Biomedical subjects

A P MacDonald

Publications and source records attributed to A P MacDonald.

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PubMed1984

Reactions to issues concerning sexual orientations, identities, preferences, and choices.

Most etiological theories of homosexuality suffer from unomania, the preoccupation with single causes. Unomania, in MacDonald's terms, reflects a singularistic, as compared with a pluralistic cognitive set. It also reflects the rigid dichotomization of feminine roles for females and masculine roles for males. It is hoped that current research on bisexuality will be spared the unomania that has afflicted research on homosexuality.

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PubMed1981

Bisexuality: some comments on research and theory.

Though evidence suggests that bisexuals may outnumber homosexuals and that bisexuality is increasing, there is a paucity of research on this group. Further, because researchers have included large numbers of bisexuals as "homosexuals" in their studies of homosexuality, we cannot even be sure of what we know about homosexuals. The author examines a variety of issues: sex differences, life-styles, discrimination, changes in sexual orientation over the life span, etc. Four beliefs about bisexuals are presented and examined: Bisexuality as: (1) real and natural, (2) transitory (the bisexual will become exclusive at the orientation opposite to his or her original orientation), and (4) homosexual denial.

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PubMed1973