Sexual Identity is not Sexual Orientation (Conference presentation)
Sexual identity is not the same as sexual orientation. The former comprises self-perception, the latter is about others and involves sexual behavior.
Sexual identity forms in 5 stages:
1. Introjection of primary objects and role models, including parents, siblings, and peers;
2. Emulation of a parent (same sex or other sex). This is affected by the parents’s behaviors (e.g., abuse or sex aversion or sex positivity);
3. Exploration of potential sex partners of all sexes. This is coupled with identity diffusion;
4. Sublimation (a part of the socialization process): excluding certain sex partners as forbidden or inappropriate, acquisition of sexual skills and scripts;
5. Orientation: settling on a pattern of mate selection and attendant sexual behaviors.
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