Theories and etiologies of sexual orientation.

Rosario, Margaret; Schrimshaw, Eric W.

doi:10.1037/14193-018

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“…It captures a set of features that seem to resonate as a meaningful dimension for many people and does so alongside and separate from identities and statuses (Rosario & Schrimshaw, 2014). I am thus arguing that orientation is worth retaining and reclaiming and I have tried to use it in this sense in Sexual Configurations.…”

Section: Limitations Of Existing Theories About Sexual Orientationmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The very concept of multifaceted sexual configurations raises the concept of alignment, discordance, or incongruence (Chivers, Rieger, Latty, & Bailey, 2004;Korchmaros et al, 2013;Rosario & Schrimshaw, 2014). These terms suggest there is one right or correct combination or overlap of identities, orientations, and statuses, or a correct mix of parameters.…”

Section: Beyond Alignment: Sexual Configurations Can Be Branched or Cmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…What are these theories? They often are unarticulated assumptions, or''pre-theory,''that can be read through their enactments like measurement (for reviews of sexual orientation theories and limitations, see Longino, 2013;Rosario & Schrimshaw, 2014).…”

Section: Limitations Of Existing Theories About Sexual Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Attending to sexual orientation, 3 sexual identity, and sexual behavior (see Table 1 for definitions of these terms) as related but distinct phenomena could be crucial to scientific theories of sexualities and also to making meaning of sexual lives as many have argued (Klein, Sepekoff, & Wolf, 1985;Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, & Michaels, 1994;Rosario & Schrimshaw, 2014;.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Sexual orientation is largely used as the primary way to describe a person's sexuality (Katz-Wise & Hyde, 2014;Rosario & Schrimshaw, 2014). Since understandings of sexual orientation generally revolve around gender, this means that gender is the de facto foundation for categorizing sexuality.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

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Sexual orientation typically describes people's sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality--gender/sex and partner number. SCT also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using SCT and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that SCT changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research.

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Section: Limitations Of Existing Theories About Sexual Orientationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Beyond Alignment: Sexual Configurations Can Be Branched or Cmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Limitations Of Existing Theories About Sexual Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Young sexual minority women's definition of community: Toward addressing health disparities in the LGBTQQ community

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Bauermeister

2017

Journal Community Psychology

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In accord with Healthy People 2020 goals, the elimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) health disparities will require community-level strategies to address stigma, discrimination, and prejudice linked to poor health. We explored how young sexual minority women (YSMW) define LGBTQQ community, community connection, community engagement, and community tensions because these concepts have implications for development and evaluation of health disparities interventions. A total of 30 YSMW (aged 18-24 years) from Michigan participated in semistructured, in-depth interviews. Participants varied by sexual identity, residency, and race/ethnicity. We analyzed transcribed interviews using thematic analysis and compared emergent themes across sexual identity, residency, and race/ethnicity. Women described community connection in terms of organizational involvement, participation in LGBTQQ spaces, and collective social identity. Participants noted how community connections were linked to stigma towards the LGBTQQ community. YSMW highlighted how divisive tensions exist within subgroups constituting the LGBTQQ community, hindering opportunities for social advocacy, unified policy priorities, and community-level interventions. The heterogeneity of YSMW's experiences identifying with the LGBTQQ community and engaging within LGBTQQ spaces suggest that researchers should attend to the role of community dynamics when developing health disparities interventions and policies. Efforts to reconcile tensions within the LGBTQQ community may strengthen and advance policymakers' ability to address sexuality-related disparities.

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Cultural Self 2: Gender and Sex, Disability, and Age

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2019

Reflective Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy in a Diverse Society

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Theories and etiologies of sexual orientation.

Cited by 50 publications

References 219 publications

Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

Young sexual minority women's definition of community: Toward addressing health disparities in the LGBTQQ community

Cultural Self 2: Gender and Sex, Disability, and Age

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