Chapter 1 Flashcards
Human Sexuality
- 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
Sexuality
- Is not limited to humans as sexual beings
- it is our knowledge, values, beliefs, society, and behaviors
Why study human sexuality?
- Sex is a primary motivator for our behavior
2. Sex is pervasive in our culture
Why else?
- 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
What percentage of pregnancies in the USA would you estimate are planned?
50% at best
Statistics
- 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.
Sex on television
- 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
Recent surveys suggest…
- 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
True or false: most adults in the USA possess good working knowledge of human sexuality.
False
- most have a poor knowledge of human sexuality
- most have not had any sexual education beyond what they learned in secondary school
True or false: increasing sexual knowledge and education of adults will lead to increased sexual promiscuity
False
Sex education faces significant obstacles
- 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
Chief of Justice of the US
John G. Roberts, Jr.
Associate Justices
- Antonin Scalia
- Kennedy
- Clarence Thomas
- Sonia Sotomayer
- Stephen G. Breyer
- Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
- Ruth Ginsberg
- Elena Kagan
Retired:
-Sandra Day O’connor
-David H. Souter
-John Paul Stevens
Constitutional Issues
- Same-sex marriage
2. Abortion Rights
True or false: human sexuality is all about sex
False
Sexual aspect of human behavior..the interplay of 3 major components
- Biological
- Psychological
- Cultural
Sex is about identity
- 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
There are many approaches to the study of sexuality
-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
There are many approaches to the study of sexuality
- 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
Psychopathia Sexualis
-described
1. Masturbation
2. Fetishism
3.
4. Bestiality
5. Necrophilia
And others as deviant
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
- “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
Sex research is becoming a discipline in its own right
- sexology
- sex research
True or false: STDs are rare
False
True or false: the most common STD is herpes
False
True or false: herpes will kill you
False
True or false: AIDS and HIV are the same thing.
False
