PSYC 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rough Play, Psychosexual Development, Gender Variance
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Spectrum of sexual orientations sexual orientation: direction of a person"s sexual feelings. Heterosexuality and homosexuality lie on ends of continuum and bisexuality lies between the two endpoints. Kinsey developed 7 point scale ranged from group 0 (exclusively hetero) to group 6 (exclusively homo). Surveys shows more men than women are exclusively homosexual, whereas more women than men fall into groups representing various degrees of bisexuality. Sexual orientation is not an isolated trait gender variant: atypical in gender characteristics. Levay study shows gay people on average differ in some gender related traits from straight people of same sex: during childhood, boys who become gay mend engage less in rough play, aggressive behavior, and athletics. Lesbians do better in male favoring tests such as mental rotation gender atypical: gay and bisexual men say they are less masculine and lesbians/bisexual women say they are less feminine than straight women.
