PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Alpha-Fetoprotein, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Defeminization
15 Apr 2014
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Non- normative sexuality 1: preferred sexual partners- mostly opposite but flexibility with women, politics of homosexuality- still very controversial because people are obsessed with sex. Origins of homosexuality: used to think people chose to be gay, platoe- 3 sexes- 2 bodies in 1 body: male- male; female- female; male-female, pissed off gods so split them into 2 ripping them apart- sadness. Freud- thought bisexual is normal (naturally) and he was bisexual: were id- sex and aggression- biological process. If not good parenting- protective mother/ cold father- will be gay: thought you can be cured, used to be a disease until the 1970s, egodestonic- gay and hate yourself. Evidence: no difference between parenting and homosexuals, found in non-human animals, not curable, sex orientation- homosexuality was always there- biological process. Gay males insufficiently defeminized/ masculinized (very small: slight difference- affects sexual orientation, gay females-> defeminized/ masculinized. Incomplete sexual differentiation of brain leads to sex- atypical reproduction behaviours in adulthood: organizational- activational hypothesis.
