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Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

Archives of sexual behavior, 2015-07, Vol.44 (5), p.1177-1213 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 ;ISSN: 0004-0002 ;EISSN: 1573-2800 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8 ;PMID: 25772652 ;CODEN: ASXBA8

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  • Title:
    Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory
  • Author: van Anders, Sari M.
  • Subjects: Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Female ; Gender ; Gender Identity ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Love ; Non-binary gender ; Original Paper ; Personality ; Power (Psychology) ; Psychology ; Public Health ; Sexual Behavior ; Sexual orientation ; Sexuality ; Social Perception ; Social Sciences ; Social Theory
  • Is Part Of: Archives of sexual behavior, 2015-07, Vol.44 (5), p.1177-1213
  • Description: Sexual orientation typically describes people’s sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality—gender/sex and partner number. SCT also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using SCT and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that SCT changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research.
  • Publisher: New York: Springer US
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0004-0002
    EISSN: 1573-2800
    DOI: 10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8
    PMID: 25772652
    CODEN: ASXBA8
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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