Sexuality is usually manifested and experienced as orientation toward and attraction to people of a different gender, the same gender, or both. Some may state that sexual attraction and orientation are chosen and voluntary, and that one can will oneself to find another person sexually appealing. In fact, most research suggests the opposite: people find themselves attracted to an individual or a particular gender without having thought about that attraction or having consciously willed it. The... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.