From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships:

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The article has three major purposes. First, it adumbrates four contexts within the discourse on sexual identity has been carried on: the historical, bisexual, homosexual, and biological. Within these contexts sexual identity has been conceived in three general forms: the biological, psychological, and socio-cultural. The biological form is the most basic since all conceptualizations of sexual identity make the biological sex of partners in sexual relationship the criteria distinction. Second, the article addresses problems that have arisen in each of the contexts, the incorporation of unacknowledged moral judgments, and the misapplication of the scientific method. Third, it identifies conceptual, methodological, and moral advantages in redirecting the discourse on sexual identity so that the focus of inquiry is on sexual relationships: (a) the focus is shifted form isolated individuals to their mutual association. (b) Social scientist could conceive of sexual relationships in other than biological terms ...

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