All of the following are key ideas to take away from this chapter's discussion of sexual orientation except:

a. Different types of sexual desires and experiences hold different meanings for individuals and groups.
b. In a society, individuals will differ in the nature, range, and intensity of sexual interests and urges.
c. Culture always plays a role in molding individual sexual urges toward a collective norm and these norms vary from culture to culture.
d. Asexuality, indifference toward, or lack of attraction to either sex, is also a sexual orientation.
e. There is conclusive scientific evidence that sexual orientation is genetically determined.


Answer: e. There is conclusive scientific evidence that sexual orientation is genetically determined.

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