards men (heterosexual women and homosexual men)

Question 3

Who is Bailey/Hamer?

Answer 3

• Xq28
• Bailey and Pillard, (1991)
• Hamer et al., (1993)
• Bailey and others, (2015)

Question 4

What is meant by the word ‘Homophobe’?

Answer 4

• Traditional restrictive attitudes to gender roles
• less likely to report homosexual B and self identification
• perceive peer group as also sharing views
• less reported contact with gay/homosexual people
• older and less well educated
• more religious and inculcate conservative ideology