PSY 240 Sexual Orientation & Identity

Sexual Orientation & Identity

The Brain, The Body and The Mind: All Together Now (Psy/240)

Sexual Orientation & Identity

There are many different perspectives relating to a person sexual orientation and identity, which will be examine.

When examining sexual orientation there are three different types, which are heterosexual (attraction to the opposite sex), homosexual (attraction to same sex) and bisexual (attraction to both sexes) (Pinel, 2009).

One perspective is orientation is link with genetics; finding that twin brothers with similar DNA were 52% of monozygotic twin brothers and 22% of the dizygotic twin brothers were homosexual (Pinel, 2009). Women had similar results with 48% for monozygotic twins and 16% for dizygotic twins female were...