9/10 Flashcards
Do men really think about sex more than women
Yes, Men have on avg 34.2 sexual thoughts per day while women have 18.7
This difference not only for sex, men thoughts abt food and sleep more too
Maybe men think about their needs more then women
What’s up with our primal inclination toward novelty and lust in direct contrast with societal inclinations toward monogamy?
Esther Perel:
Love tends to dampen the mystery and erotic spark after being together for a long time and becoming parents
Self expansion (Esther Perel)
1)people want to expand their experiences and extend identities
2)this desire of expansion helps explain why we enter into relationships with others
We like to meet new people get to know them
3)a relationship is successful when it expands both partners’ identities;relationships stagnate when expansion stops (infidelity?)
Goals of sex research
Basic knowledge
Understanding to influence behavior
Understanding to inform public policy
Provides facts that inform personal decisions/opinions
Research methods
Population vs sample
~random sample
~issue in sex research: people choose a small sample of undergrad students and generalize this info to all young adults
generalization
selection/volunteer bias
Generalization
the closer the sample matches the population the more generalizable
selection/volunteer bias:
its possible our sample is biased with people whom are willing to participate in sex research
Ethical principles
Tri-Council policy statement:ethical conduct for research involving humans
Protection from harm
Informed consent
Debriefing
Tuskegee study
Studied untreated syphilis in African people
Did not get informed consent, did not get the treatment that they were promised, and coerced with incentives
When penicillin was invented as treatment, they were denied that
methods of research
surveys, qualitative methods, and experimental design
Survey
self-report
~Questionnaire vs interview
Problems associated with self-report
Purposeful distortion, social desirability
~People lie about their data to make sure their answer is socially acceptable
Ability to estimate (hard to estimate the answer on some questions)
Faulty memory (people forget)
Interpreting the question (people interpret questions diff)
Cross-sectional(give us data abt a person at a specific point of time)
~Don’t know what causes what, no causality
Survey methods
Kinsey survey, NHSLS, NSSHB, British national survey
canada doesnt have national survey they leech off of USA
Canadian surveys
Canada youth sexual health and HIV/AIDS study (Boyce et al)
Canadian community health survey (rotermann)
2014 health behavior in school aged children
BC Adolescent health survey(2018)
Canada youth sexual health and HIV/AIDS study (Boyce et al)
Student in grades 7,9,11
Percentage of people who have engaged in sexual intercourse
23% boys, 19% of girls in grade 9
40% of boys, 46% of girls in grade 11
This data had lower percentages than data from 1987, kids were becoming less sexual
Canadian community health survey (rotermann)
Examined sexual health behavior of youth 15-24 during two time periods (2009 with 2003)
66% of youth aged 15-24 had sexual intercouse at least one time (consistent with 2003)
30% of teens age 15-17, 68% of teens ages 18-19, 85% of youth aged 20-24 had sexual intercourse at least one time (consistent with 2003 data)
2014 health behavior in school aged children
Percent of grade 10 students having sexual intercourse fairly consistent in 2014 with 2002
BC Adolescent health survey(2018)
30,00 grade 7-12 students
19% of students reported ever having intercourse
23% reported ever having had oral sex (compared to 26% in 2008)
main theme of survey results
despite popular belief, adolescents are not having sex at more and more younger ages
contraception use going up, teen pregnancy going down
