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Human Sexuality

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  • a part of your personality. It involves how you think and feel…and incorporates your biology, psychology, as well as your culture.
  • constantly changing, evolving…as you grow and change
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Sexuality

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  • Is not limited to humans as sexual beings

- it is our knowledge, values, beliefs, society, and behaviors

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Why study human sexuality?

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  1. Sex is a primary motivator for our behavior

2. Sex is pervasive in our culture

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Why else?

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  • understanding the structure and function of our body-improves your sexual fulfillment
  • Understanding your wants and needs about sex in relationships increases the likelihood of you entering into a satisfactory fulfilling relationship
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What percentage of pregnancies in the USA would you estimate are planned?

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50% at best

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Statistics

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  • over 75% of all unplanned pregnancies occur to women in their teens and twenties
  • > 1.5 million unplanned pregnancies to women in their twenties each year.
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Sex on television

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  • sexual content appears in more than 65% of tv shows
  • those programs with sexual content average 4.5 sex scenes per hour
  • approximately 14% includes a portrayal of sexual intercourse, depicted or strongly simplified
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Recent surveys suggest…

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  • that most sexually experienced teens wish they waited to have intercourse;
  • unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are more common among those who begin sexual behavior earlier
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True or false: most adults in the USA possess good working knowledge of human sexuality.

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False

  • most have a poor knowledge of human sexuality
  • most have not had any sexual education beyond what they learned in secondary school
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True or false: increasing sexual knowledge and education of adults will lead to increased sexual promiscuity

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False

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Sex education faces significant obstacles

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  • only 15% of US school districts teach sex educations that includes both abstinence and contraception education
  • comprehensive sex education is associated with less sexual activity in teens while abstinence only programs are not
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Chief of Justice of the US

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John G. Roberts, Jr.

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Associate Justices

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  1. Antonin Scalia
  2. Kennedy
  3. Clarence Thomas
  4. Sonia Sotomayer
  5. Stephen G. Breyer
  6. Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
  7. Ruth Ginsberg
  8. Elena Kagan
    Retired:
    -Sandra Day O’connor
    -David H. Souter
    -John Paul Stevens
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Constitutional Issues

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  1. Same-sex marriage

2. Abortion Rights

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True or false: human sexuality is all about sex

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False

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Sexual aspect of human behavior..the interplay of 3 major components

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  1. Biological
  2. Psychological
  3. Cultural
17
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Sex is about identity

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  • gender identity is a persons sense of being male or female
  • –transgender or transsexual people may change their body habits to match their gender identity
  • –homosexual and bisexual people may consider their sexual orientation to be a bigger part of their identity than heterosexual people
  • other aspects of sexuality may also influence a persons identity
18
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There are many approaches to the study of sexuality

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-the discovery of sex hormones by endocrinologist has led to the development of oral contraceptive in vitro fertilization, treatment for sexual dysfunction, and treatment for breast and prostate cancer

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There are many approaches to the study of sexuality

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  • Biomedical researchers such as William masters and Virginia Johnson have identified sexual mechanisms such as the sexual response cycle
  • psychiatrists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing have tended to view sexual problems as mental diseases
20
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Psychopathia Sexualis

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-described
1. Masturbation
2. Fetishism
3.
4. Bestiality
5. Necrophilia
And others as deviant

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Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

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  • “Medicalization” of sex, and sexual behaviors, has consequences-
  • his decision to state homosexuality as a “deviant” behavior contributed to a legacy
  • how?
  • -homosexuality in DSM until 1973
22
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Sex research is becoming a discipline in its own right

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  • sexology

- sex research

23
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True or false: STDs are rare

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False

24
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True or false: the most common STD is herpes

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False

25
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True or false: herpes will kill you

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False

26
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True or false: AIDS and HIV are the same thing.

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False

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