HLWL 1109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Heterosexuality, Employment Discrimination, Puritans
24 Dec 2016
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Kinsey: 7-point scale ranging from exclusively heterosexual behavior to exclusively homosexual behavior. Suggest that people engage in complex sexual behaviors that cannot be reduced simply to homosexual to heterosexual. Kinsey primarily emphasized people"s behavior, but some researchers suggest that people"s emotions and fantasies are the most important determinants of sexual orientation. Static in time: why are there different sexual orientations? (1930s-1940s): group of scientists tried to explain homosexuality by looking for masculine traits in lesbians and feminine traits in homosexual men. Claim that gay men had broad shoulders and narrow hips. Hamer and colleagues found that gay males tend to have more gay relatives on their mother"s side but not on father"s side. If homosexuality were solely a genetic trait, it should have disappeared long ago. Because homosexuals have been less likely than heterosexuals to have children, each successive generation of homosexuals should have become smaller.
