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Record W4410098086 · doi:10.1177/3033371251331903

Sexual Identities: The State of the Field and Future Directions

2025· article· en· W4410098086 on OpenAlexaff
Tony Silva

Bibliographic record

VenueSex & Sexualities · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMarriage and Sexual Relationships
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsField (mathematics)State (computer science)SociologyPolitical scienceComputer scienceMathematicsPure mathematics

Abstract

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This essay overviews some of the major themes that have emerged from the sociological study of sexual identities (e.g., heterosexual/straight and LGBQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer)) over the past several decades. Only a minority of countries have representative data available about sexual identification, although it is now available for the first time in certain countries, including Brazil and Japan. Although the prevalence of LGBQ identification varies, it is far higher in the Unites States than anywhere else, and the gender gap is larger as well. The primary reason why the Unites States is an outlier is because young American women have such high rates of LGBQ, and especially bisexual, identification. A uniquely strong link between left-wing ideology and LGBQ identity in the Unites States may help explain this trend. Other work has examined identity-behavior discordance among heterosexuals, the demography of emerging sexual identities such as asexual, and secondary sexual identities such as “daddy” and “bear” among gay men. While there is extensive work about LGBQ life in the Unites States and to a lesser extent in other parts of the Western world, LGBQ life in other global regions is underrepresented in the literature.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.617
Threshold uncertainty score0.862

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.306 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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