Module 11 Sexual Orientation and It's Classification
Module 11 Sexual Orientation and It's Classification
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SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Sexual orientation is the emotional, romantic, or
sexual attraction that a person feels toward another
person.
Sometimes sexual orientation has been measured
by how people define themselves, by their sexual
experience, or by their attractions.
SEVERAL TYPES OF SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
•HETEROSEXUAL •HOMOSEXUAL
People who are heterosexual are People who are homosexual are
romantically and physically attracted romantically and physically attracted to
to members of the opposite sex: people of the same sex: Females who are
Heterosexual males are attracted to attracted to other females are lesbian;
females, and heterosexual females are males who are attracted to other males
attracted to males. Heterosexuals are are often known as gay. (The term gay is
sometimes called "straight." sometimes used to describe homosexual
individuals of either sex.)
SEVERAL TYPES OF SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
•BISEXUAL •ASEXUAL
People who are bisexual are People who are asexual may not
romantically and physically be interested in sex, but they still
attracted to members of both feel emotionally close to other
people.
sexes.
SEVERAL TYPES OF SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
Heterosexual. People who are heterosexual are romantically and physically attracted to
members of the opposite sex: Heterosexual males are attracted to females, and
heterosexual females are attracted to males. Heterosexuals are sometimes called "straight."
Homosexual. People who are homosexual are romantically and physically attracted to
people of the same sex: Females who are attracted to other females are lesbian; males who
are attracted to other males are often known as gay. (The term gay is sometimes used to
describe homosexual individuals of either sex.)
Bisexual. People who are bisexual are romantically and physically attracted to members of
both sexes.
Asexual. People who are asexual may not be interested in sex, but they still feel
emotionally close to other people.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
- IS A HOMOSEXUAL
WOMAN WHO IS
ROMANTICALLY OR
SEXUALLY
ATTRACTED TO OTHER
WOMEN.
GAY
- IS A HOMOSEXUAL MAN
WHO IS ROMANTICALLY
OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED
TO OTHER MEN.
BISEXUALITY
- IS ROMANTIC ATTRACTION,
SEXUAL ATTRACTION, OR SEXUAL
BEHAVIOUR TOWARD BOTH
MALES AND FEMALES, OR
ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL
ATTRACTION TO PEOPLE OF ANY
SEX OR GENDER IDENTITY; THIS
LATTER ASPECT IS SOMETIMES
ALTERNATIVELY TERMED
PANSEXUALITY.
TRANSGENDER
- PEOPLE HAVE A
GENDER IDENTITY OR
GENDER EXPRESSION
THAT DIFFERS FROM
THEIR ASSIGNED SEX.
QUEER
- ARE PEOPLE
QUESTIONING THEIR
SEXUAL IDENTITY.
GAY PRIDE WAS NOT
BORN OF A NEED TO
CELEBRATE BEING
GAY, BUT OUR RIGHT
TO EXIST WITHOUT
PERSECUTION. SO
INSTEAD OF
WONDERING WHY
THERE ISN'T A
STRAIGHT PRIDE
MOVEMENT, BE
THANKFUL YOU
DON'T NEED ONE.
WHAT CAUSES
HOMOSEXUALITY?
In 1993, a study published in the journal Science
showed that families with two homosexual
brothers were very likely to have certain genetic
markers on a region of the X chromosome known
as X28.