PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pansexuality, Male Prostitution, Heterosexism

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Abbreviation for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersexed, allied, asexual, pansexual, and two-spirited people. An all-encompassing term for minority sexual and gender orientations. The gender(s) that a person is attracted to emotionally, physically, and romantically. Kinsey and colleagues believed sexual orientation better represented on a continuum: seven-point scale from exclusively heterosexual behaviour to exclusively homosexual behaviour, emphasizes behaviour and is static in time. The klein sexual orientation grid (ksog) expanded kinsey"s continuum: expanded dimensions and incorporated past, present, and ideal. Sexual attraction to the same sex when there was no knowledge of same-sex attraction before. Ability to be fluid in your sexuality, that is move back and forth between women and men. Other aspects to sexual fluidity as well. Surveys indicate that the frequency of same-sex behaviour has remained fairly constant over the years despite changes in the political climates of nations.

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