01:920:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Heteroflexibility, Polysexuality, Sexual Fluidity
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Specific sexual orientations include whether an individual: engages in sexual behavior with men, women both or neither, feels sexual desire for men, women, both or neither, falls in love with men, women, both or neither. Types of sexual orientations: homosexual: orientation toward same sex, bisexual: orientation toward both same and other sex, heterosexual: orientation toward other sex, asexual: no sexual attraction toward either sex. Note, within these orientations, a variation exists. Heteroflexibility and homoflexibility: primary heterosexual or homosexual. Sapiosexual: a person who finds intelligence to be the most sexually attractive feature of others: refer to sexual attract, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender. Variability in same-sex and other-sex attraction and involvement at different times and different situations throughout the life span: significantly more women have experimented sexually with the same sex. Asexuality: someone who does not experience sexual attraction most asexual people have been their whole lives.