Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1085 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sexual Orientation
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The idea
Sexual orientation is a person's pattern of physical and emotional attraction, ranging across categories from exclusively one sex to any sex to none.
In practice
Kinsey's scale placed orientation on a continuum rather than a strict either-or, a framing later research has kept.
Where people slip
Orientation and gender identity are independent categories; knowing one tells you nothing certain about the other.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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