Question: What did the Pan American Health organization say these treatments violated?
Answer: violation of the ethical principles of health care and violate human rights that are protected by international and regional agreements.

Question: What did the Pan American Health Organization reccomend for those who used treatment to stop homosexuality?
Answer: that such malpractices be denounced and subject to sanctions and penalties under national legislation,

Question: What does the Kinsey scale provide a classification for?
Answer: sexual orientation based on the relative amounts of heterosexual and homosexual experience or psychic response in one's history at a given time.

Question: How does the classifiacation scheme work on the Kinsey scale?
Answer: such that individuals in the same category show the same balance between the heterosexual and homosexual elements in their histories

Question: What is the position on the Kinsey scale based on?
Answer: relation of heterosexuality to homosexuality in one's history

Question: What positions does the KInsey scale not use?
Answer: the actual amount of overt experience or psychic response

Question: What does SASO stand for?
Answer: Sell Assessment of Sexual Orientation

Question: Why was SASO created?
Answer: to address the major concerns with the Kinsey Scale and Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

Question: What did SASO find wrong with the KInsey scale and Klein Sexual Orientation Grid?
Answer: measures sexual orientation on a continuum, considers various dimensions of sexual orientation, and considers homosexuality and heterosexuality separately

Question: What is one of SASO's main goals?
Answer: providing a final solution to the question of how to best measure sexual orientation

Question: What is SASO causing discussion and debate about?
Answer: measurements of sexual orientation.

Question: How are the three component used to determine sexual orientation?
Answer: all three are used independently and provide different conclusions regarding sexual orientation

Question: When did Savin WIlliams talk about the issues with these components?
Answer: (2006)

Question: What issues to Savin address during this talk?
Answer: basing findings regarding sexual orientation on a single component, researchers may not actually capture the intended population

Question: Why does basing sexual orientation on one component cause problems?
Answer: Because of the limited populations that each component captures

Question: How should consumers of the research approach these findings?
Answer: should be cautious in generalizing these findings.

Question: What have scientists started spending the most time on?
Answer: measuring changes in brain activity related to sexual arousal

Question: How do scientiest measure brain activity?
Answer: by using brain-scanning techniques

Question: How did both gay and straight men react to pictures of both naked men and women?
Answer: positively

Question: What was the only difference in the study between gay and straight men?
Answer: The only significant group difference between these orientations was found in the amygdala,

Question: What does the amygdala region of the brain do?
Answer: known to be involved in regulating fear.

Question: What can affect how a person is treated?
Answer: Perceived sexual orientation

Question: What percent of hate crimes did the FBI relate to sexual orientation bias?
Answer: 15.6%

Question: When was the UK emloyment eequality (sexual orientation) regulations law take effect?
Answer: 2003,

Question: Under this law what does this state that is required by employers?
Answer: workers or job applicants must not be treated less favourably because of their sexual orientation

Question: What do the majority of defintions surronding sexual orientation include?
Answer: psychological component, such as the direction of an individual's erotic desires, or a behavioral component

Question: What does a behaviorial component focus on when defining sexual orientation?
Answer: focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s.

Question: What do other people use to determine a persons sexual idenity?
Answer: an individual's self-definition

Question: When do scientists and professions agree that sexual orientation shows in a person?
Answer: typically emerge between middle childhood and early adolescence

Question: What is the difference between sexual idenity and sexual orientation?
Answer: sexual identity in that it encompasses relationships with others, while sexual identity is a concept of self.

Question: Which two studies where created by Alfred C. KInsey?
Answer: In the oft-cited and oft-criticized Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953

Question: What where people asked to do in these research studies?
Answer: people were asked to rate themselves on a scale from completely heterosexual to completely homosexual.

Question: What did KInsey find during these studies ?
Answer: that when the individuals' behavior as well as their identity are analyzed, most people appeared to be at least somewhat bisexual

Question: In Kinseys mind what percentage of people are considered to be fully heterosexual or homosexual?
Answer: (5–10%

Question: Why do people say KInseys work is not correct?
Answer: the randomness of his sample population,

Question: What idea did Sigmund Freud bring to the table?
Answer: Innate bisexuality

Question: What does Sigmunds idea theorize?
Answer: all humans are born bisexual

Question: Why did SIgmund believe all humans are born bisexual?
Answer: this was true anatomically and therefore also psychologically, with sexual attraction to both sexes being one part of this psychological bisexuality

Question: What does Sigmund believe we all as adults desire?
Answer: both the masculine and the feminine sides of their natures

Question: Even though Sigmund believed all people where born bisexual what did he not believe to be true?
Answer: that everyone is bisexual in the sense of feeling the same level of sexual attraction to both genders

Question: Whar words may people use for sexual idenity?
Answer: pansexual or polysexual,

Question: What does the American Pyschological Association say sexual orientation refers to?
Answer: a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions

Question: What terms does behavorial science use instead of using gender binary conceptualization?
Answer: Androphilia and gynephilia

Question: What is androphilia used to describe?
Answer: sexual attraction to masculinity

Question: What is gynephilia used to describe?
Answer: the sexual attraction to femininity

Question: What does the American Physocological Association say that sexual orientation refers to?
Answer: an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes

Question: What do a lot of cultures use to describe homosexual people?
Answer: identity labels

Question: What are the most used labels in America to describe homosexuals?
Answer: lesbians (women attracted to women), gay men (men attracted to men), and bisexual people (men or women attracted to both sexes).

Question: What do psychologists says sexual orientation can also mean?
Answer: a person’s choice of sexual partners

Question: What does NARTH stand for?
Answer: The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality

Question: What does NARTH consider itself to be?
Answer: a "professional, scientific organization that offers hope to those who struggle with unwanted homosexuality,

Question: What does NARTH disagree with?
Answer: the mainstream mental health community's position on conversion therapy

Question: What does NARTH state is wrong with the mainstream mental healths stand on conversion therapy?
Answer: its effectiveness and by describing sexual orientation not as a binary immutable quality