PSYC 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Romantic Orientation, Sexual Orientation, Xq28
31 Mar 2016
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Sexual orientaion is the most term used by researchers to ind out if you are atracted to man or women. Afecional orientaion: the interacion between afect and cogniion such that it produces atracion, eroic desire, and ulimately feelings of love for members of other sex, the same sex or both. The word homosexual didn"t even enter the english language unil the 1869. Homosexual word began evolving and the people viewed them as evil spirits or mentally ill. Heterosexual orientaion: an afecional orientaion where afect and cogniion are exclusively directed at members of the other sex. The same deiniion for same sex marriage and bisexual orientaion. David reuben is the everything you always wanted to ask about sex but were afraid to ask said that result of homosexual is the interest in penis but not the person. Kinsley scale range from 0-6 based on self-reported sexual behaviors and secondarily based on sexual desires and atracions.
