Abstract
Avaliou-se a prevalência de identidades sexuais em homens e mulheres de diferentes gerações com base em cinco categorias (heterossexuais, predominantemente heterossexuais, bissexuais, predominantemente homossexuais e homossexuais) e aferiu-se a ideação e comportamentos homoeróticos em heterossexuais. A coletada de dados foi realizada por meio de questionários de autorrelato disponibilizados em um sitio de pesquisa na Internet. Dados de 41.873 Brasileiros foram colhidos e analisados. Do total, 78.2% dos homens e 89.8% das mulheres se declaram heterossexuais, a minoria sexual mais prevalente foi a de homossexuais (4.6%) e de predominantemente heterossexuais (4.1%). Ideação e comportamentos homoeróticos em heterossexuais foram frequentes e diferenças entre homens e mulheres foram robustas. Não heterossexualidades foram mais prevalentes em gerações mais jovens.
Highlights
The concept of sexual orientation is classically defined as sexual impulses of a person towards those of other sex, same sex or both
This understanding led common sense and some researchers to merge sexual orientation identity with sexual attraction and produce and reaffirm a taxonomy based on three independent categories: heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexual (Sell, Wells, & Wypij, 1995; Abdo, 2004; 2010)
This three-category taxonomy has outgrown its utility: since Kinsey’s reports on the sexuality of the American men (Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948) and women (Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, & Gebhard, 1953), it became quite clear that ones sexual orientation does not predict perfectly ones sexual ideation, behavior and affection and that the identity variability can not be reduced to three categories alone
Summary
The concept of sexual orientation is classically defined as sexual impulses of a person towards those of other sex, same sex or both This understanding led common sense and some researchers to merge sexual orientation identity with sexual attraction and produce and reaffirm a taxonomy based on three independent categories: heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexual (Sell, Wells, & Wypij, 1995; Abdo, 2004; 2010). This three-category taxonomy has outgrown its utility: since Kinsey’s reports on the sexuality of the American men (Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948) and women (Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, & Gebhard, 1953), it became quite clear that ones sexual orientation does not predict perfectly ones sexual ideation, behavior and affection and that the identity variability can not be reduced to three categories alone. Hetero or homoerotic fantasies and experiences may occur, with or without affective components at any time of the life cicle (Kaplan, 1984; McCabe, Brewster, & Tillman et al, 2011)
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