Table 2 (Complete Overview)

Sex - Basic Aspects of Human Sexuality

A Spectrum of Variations: Examples: Table 2 (Complete Overview)

Male-Masculine-Heterosexual
A person of male sex usually adopts the masculine gender role and develops a heterosexual orientation. Such an individual then conforms to our image of the "typical" male.

 

Male-Masculine-Homosexual
A person of male sex who has adopted the masculine gender role may very well develop a homosexual orientation. Such an individual may then look and behave like any other "typical" male in all respects but one - his choice of sexual partner.

 

Male-Feminine-Heterosexual
A person of male sex may adopt the feminine gender role and even a feminine gender identity. In the latter case he may then even try everything possible (including a "sex change operation") to make the body conform to the feminine self-image. In this case, an erotic preference for males, would, of course, have to be considered heterosexual.

 

Male-Feminine-Homosexual
A person of male sex may adopt the feminine gender role and identity and try everything possible to make the body conform to the feminine self-image. If such an individual then also developed an erotic preference for females, this sexual orientation could only be called homosexual.