SOCL 2505 Midterm: Exam 2
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Sexual identity new creation: sexual identities, sexual identity: a set of sexual practices and attitudes leading to the formation in a person"s mind of an identity as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual; helps us to define who we are, don"t ask, don"t tell provades everything that we do; this identity that we agree upon so this persons gay and it means a certain thing, the emergence of sexual identities, sexual acts vs. Male and female sexual roles are the preferred: integrative perspective: belief that sexuality is determined by both social and biological factors, social constructionist perspective, kinsey report 1948 bestseller containing thousands of interviews w/ men and women, half of all men in his sample reported erotic feelings towards men, one third had at least one sexual experience with another man, kinsey concluded that 10% of males were more or less exclusively homosexual for at least 3 yrs.
