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Religion and sexual identities

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022
Religion and sexuality have a complex, deep-rooted relationship. Religions often teach how aspects of sexuality should be conducted, typically promoting heterosexuality. Such discourse is at odds with a growing population using sexual minority identities.
Julia Kay Wolf, Lisa F. Platt
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Components of Sexual Identity

Journal of Homosexuality, 1977
This paper examines the four components of sexual identity: biological sex, gender identity, social sex-role, and sexual orientation. Theories about the development of each component and how they combine and conflict to form the individual's sexual identity are discussed.
M G, Shively, J P, De Cecco
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Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation

2017
Sexual differentiation of the brain, gender identity (an individual's perception of being male or female), and sexual orientation (heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and pedophilia) is orchestrated and determined in our brain during early development.
Castellanos-Cruz, L., Bao, A.M., Swaab, D.F.   +2 more
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Sexual orientation and consistency of sexual identity

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1983
The semantic confusion in the use of the terms sexual and gender identity and role is discussed. Theories concerning the development of the sense of sexual identity in normals have been based largely on the sense of sexual identity in sexually deviant subjects.
N, McConaghy, M S, Armstrong
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The Development of Sexual Identity

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1980
The development of sexual identity was studied in 686 individuals, using a fantasy measure of sexual identity that does not depend on learned sex-role stereotypes. The results showed a marked differentiation between the sexes at pre-adolescence, a loss of differentiation during the freshman year of college that most closely resembled the lack of ...
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Sexual identity: Research strategies

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1975
Children from the first 2 years of life show an awareness that they are either male or female. Later they usually behave in ways culturally appropriate to this awareness. Still later they exhibit a preference for sexual partners of one or the other sex.
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Sexual Identity

2020
Sexual identity research within sociology has largely examined the social contexts of sexuality as a central part of how we think about ourselves. While much of this research focuses on the experiences of marginalized people (gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and other identities), critical attention has also been paid to the social construction of ...
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From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships:

Journal of Homosexuality, 1984
The article has three major purposes. First, it adumbrates four contexts within which the discourse on sexual identity has been carried on: the historical, bisexual, homosexual, and biological. Within these contexts sexual identity has been conceived in three general forms: the biological, psychological, and socio-cultural.
J P, De Cecco, M G, Shively
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The Sexual Domain of Identity: Sexual Statuses of Identity in Relation to Psychosocial Sexual Health

Identity, 2009
Sexual identity has been substantially underinvestigated relative to other aspects of identity. The purpose of this study was to document the relationship between sexual psychosocial maturity, positive sexual self-concepts, and effective sexual decision-making/coping styles with the identity processes that college students choose to use in defining ...
Sally L. Archer, Jeremy A. Grey
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