Sexual fluidity in male and females

LM Diamond�- Current Sexual Health Reports, 2016 - Springer
Sexual fluidity has been defined as a capacity for situation-dependent flexibility in sexual
responsiveness, which allows individuals to experience changes in same-sex or other-sex�…

A review of two decades of LGBTQ‐inclusive research in JSPR and PR

AM Pollitt, KL Blair, PJ Lannutti�- Personal Relationships, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) relationship science
has grown significantly over the past two decades, coinciding with rapid changes in the�…

A psychosocial genealogy of LGBTQ+ gender: An empirically based theory of gender and gender identity cultures

HM Levitt�- Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this invited article, I present an inclusive theory of gender that clarifies its interconnections
with gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. To support this functionalist theory, I�…

Bisexual erasure: Perceived attraction patterns of bisexual women and men

T Morgenroth, TA Kirby, MJ Cuthbert…�- European Journal of�…, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bisexual individuals face identity denial and erasure and qualitative analyses suggest that it
may be gendered, such that people stereotype bisexual women as truly heterosexual and�…

Stability of sexual attractions across different timescales: The roles of bisexuality and gender

LM Diamond, JA Dickenson, KL Blair�- Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2017 - Springer
We examined the stability of same-sex and other-sex attractions among 294 heterosexual,
lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women between the ages of 18 and 40 years�…

Sexual orientation trajectories based on sexual attractions, partners, and identity: A longitudinal investigation from adolescence through young adulthood using a US�…

CE Kaestle�- The Journal of Sex Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Defining sexual minority status longitudinally over critical developmental periods is essential
for understanding the roots of health disparities. Theory supports multidimensional�…

The new genetic evidence on same-gender sexuality: Implications for sexual fluidity and multiple forms of sexual diversity

LM Diamond�- The Journal of Sex Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In September of 2019, the largest-ever (N= 477,522) genome-wide-association study of
same-gender sexuality was published in Science. The primary finding was that multiple�…

Gender/sex diversity beliefs: Scale construction, validation, and links to prejudice

ZC Schudson, SM van Anders�- Group Processes &�…, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Prejudice against or affirmation of gender/sex minorities is often framed in terms of beliefs
about the ontology of gender/sex (ie, what gender/sex is), or gender/sex diversity beliefs. We�…

Medicalization and the new civil rights

C Konnoth�- Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 2020 - Elsevier
This essay describes how individuals have increasingly used the language of medicine to
seek legal rights and benefits. These claims have often been applied to conditions that�…

Prenatal influences on human sexual orientation: Expectations versus data

SM Breedlove�- Archives of sexual behavior, 2017 - Springer
In non-human vertebrate species, sexual differentiation of the brain is primarily driven by
androgens such as testosterone organizing the brains of males in a masculine fashion early�…