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Situational sexual behavior is sexual behavior of a kind that is different from what is usual for that person (or from what that person normally exhibits) due to a social environment that permits, encourages, or compels those acts.
For example, people might not have sex with prostitutes in their home countries, but may do so when they visit other countries, where such activities are legal or ignored by authorities. Other examples are people in prison, the military, single sex boarding schools, or other sex-segregated communities, where members of those communities might engage in homosexual behaviors but identify as heterosexual otherwise.
Many people change their sexual behavior depending on the situation or other life experiences.[1] For example, men and women in a university may practice bisexuality, but only in that environment. Experimentation of this sort is more common among adolescents, both male and female. Some colloquialisms for this trend include "heteroflexible",[2] "BUG" (Bisexual Until Graduation), or "LUG" (Lesbian Until Graduation).[3]
A possibly common and transient example of situational sexuality is the person who while self-identifying as heterosexual, will sexually interact with a member of the same sex (or a gay or lesbian self-identified person sexually interacting with a member of the opposite sex).[1] People with this preference are sometimes called vortex bisexuals and some classify them as a species of heteroflexible.
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Pseudo-homosexuality
Pseudo-homosexuality refers to homosexual anxieties, fantasies, or behavior, exhibited by people who self-identify as heterosexual or who have an opposite-sex sexual orientation (spontaneous attraction). Where actual sex is sought as a result, pseudo-homosexuality is putatively distinguished from homosexuality in that it may not reflect a desire based on sexual orientation or honest curiosity. For example, this behavior may be found in restrictive environments, such as prisons or encampments. Where consent is lacking in these circumstances, sociopathic elements may be manifest.[4]
Due to its somewhat nebulous nature, pseudo-homosexuality may be claimed as a defense by heterosexual men who feel some insecurity or doubt concerning their own masculine role in any area of behavior—sexual, social, or vocational. Anxieties about being homosexual are sometimes interpreted as symbolic reflections of failure in masculine aspiration and competitive defeat in power struggles. In such cases, the true homosexual motivation, if present at all, is very much in abeyance.
The notion of pseudo-homosexuality is important as it provides a possible explanation for homosexual anxieties and fantasies among patients undergoing psychotherapy. It offers an alternative interpretation of fantasies which were earlier understood to be the expression of the repressed homosexual component of our biological innate bisexuality.
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References
- ^ a b Rosario, M., Schrimshaw, E., Hunter, J., & Braun, L. (2006, February). Sexual identity development among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths: Consistency and change over time. Journal of Sex Research, 43(1), 46–58. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ^ Thompson, E.M.; Morgan, E.M. (2008). ""Mostly straight" young women: Variations in sexual behavior and identity development". Developmental Psychology 44 (1): 15–21. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.44.1.15. PMID 18194001.
- ^ See for instance "Campus Lesbians Step Into Unfamiliar Light" New York Times, June 5, 1993
- ^ Chasnoff, Brian (2/5/04). "Life after Prison: A Program of Promise" (in English). The Daily Texan. http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2004/02/05/Focus/Life-After.Prison.A.Program.Of.Promise-598054.shtml. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
External links
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Young People and Teenage Pregnancy by Jan Bridget, .rtf format
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