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p [YOUR NAME] [YOUR PROFESSOR 'S NAME] [CLASS NUMBER] [DATE OF ASSIGNMENT] [YOUR NAME] [YOUR PROFESSOR 'S NAME] [CLASS NUMBER] [DATE OF ASSIGNMENT] Human Sexuality A Multidisciplinary Perspective Human sexuality or more specifically , sexual orientation , can be viewed through a multidisciplinary lens . Sexual preference and sexual identity that form a person 's orientation whether homosexual , heterosexual , or bisexual all have as much to do with science such as biology , as social science such as sociology , anthropology , and psychology . Paul R Abramson and Steven D . Pinkerton

provide a good source for this multidisciplinary and complex understanding of sexual orientation in their book Sexual Nature , Sexual Culture . It must be stressed that this is most easily and aptly described by individual nature and group culture . Individual attraction toward a person of one or both sexes is on the micro level , however expression of sexual orientation is very much influenced by a person 's culture and the allowance for that expression . Therefore looking at sexual orientation as an umbrella with sexual preference as a more personal and biological underpinning of that alongside sexual identity that is influenced by culture is important notes to take in understanding how sexual orientation can be presented by different people in different places

On an individual level , Abramson and Pinkerton look at sexual orientation as having to do with pleasure and pleasure having to do with biology . Simple biological accounts of mate selection due to the instinctive need to have children do not fit with the model of...