New Trends in Same-Sex Sexual Contact for American Adolescents?

Gartrell, Nanette; Bos, Henny; Goldberg, Naomi G

doi:10.1007/s10508-011-9883-5

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“…But one could just as easily refer to these sexualities as branched rather than as causes for skepticism. In this way, the terms branched and coincident may be useful for thinking about sexual fluidity and non-exclusivity of sexual identities, now well-documented in adolescents and adults of various gender/sexes, sexualities, and cultures (Cass, 1990;Diamond, 2003aDiamond, , 2003bDiamond, , 2014Gartrell, Bos, & Goldberg, 2012;Herdt, 1990;Savin-Williams, Joyner, & Rieger, 2012). These terms may also be useful for thinking about the complexity of multiple facets and how they configure.…”

Section: Beyond Alignment: Sexual Configurations Can Be Branched or Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2015

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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.

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Section: Beyond Alignment: Sexual Configurations Can Be Branched or Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2015

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“…8 For a comparable debate regarding the import of distinguishing between family structure and family transitions, see the exchange between Allen et al (2013) and Rosenfeld (2013 A second, and larger, group of scholars finds minimal evidence of negative effects of samesex parenting on children. Recent amicus curiae briefs to the US Supreme Court filed by the American Sociological Association (2013,2015) summarize this research on children's academic performance and cognitive development (Potter 2012, Rosenfeld 2010, social development and mental health (Fedewa & Clark 2009, Lamb 2012, Tasker 2005, Wainright & Patterson 2008, and incidence of risky or problematic behaviors (Gartrell et al 2012, Patterson & Wainright 2012, Wainright & Patterson 2006. Taken together, this body of work suggests that children of same-and opposite-sex parents are more similar than different (for comprehensive reviews, also see Adams & Light 2015, Moore & Stambolis-Ruhstorfer 2013, Stacey & Biblarz 2001.…”

Section: Same-sex Familiesmentioning

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Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children

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This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family formsfamily structure, evolutionary, characteristics, and context-and their implications for children, and we discuss the utility of an approach that views family characteristics in social context. We also recommend that instead of using alternative family forms primarily or solely as counterfactuals to the so-called traditional family, researchers should compare alternative family forms to each other, noting theoretical implications for commonalities and differences found among these groups. We call for additional research on alternative families, noting its importance for sociology, family studies, and public policy. 10.1

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“…Due to increased access to assisted reproductive procedures, particularly donor insemination, a growing number of lesbian women have become parents after coming out as lesbian and raising their children in a family with a lesbian mother from birth. The first studies of such families, which began to appear in the mid‐1990s, showed that children born to lesbian mothers through donor insemination do not differ from children in heterosexual families with respect to gender development, peer relationships, psychological well‐being, or sexual orientation in childhood or adolescence (e.g., Bos, Van Balen, & Van den Boom, ; Chan, Raboy, & Patterson, ; Flaks, Ficher, Masterpasqua, & Joseph, ; Gartrell, Bos, & Goldberg, ). Children of lesbian mothers are more likely to be told about their donor conception, and told at a younger age, than their counterparts from heterosexual families (Jadva et al., ).…”

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Families Created by Reproductive Donation: Issues and Research

Golombok

2012

Child Dev Perspectives

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A growing number of children are being born through the donation of gametes (sperm or eggs) or embryos, or the hosting of a pregnancy for another woman (surrogacy), thus creating families in which children lack a gestational and/or genetic relationship with one or both parents. Research on these families suggests that concerns about adverse outcomes for parenting and child development are largely unfounded. Although less is known about nontraditional families formed through reproductive donation than about traditional families, these new family types likely are not at risk for parenting or child-adjustment problems. Overall, findings suggest that the absence of a genetic or gestational connection between parents and children does not have an adverse effect on the quality of parent-child relationships or children's adjustment.

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New Trends in Same-Sex Sexual Contact for American Adolescents?

Cited by 33 publications

References 5 publications

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

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

Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children

Families Created by Reproductive Donation: Issues and Research

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