Origins of Sexuality and Homosexuality

John Dececco, Phd, Michael Shively

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780866562713
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317774402
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Ethics & Professional Responsibility in Law
• Index: Psychology

This well-documented book highlights some of the theories of bisexual and homosexual identities and their conceptual bases in cultural history, moral philosophy, biology, and social psychology. Some of the most respected minds in the field of human sexuality challenge traditional views on homosexuality and question the moral principles implicit in many existing psychiatric and psychological theories.

Index

• adolescents
  • ego identity 113
  • homosexual identity development 96, 97, 98, 114, 115
  • personal identity 92
  • psychosexual development 7
  • sell perception 115
• adultery 35
• age, of sexual partners 5
• altruism 158, 164–165
• American Psychological Association 53
• androgen 139, 142
• androgyny 147
• Archives of Sexual Behavior 128, 129
• arousal 132
• autoerotism 71

• behaviorism 82
• Bell. A. P. 52–53
• Benjamin, Harry 144–145
• herdaches 33, 42, 50
• bestiality 3, 30, 38
• Bieber 1, 51–52
• biological determinism 24, 47
• biological factors see also sociobiological factors
  • in bisexual identity 6, 9
  • in femininity 140, 141–142, 146, 147, 148
  • in homosexuality 10, 12–14, 140–141
  • fetal origin theory 12–13, 139–140, 147
  • natural selection theory 13
  • sexual stereotype theory 13
  • in masculinity 140, 141–142, 146, 147, 148
  • in sexual behavior 137–155
  • environmental factors and 139–140
  • hormonal factors 142–143, 145, 147, 148–150
  • pubertal gender change 141–142
  • social learning and 137, 138–139
  • validity of 150–151
  • in sexual identity 3–4
  • in sexual relationships 14–15, 16, 17
  • in transsexualism 142–143, 146
  • biological potentiality 24
  • bisexual identity
  • as biological essence 6, 9
  • as...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editor
• Foreword
• From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships: A Contextual Shift
• Vices, Gods, and Virtues: Cosmology as a Mediating Factor in Attitudes toward Male Homosexuality
• The Bisexual Identity: An Idea Without Social Recognition
• Freud Reconsidered: Bisexuality, Homosexuality, and Moral Judgement
• The Dilemma of Essentiality in Homosexual Theory
• Homosexual Identity Formation as a Developmental Process
• Homosexual Identity: A Concept in Need of Definition
• Research on Sexual Orientation: Definitions and Methods
• Human Sexuality in Biological Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
• Sexual Orientation, Sociobiology, and Evolution
• Index