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
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8
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发表时间：
2015-03
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Sari M. van Anders
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作者：
Sari M. van Anders
性取向通常根据人们相对于目标的性别来描述人们的性吸引力或性欲。尽管它很实用，但它受到了批评，部分原因是它未能解释与性别相关的非生物因素、与性别或性别无关的伴侣性行为，或爱与欲望之间的潜在分歧。在本文中，我提出性配置理论（SCT）作为一个可测试的、以经验为基础的框架，用于理解不同于单独性行为的不同伴侣性行为。我关注并提供了伴侣性行为的两个参数的模型——性别/性别和伴侣数量。 SCT 还描述了个人的性别/性别。我讨论性多样性视角，作为研究不同性取向的特殊性和普遍性的一种方法，而不偏向任何一种。我还讨论了通常被视为不一致或一致的性身份、取向和状态如何更有意义地概念化为分支或同时发生。我使用 SCT 绘制了一些现有的身份，并详细说明了其对健康和咨询工作的应用影响。我强调它在测量和社会神经内分泌学方面对性的重要性，以及它对自我认识、女权主义和酷儿赋权和联盟建设可能有用的方式。我还认为，SCT 以生物学和文化的建设性和生成性方式改变了对性的现有理解和概念化，并且它是性多样性研究的潜在起点。
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.