PSYB30H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fetus, Nicotine, Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation
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Lisa diamond identified 3 distinct groups of women: Consistent in labelling themselves as lesbian or not. Alternated between the two identities sometimes as lesbian, sometimes unlabelled. Diamond stated that terms lesbian and bisexual do not account for non-heterosexual women"s experiences and should be abandoned. Recommended we think of sexual orientation and flexibility, what she called fluidity, as two separate dimensions of individual difference. Women with a fluid sexual orientation are capable of experiencing a wider range of erotic experiences and feelings than the label lesbian , bisexual or hetero implies. Heteronormativity: heterosexuality is taken for granted and provides people with distinct legal, political and social advantages in american society. Until alfred kinsey came along in 1940"s people thought sexual orientation was one of three boxes. Realized sexual behaviour occurred along a continuum from exclusively hetero to exclusively homo. Before kinsey people assumed sexual orientation followed from personality (i. e. feminine man being gay)
