HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS

Some roforonoe was made earlier to the number of persons reporting heterosexual relati onships. Table 11 gives the distribution of replies according to number of rolati onships. Of those in the first bracket (1-3 relationships), about a third, or 20 persons, have had only one relati onship.

NO. RELATIONSHIPS

NO. OF PERSONS

1-3

4-9

10 & OVER)

OR "MANY")

UNSPECIFIED

549

59

14

=|3

TABLE 11. NUMBER OF HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS

SEX ROLE VARIES

"In your

Of considerable interest was the question: honosexual relationship(s) do you consider your solf prodominantly fominine, masculine, or neither?" Roplies indicated (Seo Fig. 8) a close balance between those answering "neither" and those answering "masculine" each answer accounting for more than 1/3 of the replie 3,

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The se roplie s lend some support to tho common idoa that there is considerable masculino identificati on among Lesbians. What is of ape cial interest, though, is the fact that, while over 20% claimed a feminine identification, over a third refused either label. The questi on roferred only to the role taken in homosexual relations; and answers might have been different had the question boon worded more generally. It should also be noticed that the question was put in the present tense. It would be of great interest to know how psycho-sexual identification changed, if at all, over the subjects' lives, and what reasons could be given for such changes.

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