PSY354H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Homophobia, Prenatal Development, Penis Envy
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Sexual orientation: the direction of a person"s sexual feelings toward persons of the same sex, the other sex, or both sexes. Heterosexuality: sexual attraction only (or predominantly) to persons of the other sex. Homosexuality: sexual attraction only (or predominantly) to persons of one"s own sex. Bisexuality: sexual attraction to persons of both sexes. Lesbian: homosexual applied to women only. At least 85-90% of en and women say that they are attracted sexually only to persons of the other sex, and another several percent say that they are attracted mostly to the other sex. Less than 2% of men and less than 1% of women say that they are attracted only to persons of the same sex as themselves. More men than women are exclusively homosexual, whereas more women than men fall in the intermediate group representing various degrees of bisexuality.
