SOC 152A Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Alfred Kinsey, Kinsey Scale, Gender Variance
Ch 12 & Pg 298.8-301end &pg 330.7-331end
●Kinsey scale - 7 pt scale of sexual orientation by alfred kinsey
○Not used widely today
■Instead there is a 5 pt scale
●More men than women are exclusively homosexual
●More women than men are equally attracted to both sexes
●Gender - variant - atypical in gender characteristics
BOX 12.1
●Boys will be girls
○66 families with feminine boys
○Mist became gay or bisexual
○Childhood characteristics are not entirely predictive of adult orientation
○Some gay men recall having a very masculine childhood
●Psychodynamic theories or biological theories of sexual orientation
○Psychodynamic theories attempt to explain the development of a person’s
sexual orientation in terms of internal mental processes, especially as they are
affected by interaction with others, rewards, and punishments
○Biological theories attempt to explain sexual orientation in terms of phenomena
such as brain circuitry, hormones, genes, and evolution
■Most common theory is that everything's depends on androgen levels
during a sensitive period of prenatal development
●Gynephilic - sexually attracted to women
●Androphilic - sexually attracted to men
●Medial preoptic area - a region if the hypothalamus involved in the regulation of
sexual behavior typically shown by males
●INAH3-third interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus - a neuronal cell group
in the hypothalamus that differs in size between men and women and between gay and
straight men
BOX 12.2
●Why gay genes?
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