Paper Title

Self-Labeled Sexual Orientation and Sexual Behavior Considerations for STD-Related Biomedical Research and Education

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Stephanie A. Sanders
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June Machover Reinisch
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Mary Ziemba-Davis

Keywords

  • Self-Labeled Sexual Orientation
  • Sexual Behavior
  • STD-Related Biomedical Research
  • Sexual Health Education
  • Human Classification
  • Dichotomy
  • Normal vs. Abnormal
  • Social Acceptability
  • Heterosexuality
  • Homosexuality
  • Gradations
  • Sexual Identity
  • Sexual Orientation Spectrum
  • Public Health
  • Sexuality Research
  • Sexual Behavior Categorization

Journal

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Publication Info

Volume: 1st edition | Pages: 241-257

Published On

May, 2013

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Abstract

It is a characteristic of the human mind that it tries to dichotomize in its classification of phenomena. Things either are so, or they are not so. Sexual behavior is either normal or abnormal, socially acceptable or unacceptable, heterosexual or homosexual; and many persons do not want to believe that there are gradations in these matters from one to the other extreme.

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