1. Infancy to Adulthood Week 12.4

2. Today … Identity Sex and gender spectrum Gender identity
Sexual orientation
Kinsey and research

3. Identity vs role confusion Intimacy vs isolation
“Erikson contends that the adolescent identity stage is followed in young adulthood by a developing capacity for intimacy. Once you have a clear and comfortable sense of who you are, said Erikson, you are ready for close relationships.”

4. Identity vs role confusion Intimacy vs isolation
“But to Carol Gilligan (1982), the ‘normal’ struggle to create one’s separate identity characterizes individualistic males more than relationship-orientated females. Gilligan believes that females are less concerned than males with viewing themselves as separate individuals, and more concerned with intimate relationships. Thus females are less likely to exhibit Erikson’s identity-before-intimacy sequence.”

7. Dr Money and the boy with no penis
Bruce/Brenda/David always maintained a psychological sense of being a boy.

8. Laverne Cox
Biological Sex – Male
Gender identity - female

9. Meet Tilda Swinton – androgyny

12. Swinton or Bowie?

13. Mc Manus
McManus’ idea of an active, conscious construction of identity that exists on a continuum. This makes it more difficult to construct stereotypes of particular groups in society.

14. Sexual Orientation
Definition: A person’s sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual.

15. Sexual Orientation
L G B T L G B T Q I A + S S A G Q Y

16. Sexual Orientation Heterosexual Homosexual (gay, lesbian) Bisexual
Pansexual or omnisexuality (pan/omni = all)
Rejects gender binary as pansexual people are open to relationships with people who do not identify as strictly men or women.
Polysexuality (poly = many)
Asexual
Lack of sexual attraction
Does not mean they cannot feel love.

18. Kinsey Scale Widely quoted study from 1948
Identified around 10% of the population as not exclusively heterosexual
Allowed people to identify on a spectrum with 6 points in the scale (and an ‘x’ for no sexual reactions), ranging from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual

21. Conflicting Views
Many studies have been done on sexual identity, and they range from identifying 1% - 16% as not exclusively heterosexual.
Results vary considerably according to the terms and criteria used.
Studies that require people to identify as ‘gay or bi’ have the lowest percentage of people self-identify.
Other studies require people to identify as an orientation only if they have actively sexually participated in that orientation.

22. Today we covered … Erikson and identity Sex and gender spectrum
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
Kinsey and research