PHM-3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Constructionism, Bisexuality, Kinsey Scale
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Sexual orientation can involve many sorts of attractions, so that it appears that some people can be attracted to traits or features that have little or no connection to sex. Can sexual orientation help us understand these forms of sexuality? p. 196. 2008 paper in developmental psychology (lm diamond) found that bisexuality is a. But university of pittsburgh (2012) study found that most adults do not recognize bisexuality as a real orientation. Even if most people experience a consistent and stable attraction to one or another sex across their lives, some experience their sexuality as fluid and changing. Can the concept of sexual orientation handle both types, or are those fluid sexualities not captured by it? p. 196. Interpretive social constructionism argues that, even if sexual desires remain the same across different cultures, individuals must engage in some self-interpretation of these feelings in light of social practices and that this self-interpretation changes the feelings themselves. p. 206.
