Sexual Orientation

Question 1

What is a better alternative to the term sexual orientation?

Answer 1

Sexual preference

Question 2

What does MSM and WSW mean?

Answer 2

Men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women

Question 3

What is the difference between polysexual and pansexual?

Answer 3

Polysexuality refers to people who reject attraction to any genders, as genders are not perceived to be important. (Eg. they are also attracted to trans people)

Pansexuality is attraction towards people, regardless of gender or biological sex.

Question 4

What is the correct LGBT?

Answer 4

LGBTI

Sexual orientation

• Gay
• Lesbian
• Bisexual

Gender identity

• Transgender
• Intersex

Question 5

What is Storm’s two dimensional scheme?

Answer 5

A scheme for sexual identity.

From low to high homoerotisicm along the horizontal axis and high to low heteroerotisicm along the vertical axis.
- Four quadrants contain homosexuals, asexuals, bisexuals and heterosexuals

Question 6

What is 0 on Kinsey’s scale?

Answer 6

Exclusively heterosexual

Question 7

What are 3 myths about sexual orientation?

Answer 7

• A dichotomous model of sexual orientation exists (eg. completely homosexual or completely heterosexual)
• Gender is the primary criterion for sexual partner selection
• Sexual orientation is immutable (unchanging)

Question 8

What most negatively influences attitudes towards sexual minorities? (research)

Answer 8

Traditional gender role attitudes

Question 9

Who expresses the most negative feelings towards homosexuality? (research)

Answer 9

Those who believe it is learned.

Question 10

True or false? Most people are bisexual, either latent or manifest. (research)

Answer 10

Research indicates that this is true

Question 11

The vast majority of pedophiles are ____ (research)

Answer 11

Heterosexual men

Question 12

True or false? Research has found that same0gender sexual experience and orientation has occured across history and cultures?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What percentage of men and women have had same gender sexual experiences since puberty? (research)

Answer 13

9% of men

4.3% of women

Question 14

What percent of men and women report feeling desire for the same sex? (research)

Answer 14

44% of men

59% of women

Question 15

In men, the likelihood of being gay increases with the number of ____ (research)

Answer 15

older brothers

Only true of right handed

Question 16

What is a bigot?

Answer 16

A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own.

Question 17

What is the belief in the superiority of geterosexuality called?

Answer 17

Heterosexism

Question 18

What is cultural heterosexism?

Answer 18

Stigmatization, denial or denigration of non-heterosexuals in cultural institution ranging from the church to the courthouse

Question 19

What is psychological heterosexism?

Answer 19

A person’s internalization of a hetersexist worldview, which is expressed as antigay prejudice

Question 20

What are five ways in which heterosexism is expressed?

Answer 20

• Exclusion of sexual minorities in social, political, religious, scientific, medical and economic decision
• Assumption that sexual minorities should not marry or have children
• Excessive focus on sexial minorities and pathologies (eg. AIDS)
• Lack of supports comparable to those available to heterosexuals

Question 21

What is the most common expression of heterosexism?

Answer 21

The unintended or intended exclusion of sexual minorities.

Question 22

What is homophobia?

Answer 22

The irrational and persistent fear or hatred of sexual minorities

Question 23

What are five motives for homophobia?

Answer 23

• Religion
• Repressed envy
• Fear of being homosexual
• Threat to personal or societal values
• Threat to masculine norms

Question 24

What is same sex activity that occurs in certain situations, such as prisons, when people are deprived of their regular heterosexual activity?

Answer 24

Deprivation or situational homosexuality

Question 25

What was gay identity or gay rights movement formed in resistance to?

Answer 25

Overt homophobia

Question 26

What are four purposes for sexual identity categories?

Answer 26

- Gay identity formed in resistance to overt homophobia - Personal issues are also political - Wearing or performing non-normative sexual identities has moved from political to personal identity - The two were never separable

Question 27

Is sexual identity linked with gender performance?

Answer 27

Yes

Question 28

What are three reasons for increased mental health issues in LGBT individuals and youth?

Answer 28

- Lack of positive role models - Lack of support - Surplus of negative stereotypes

Question 29

Why is finding out how many people are LGB so hard?

Answer 29

Because people identify differently with different parts of it. Eg. some may be attracted to same sex, but not act on it. Others might identify as something but not really be attracted to it. Phrasing of the question is everything.

Question 30

What beliefs does modern homonegativity most reflect?

Answer 30

Gay men and lesbians exaggerate the importance of their sexual orientation and/or make unnecessary demands for social change

Question 31

whos the best?

Answer 31

you are!

Question 32

What is the definition of coming out?

Answer 32

The process of acknowledging to oneself, and then to others, that one is gay or lesbian

Question 33

What are the sex steps of forming a sexual identity?

Answer 33

- Identity confusion - Identity comparison - Identity tolerance - Identity acceptance - Identity pride (us vs. them) - Identity synthesis (accepting heteros as well)

Question 34

What does finger size have to do with likeliness for being lesbian?

Answer 34

Men's index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers, compared with women's. Lesbians have a shorter index finger, just like men's.

Question 35

What does interactionist theory say about homosexuality?

Answer 35

That girls or boys who don't conform to their own gender roles will find members of their own sex that do exotic and therefore erotic.