Toward Global Comparability of Sexual Orientation Data in Official Statistics: A Conceptual Framework of Sexual Orientation for Health Data Collection in New Zealand’s Official Statistics System
Table 2
Proposed working definitions for the sexual orientation measurement concepts.
Measurement concept
Proposed working definition
Source
Sexual attraction
The desire to have sexual relationships or to be in a primary loving, sexual relationship with one or both sexes.
Any mutually voluntary activity […] that involves genital contact (for at least one of the partners) and sexual excitement or arousal, that is feeling really turned on, even if intercourse or orgasm did not occur.
Laumann et al. (page 67) [20], text in brackets added by authors
Sexual identity
Personally selected, socially, and historically bound labels attached to the perceptions and meanings individuals have about their sexuality