Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Psychosocial Orientation

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  • Psychological Factors
  • Social Conditioning Factors
  • Biological Factors
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Psychological Factors

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Emotions, attitudes, and motivations

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3
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Social Conditioning Factors

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When we learn our social groups’ expectations and norms

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Biological Factors

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  • hormones and nervous system
  • biological components of sexual orientation
  • theories about the role of genetic selection through human evolution
  • impact of specific genetic variables on an individual
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Islamic Culture

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  • beliefs of Muhammad
  • sex enjoyed by both sexes
  • women more inherently sexual than men
  • women controlled by veils, segregation, and female circumcision
  • marriages are arranged; male heir is primary goal
  • female adulterers and male homosexuals severely punished
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China Culture

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  • highly restrictive prior to the 1990’s
  • lack of basic information
  • few report premarital intercourse; of these only 50% used contraception
  • current trends: more sexual content in media; increasing divorce rates and STD’s
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U.S. Culture

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  • sex for procreation
  • penile-vaginal intercourse primarym
  • strict male and female gender roles
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Ancient Hebrews

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  • highly specialized gender roles; sex seen as profound experience
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Christianity

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  • spirituality equated with celibacy; sex is sinful
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Middle Ages

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  • contradictory images of women
  • Virgin Mary; compassionate, pure, and unattainable
  • eve-temptress
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Sex Positive Shift

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  • Protestant reformation
  • enlightenment; scientific rationalism
  • temporary increase in respect for women
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Victorian Era

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  • women restrained and constrained
  • women not troubled with sexual feelings of any kind
  • emotional and physical distance between husband and wife
  • prostitution flourished
  • Mosher’s research contradicts prevailing view
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20th Century

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  • suffrage movement (right to vote)
  • temperance movement (abolition of slavery)
  • right to own property and attend university
  • WWI/WWII expanded roles and became more flexible
  • postwar: return to stricter roles
  • 1960’s move for equality
  • 1980’s brought AIDS
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Media and Sexuality

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  • television (news, advice, and education programs) increased sexual material
  • magazines
  • advertising
  • Internet
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15
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Sexual Intelligence

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Understand oneself sexually and having interpersonal sexual skills and integrity

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