Terms

1
Terms

• Sexuality behaviors and/or thoughts with erotic
  meaning
• Sexual orientation describes the pattern on
  ones sexual attraction
• Sexual identity the self-described label one
  adopts to describe ones sexuality.

2
Terms

• Homosexual a person whose PRIMARY erotic,
  psychological, emotional, and social orientation
  is toward members of the same sex
• Gay a male homosexual
• Lesbian a female homosexual
• Bisexual (symposium) parallel sexual
  relationships with men and women
• Bisexual (sequential) alternating sexual
  relationships with one gender and then the other

3
Terms

• Transsexual persistent cross-gender identity,
  ensuing in a physical transformation
• Transgendered identity cross-gender identity,
  not ensuing in a physical alteration
• Transvestite persistent cross-dresser

4
Homophobia

• Homophobia irrational fears of homosexuality,
  the fear of the possibility of homosexuality in
  oneself, or self-loathing towards ones own
  homosexuality.
• Homohatred
• Heterosexism

5
How beliefs about homosexuality origins impact
attitudes (e.g., Wolfe, 1998)

• YES, homosexuals should have equal rights in
  terms of job opportunities
• OBJECT to having a homosexual as a childs
  schoolteacher
• WOULD PERMIT their child to play at the home of a
  friend who lives with a homosexual parent

• 69 CHOICE
• 90 BORN
• 71 CHOICE
• 39 BORN
• 21 CHOICE
• 50 BORN

6
Reparative therapy???

• Is there anything to repair?
• Value-based issue
• Homosexuality is not a disorder APA December 14,
  1973
• The results of reparative therapy
• For the therapist
• For the patient