Homosexuality in females
Aging, life trajectories and female homosexuality
Envelhecimento, trajetórias e homossexualidade feminina
Andrea Moraes Alves
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Translated by David Rodgers
Translated from Horizontes Antropológicos, Porto Alegre, v, n, p. , dez.
RESUMO
A literatura das ciências sociais sobre o tema da homossexualidade feminina tem crescido recentemente no Brasil, mostrando o interesse despertado pelo assunto. A partir dos anos , trabalhos acadêmicos discutem a homossexualidade feminina: seu significado e impacto sobre as questões de gênero, sua relação com os movimentos sociais vinculados às reivindicações sobre direitos sexuais e reprodutivos no Brasil. Grande parte desses trabalhos concentra-se sobre uma faixa etária jovem, em torno dos 20 anos de idade, e outros abordam mulheres um pouco mais velhas, entre 30 e 40 anos. No entanto, nota-se a ausência de trabalhos que discutam a homossexualidade vivida por m
Why Are There Gay Women?
Straight women are much more likely to fetch themselves knocked up than gay women. So, in terms of evolution, they would seem to have a finer chance of passing on their genes, while at the same time it would seem that the genes that make women gay would quickly vanish from the gene pool. This raises the question, why are there gay women?
Lesbianism is indeed at least 25 percent genetic, as determined by a research of twins conducted in the United Kingdom. The learn found that identical twin sisters (who share percent of their DNA) are more likely to both be lesbians than are fraternal twin sisters (who share just 50 percent), proving that, all other environmental factors being equal, genes matter. While scientists have a theory for how male homosexuality propagates from one generation to the next, no one has yet produced a viable explanation for how the genes that promote lesbianism might do the same. [ Why Are There Gay Men? ]
A female's sexual orientation also appears to be partly influenced by her level of exposure to the male sex hormone androgen w
by Seward Hiltner
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SUMMARY
A possible explanation of society’s apparent lack of concern over female homosexuality, and an assessment of a new analyze on lesbianism to be soon published.
Whenever the word "homosexuality" is mentioned, more than 90 per cent of the listeners or readers will assume that the reference is to males. In the first notify by Alfred C. Kinsey and his colleagues on male sexual behavior in the U.S., one of the items that provided maximum shock value was the "cumulative incidence" figure of 37 per cent for homosexual acts. That meant that 37 per cent of the men interviewed reported having, at some age and on at least one occasion, a homosexual experience.
At that time Kinsey estimated that the percentage of more-or-less exclusively homosexual males in our white population was
First Advisor
Pamela O. Munter
Term of Graduation
Summer
Date of Publication
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.) in Psychology
Subjects
Lesbianism -- Research -- Methodology -- Evaluation, Lesbianism -- Psychological aspects
Physical Description
1 online resource (4, iv, 80 pages)
Abstract
The purpose of this review is to evaluate the methodology of past and present study with female homosexuals and then to summarize the current state of knowledge in psychology and psychiatry. The data presented in this review have been derived predominantly from material abstracted in the Medicus Index () and Psychology Abstracts ().
This reviewer has established specific criteria by which all studies throughout this literature review will be examined. These are: sample size, sampling of experimental control groups, variable controlled (age, education, etc), how sexual orientation was determined, and tests and questionnaires employed, their reliability, validity, administration, and interpretation.
It has been shown that both the clinical and nonclinical resea