How Sexual Desire Works- The Enigmatic Urge by Frederick Toates

Author:Frederick Toates
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781107688049
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

Adult plasticity and sexual orientation

Tolman and Diamond (2001) note that changes in women’s personal circumstances and social context can lead to changes in sexual orientation. In a survey of young women’s same-sex experiences, they found (p. 61):

Many of these young women indicated that as time went by, they became increasingly aware of the way in which sexual identity categories failed to represent the vast diversity of sexual and romantic feelings they were capable of experiencing for female and male partners under different circumstances. As one woman said, ‘I’m really attracted to the person and not the gender, and there’s no category for that, not even “bisexual”.’ Such data demonstrate how much we lose by trying to fit women’s (and men’s) complex, highly contextualized experiences of same-sex and other-sex sexuality into cookie-cutter molds of ‘gay’, ‘straight’, and (only recently) ‘bisexual’.

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