Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Alfred Kinsey Defined Sex as

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behaviour that leads to orgasm

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Ancient Greeks openly acknowledged

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both heterosexuality and homosexuality in their society and explained it with a myth in which the original humans were double creatures split double females, males or male and females.

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15th century christians believed that wet dreams

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resulted from intercourse with tiny spiritual creatures called icubi and succubi a notion put forth by papal bull (official doc) of 1884 and companion book malleus maleficarum (witches hammer).

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The Malleus Maleficarium

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(witches hammer) manual of inquisition, in which people of the 15th century used to accuse women of being witches

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In 15th century Christian’s believed wet dreams, sexual dysfunction, and sexual lust were seen to be caused

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by witchcraft

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Muslims over centuries

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Believe that sexual intercourse is for pleasure before reproduction. reflecting one of the great teachings of Muhammad

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Conservative Christians use the bible to

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justify their opposition to same sex marriage and relationships

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The Anglican Church of Canada in 2016 voted

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same sex marriage be okay

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The Anglican Church of Canada in 2019 voted

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churches require 2/3 votes from lay voters, clergy and bishops in order to pass same sex marriage. The clergy and lay voter were in favour however the bishops were not

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10
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Dutch microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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discovered sperm swimming in human secretion

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Oskar Hertwig

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First observed the fertilization of the egg by the sperm in sea urchins, although the ovum in humans was not discovered until the 20th century

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12
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Sex researchers began their work in the

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Victorian Era the late 19th century both in North America and Europe

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13
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Norms during the 19th century were

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Extremely rigid and oppressive

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Historian Peter Gay described the victorian era as

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a devious and insincere world. Where the men went off and did whatever they wanted sexually while their wives poured all their energy into housekeeping and their child-rearing

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Dr Clelia Mosher

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Physician who spent 30 years during the victorian era conducting sex surveys of victorian women in the United States. Sample size was small (47) and non random but 80 percent of women said they had sexual desires, 72 percent had organs

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16
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Henry Havelock Ellis

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Believed that women like men were sexual creatures. Was kinda before his time in sex research. Objective and tolerant research.

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German psychiatrist Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

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He did not have objective or tolerant research but studied perversions and created the concepts of sadism, masochism and pedophilia. The terms heterosexuality and homosexuality emerged in the translation of his book

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German Physician Magnus Hirschfeld

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Founded the first sex research institute and administered the first large scale sex survey 10 000 people on 130 question survey
Most of his research was destroyed by the NAzis. Special interest in homosexuality.

19
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A major national survey on sexual behaviour in Canada

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Has never been conducted

20
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First Nations

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Females encouraged to have premarital and extramarital sex
gay, lesbian and two spirited were respected and admired
Sex is a gift
exotic and erotic noble savages
1990s The men were icons of masculinity for white women in novels

21
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Indigenous women experience a disproportionally high rate of

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sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy low birth weight infants and sexual violence

22
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According to 2016 census what percent of Canadians were not born in Canada

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24%

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Those of East Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)

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Had sex later if they identified more closely with their country of origin than those who identified more closely with Canadian culture

24
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Canadian Researcher Eleanor Maticka Tyndale

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behaviours of Black Canadians
adolescent Muslim African descent had less sex than Christian African descent

25
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Telling a person to calm down is

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an expression of dominance that invalidates the legitimacy of the person’s feelings

26
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Cunnilingus

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mouth stimulation of female genitals
common in south pacific

27
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Apinaye women of Brazil

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Bite of bits of partners eyebrows and spit them out loudly to arouse their partners

28
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Ponapeanfe of various societies

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bite their partners to a point of drawing blood and causing scarring

29
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The oldest sex manual in the world comes from

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china from 200 BCE

30
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Chinese sex history

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4000 years of erotic, open, positive attitudes
1000 years of the opposite

31
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Yin Yang

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Chinese philosophy
Yin is all things passive, weak, negative, destructive
Yang is all things strong, positive, active, strong and constructive

32
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Yin fu

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vulva

33
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Yang ju

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penis

34
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Huo yin yang

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sex

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