What Causes Sexual Orientation Sexual orientation is a largely controversial subject in today’s society. And in the topic of sexual orientation‚ there is a question that is always asked. “What causes or determines the sexual orientation of a human being‚ and can sexual orientation be changed?” There is no set answer to this because there are multiple theories and components that contribute to sexual orientation. Almost all theories fall under the ideology category because of all the different
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Diversity in Sexual Orientation by Jason Burnley When I think about diversity in the world I too think about diversity when it comes to sexual orientation. Sometimes I think -- How is sexual identity developed? What influences who we become sexually? Why is there such diversity in sexual orientation? To be quite frank‚ there are no correct or incorrect answers to these questions. The idea of sexual orientation and behavior is a very complex one. What was true in the past is certainly different
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The LGBT population in the workplace is growing and the percentage shows from research in the journal article Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Literature “the ratio of GLBT employees to the entire workforce is between 3% and 12% in the US. Between 5% and 7% of the total UK population is GLB (Colgan‚ Creegan‚ McKearney‚ & Wright‚ 2007
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and heaven. This is disgraceful‚ and obscene. Time and time again people are being condemned for what they are. Contentions: “Despite almost a century of psychoanalytic and psychological speculation‚ there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person’s fundamental heterosexual or homosexual orientation. It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature‚ determined by a complex
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QUESTION: DISUSS THE FACTORS THAT ACCCOUNT FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN INDIVIDUALS WITH RELEVANT REFERENCES. LECTURER: DR S ATINDANBILA Factors That Account For Sexual Orientation In Individuals Sexual orientation refers to one’s degree of emotional and erotic attraction to members of the same or opposite gender. Those who are erotically attracted to members of the opposite sex are heterosexuals while those who are erotically attracted to members
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Changing Trends in Sexual Orientation According to Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary‚ sexual orientation refers to the inclination of an individual with respect to heterosexual‚ homosexual‚ and bisexual behavior. The famous Kinsey Reports by Alfred Kinsey (1948) claims that about 10% of American adults are homosexual. This astonishing figure is often presented as fact but is often criticized to be highly overestimated by academia. (Refer to Appendix 1 for figures presented by other institutes).
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Origins of sexual orientation have been attempted to be described with biological and environmental theories‚ though none is sufficient to explain the cause. Sexual orientation has been attributed to differences in structure and function of brain‚ specifically in hypothalamus of straight and gay men (LeVay‚ 1991). Though the research doesn’t establish hypothalamus as the cause of sexual orientation‚ it does indicate the presence of biological factor causing the sexual orientation. Several other studies
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Hofstede’s Five Dimensions of Culture Individualism versus Collectivism is social orientation which is a person’s beliefs about the relative importance of the individual and groups to which that person belongs. Individualism is the culture belief that the person comes first. It includes high degree of self-respect and independence. They often put their own career interests before the good of their organizations‚ and they tend to assess decisions in terms of how those decisions affect them
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through something similar‚ yet altogether different. Some of the teenagers you knew were also having to deal with having a different sexual orientation than their other friends and wondering why. Inertia paper‚ I will be discussing some theories on sexual orientation‚ and how orientation is separate and different from sexual orientation. Sexual orientation refers to whom a person is sexually attracted. If a person is attracted to members of the opposite sex‚ he or she is heterosexual. If a person
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Sexual Orientation‚ Identity‚ and Behavior Homosexuality has been a hot topic for the last fifty or so years‚ as it has been at various times in the past. There are different theories pertaining to the history of homosexuality. Essentialists say it has existed in all times and cultures‚ while social constructionists believe that it has arisen only in certain places and eras (ancient Greece‚ for instance) (Bailey 54). Its social acceptability has varied widely as well. The stigma of non-heterosexuality
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