PSY 0818 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stone Butch, Anal Sex, Nonconformist
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Perspectives on gay male and lesbian sexual orientations. Evolutionary perspective: altruism (bound by emotion), higher rates of fertility in women related to gay men. Genetics and the brain: x chromosome may carry a gene, difference in brain size/structure. Psychoanalytic: unconscious conflict, failure to resolve the. Learning theories: reinforcement of early patterns of sexual behavior. Extra credit-which animals have sex for pleasure. Disconnect in a person"s gender role and anatomic sex. People are becoming more supportive of gay rights and gay marriage. It"s not okay to be all for gay rights and not allow gays to get married. They"re missing out on the benefits of marriage (discounts, joint- ownership, etc) Makes couples feel like they"re in the other" category. People should not have to settle for this (obama said this was good enough because he didn"t want to upset religions) Some gays are religious themselves-makes it hard to separate the two of them (problem with separation of church and state)
