Sexual Orientation as Interpretation? Sexual Desires, Concepts, and Choice

Polyamory as a Sexual Orientation

Controlling desires: sexual orientation conversion and the limits of knowledge and law.

INTRODUCTION........................................................................1299 I. THE QUEST FOR “CURES” ......................................................1303 II. FAILED EFFORTS TO MAKE “HOMOSEXUALS” SICK......1311 A. WHAT MAKES A PERSON MENTALLY ILL .............................1313 B. THE DEPATHOLOGIZATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY.................1316 C. CAUSAL THEORIES OF DISORDER........

Cancer survivorship and sexual orientation.

BACKGROUND Lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations are not part of cancer surveillance, resulting in scarce information about the cancer survivorship of these populations. To address this information gap, the authors examined the prevalence of cancer survivorship by sexual orientation and cancer survivors' self-reported health by sexual orientation. METHODS The authors explored these issues by...

Social Dominance and Sexual Orientation

Summary Heterosexual males are reported to display higher levels of physical aggression and lower levels of empathy than homosexual males. A characteristic linked to both aggression and empathy is social dominance orientation (SDO). A significant sex difference has been reported for SDO, with heterosexual males scoring higher than heterosexual females. The precise relationship between dominance...

Sexual orientation and spatial memory.

The present study aimed at determining the influence of sexual orientation in human spatial learning and memory. Participants performed the Boxes Room, a virtual reality version of the Holeboard. In Experiment I, a reference memory task, the position of the hidden rewards remained constant during the whole experiment. In Experiment II, a working memory task, the position of rewards changed betw...