Orientation

sexual orientation often takes a dichotomous stance with one side supporting an innate, biological view, and the other as being acquired environmentally. Recently the focus has shifted towards an exploration into innate, biological origins such as genetics and endocrinology, as potential influences on homosexual development. Society tends to fall into the fallacy of thinking that behaviour is an either-or phenomenon, and that these factors are mutually exclusive. It should become apparent throughout this evaluation that this oversimplification of dividing development into distinct categories is too simplistic, and much more appropriate to view its development as an interaction between the two.…

Prejudice Based on Sexual Orientation Hello Toowoomba Region Council. How many people here today have a clear identity of sexual orientation? Most of you know your sexual orientation very well, how many of you are heterosexual. The result is almost the same. Heterosexuality covers the majority of the population, social prejudice against gays and lesbians is becoming an unignorable issue. Many people hold their attitude or opinions because other people do. You will think the opinions hold by…

There is a very well-known debate about whether sexual orientation is determined at birth. One side states that sexual orientation is a choice and you can choose to be heterosexual. The other side states that homosexuality is not something you can control and people are born gay. Both sides have valid points and statements and are free to believe what they wish. There are many factors that determine a person’s sexual orientation at birth: brain hemisphere dominance, hormones one receives during…

Sexual orientation imbalance is a social issue in which individuals get unequal treatment because of their sex. This social matter shows up in many parts of the world because of different people's viewpoints – with a few zones having a more pervasive and unbending sexual orientation hole than in different spots. One of the areas known to have overflowing sex disparity is Latin America, as sexual orientation inclination is conspicuous in these nations through ideas, for example, machismo and…

Sexual orientation and inequality Name Institution affiliation Sexual orientation and inequality Until recently same-sex marriage was illegal in the United States. People were arrested for being illegal for violating sodomy laws. The laws were finally outlawed in the year 2003 by the Texas court after a 6-3 was passed. The court asserted that all people have a constitutional right to engage in a consensual and private activity which anyone prefers. However, same-sex couples still face many…

The very definition of sexual orientation emphasizes on attraction. According to Hill and Dawood (2012), because attraction captures the essence of sexual orientation (i.e., having a particular direction), and is perhaps less likely than behaviour or identity to be influenced by cultural and societal norms, many early researchers focus on the biological basis of sexual orientation. This idea is strongly linked to essentialism- believing that some phenomena are innate, central to one’s identity,…

Have you ever wondered why elementary schools or any schools in general do not include sexual orientation in the curriculum? We do not start to learn about queerness until we are placed in a higher academic environment. Why is that? Is it because they do not think grade school students are mature enough to handle the information? Or is it because they do not want to influence homosexuality as acceptable? I was never taught about the LGBQT community until I started taking communication classes in…

affection bonding process may help us understand sexual orientation better, Diamond concluded. She thought that more attention to these processes would help us understand how and why people show separate patterns of desires, and love for same-gender and other gender partners over their lifetime. (2003) Dr. Doreen Kimura (1996) thought sexual orientation to be associated with cognitive abilities. She reviewed studies that related to sex and sexual orientation, on the influence of sex hormones…

irst of all, in evaluating this website already implied a very conservative view on homosexuality. Usually the liberal(and everyone who supports and respects homosexuality)says sexual orientation is something that we cannot choose, but just an inborn nature that we have to accept and has to be respected just as other fundamental human rights. However, after reading this article and our textbook on queer theory and the four current theories on the different factors that may contribute to a…

Discrimination among Orientation "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". If we are an equal, free and fair country, what makes gays and lesbians so different that they need to have bills and laws passed to just for them to do what a traditional family can do with no problem? Gays and lesbians are consistently denied their rights that are usually taken for granted by the average American. It 's unfair to categorize gay and lesbian couples when they are human…