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J Homosex. 1984 Winter;10(3-4):7-14. doi: 10.1300/j082v10n03_03.
The papers in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities assert that standard notions of sexual identity are inadequate. Their criticisms rest on unarticulated views about the nature of science, which constitute positions in the Verstehen controversies. It is argued that social constructionist conceptualizations of sexual identity, which these papers propose as an alternative to earlier ones, are unidimensional and thus inadequate. Despite its limitations, Shively and De Cecco's (1977) model for components of sexual identity, if augmented by ideas of (1) psychobiologically mediated arousal cue-responses and (2) self-concepts, provides a more comprehensive and potentially richer conceptualization of sexual identity than social constructionist theories.
《双性恋与同性恋身份认同》中的论文认为，性身份的标准概念并不充分。他们的批评基于关于科学本质的未阐明观点，这些观点构成了理解之争中的立场。有人认为，这些论文提出的作为早期概念替代的性身份社会建构主义概念是一维的，因此并不充分。尽管存在局限性，但希利和德切科（1977）的性身份构成模型，如果辅以（1）心理生物学介导的唤醒线索反应和（2）自我概念的观点，将比社会建构主义理论提供更全面且可能更丰富的性身份概念。
