caa a22 4500 606232524 CHVBK 20210128101227.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8 van Anders Sari Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church St., 48105, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory [Elektronische Daten] [Sari van Anders] Sexual orientation typically describes people's sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality—gender/sex and partner number. SCT also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using SCT and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that SCT changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Sexuality nationallicence Intimacy nationallicence Gender/sex nationallicence Polyamory nationallicence Asexuality nationallicence Sexual orientation nationallicence Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1177-1213 0004-0002 44:5<1177 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0490-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- van Anders Sari Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church St., 48105, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1177-1213 0004-0002 44:5<1177 2015 44 10508