PSYC 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Asexuality, Sexual Orientation, Masturbation
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They experience no sexual attraction but may still experience romantic attraction in terms of psychological intimacy. Differs from sexual abstinence (conscious decision of not having sex). Difference is not in the pleasure genital stimulation and orgasm can provide, but in the interpersonal aspect of sexual desire. Positive: more free time, spared complications of negotiating sexual relationships. Negative: worry about what"s wrong with them, difficulty maintaining close relationships, rebuffing sexual advances. Sexual orientation predisposition to experience sexual attraction to one sex or the other. Transgender - anatomy of one sex but the gender identity of the other. Transsexual subset of the transgender individuals who seek to change their body into that of the other sex by medical means. Gender dysphoria - unhappiness caused by discordance between a person"s anatomical sex and gender preference. F-to-m (trans men) usually like women but consider themselves straight. Classical attracted to men, consider themselves straight. Transitioning changing one"s physical sex and social gender.
