Orientasi seksual: Perbedaan antara revisi

Kategori-kategori ini adalah aspek sifat lebih bernuansa identitas seksual dan terminologi.<ref name="AmPsycholAssn-whatis"/> Misalnya, orang dapat menggunakan label lain, seperti pansexual atau polysexual,<ref name="Firestein">{{cite book | first = Beth A.| last = Firestein | title = Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan | publisher = [[Columbia University Press]]|page = 9| year = 2007| accessdate = October 3, 2012 | isbn =0231137249| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1pCKkZmBU1EC&pg=PA9}}</ref> atau tidak sama sekali.<ref name="AmPsycholAssn-whatis"/> Menurut [[American Psychological Association]], orientasi seksual "juga mengacu pada pengertian identitas seseorang berdasarkan pada atraksi, perilaku terkait, dan keanggotaan dalam komunitas lain yang berbagi atraksi mereka".<ref name="AmPsycholAssn-whatis"/><ref name="Calif-amici">{{cite web|url=http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Amer_Psychological_Assn_Amicus_Curiae_Brief.pdf Page 30|title=Case No. S147999 in the Supreme Court of the State of California, In re Marriage Cases Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4365(...) - APA California Amicus Brief&nbsp;— As Filed|page=33 n. 60 (p. 55 per Adobe Acrobat Reader);citation per ''id.'', Brief, p. 6 n. 4 (p. 28 per Adobe Acrobat Reader).|format=PDF |accessdate=March 13, 2013}}</ref> Androphilia dan gynephilia adalah istilah yang digunakan dalam ilmu perilaku untuk menggambarkan orientasi seksual sebagai alternatif gender konseptualisasi biner. Androphilia menggambarkan daya tarik seksual untuk maskulinitas; gynephilia menggambarkan daya tarik seksual untuk feminitas.<ref name="schmidt2010">Schmidt J (2010). Migrating Genders: Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine, p. 45 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4094-0273-2</ref> Istilah preferensi seksual sebagian besar tumpang tindih dengan orientasi seksual, tetapi pada umumnya dibedakan dalam penelitian psikologis.<ref name="Preference">{{cite news|title= Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language|publisher=[[American Psychological Association]]|accessdate=July 19, 2011|url=http://www.colby.edu/psychology/APA/Gender.pdf}}</ref> Seseorang yang mengidentifikasi sebagai biseksual, misalnya, dapat secara seksual lebih memilih satu jenis kelamin daripada yang lain.<ref name="Rosario">{{cite journal | last1 = Rosario | first1 = M. | last2 = Schrimshaw | first2 = E. | last3 = Hunter | first3 = J. | last4 = Braun | first4 = L. | year = 2006 | title = Sexual identity development among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths: Consistency and change over time | url = | journal = Journal of Sex Research | volume = 43 | issue = 1| pages = 46–58 | doi=10.1080/00224490609552298}}</ref> Preferensi seksual mungkin juga menyarankan gelar pilihan secara sukarela,<ref name="Preference"/><ref>{{cite book |title=The republic of choice: law, authority, and culture |last=Friedman |first=Lawrence Meir |authorlink= |year=1990 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location= |isbn=978-0-674-76260-2 |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6iYwTFY5mIC&lpg=PA92|accessdate=8 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Sexual revolutions: psychoanalysis, history and the father |last=Heuer |first=Gottfried |authorlink= |year=2011 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location= |isbn=978-0-415-57043-5 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3s_vH5YV-gC&lpg=PA49|accessdate=8 January 2011}}</ref> sedangkan konsensus ilmiah adalah bahwa orientasi seksual adalah bukan pilihan.<ref name="pediatrics2004">{{cite journal |doi=10.1542/peds.113.6.1827 |author=Frankowski BL|author2=American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence|title=Sexual orientation and adolescents |journal=[[Pediatrics (journal)|Pediatrics]]|volume=113 |issue=6 |pages=1827–32 |date=June 2004|pmid=15173519|url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/6/1827.long}}</ref><ref name="rcp2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/workinpsychiatry/specialinterestgroups/gaylesbian/submissiontothecofe/psychiatryandlgbpeople.aspx#history|title=Submission to the Church of England’s Listening Exercise on Human Sexuality |publisher=The Royal College of Psychiatrists|accessdate=13 June 2013}}</ref><ref name=shatb>{{cite journal | last1 = Garcia-Falgueras | first1 = Alicia | last2 = Swaab | first2 = Dick F | year = 2010 | title = Sexual Hormones and the Brain: An Essential Alliance for Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation | url = | journal = Endocrine Development | volume = 17 | issue = | pages = 22–35 | doi=10.1159/000262525 | pmid=19955753}} (authors are of Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, of [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]]) (author contact is 2d author) (vol. 17 is Sandro Loche, Marco Cappa, Lucia Ghizzoni, Mohamad Maghnie, & Martin O. Savage, eds., ''Pediatric Neuroendocrinology'').</ref>