Chapter 11 - Sexuality Flashcards

Question

What is the most common STI?

Answer 1

chlamydia highly infectious, rates rising

Answer 2

health impacts - chronic infections, infertility, cancer, health compromises interpersonal impact - future sexual involvements - sense of self stigma - public and self

Answer 3

lack of planning lack of access - information, availability, anonymity, affordability lack of knowledge - misinformation - poor sexual socialization cognitive limitations - limited ability to think about possibilities - underdeveloped future orientation - egocentric thinking decision making skills - orientation to reward peer norms - risky behaviour more likely when friends engage lack of preparation for and inability to manage strong sexual urges and emotions - cognitive development, emotional development, maturity developing sense/acceptance of sexuality - not ready to acknowledge intent to be sexual or accept their sexuality discomfort in discussing/using safer sex methods religious beliefs intentionality - planned pregnancy intimacy and interpersonal issues - depth/length of relationship - issues of trust/fidelity

Answer 4

15-29 mostly males

Answer 5

90% of people with HIV to know their status 90% diagnosed to receive treatment 90% achieve viral suppression - low enough level that it can't be spread goal to eliminate threat of HIV by 2030 due to rising infection, 2020 goals not met and behind schedule for 2030

Answer 6

very long (10-15 year) latency period many infected as adolescents and remain asymptomatic until their 20s or 30s - asymptomatic carriers, spread the virus throughout their adolescence many youth HIV positive but unaware because they aren't tested

Answer 7

autoerotic behaviour sexual behaviour experienced alone such as masturbation or sexual fantasizing most make the transition towards sexual activity with others by high school

Answer 8

``` holding hands kissing making out feeling breasts feeling penis feeling vagina intercourse or oral sex ```

Answer 9

adolescents who expect faster timeline of achieving autonomy from parents those who experiment with drugs and alcohol

Answer 10

June for anyone December if in a committed relationship more likely to be sexually active when the weather is very hot or very cold - more unsupervised time when on summer or winter break

Answer 11

rise in sexual debuts among romantic partners in December

Answer 12

attitudes towards premarital intercourse becoming more liberal today's teenagers more sexually active - greatest increase in prevalence of intercourse and greatest decline in age of first intercourse has been among females percentage of adolescents who use alcohol or other drugs prior to having sex has increased

Answer 13

higher androgens (testosterone) more likely to be involved in sexual activity - in boys, level of androgens directly related to likelihood of being sexually active - among girls, though androgens are responsible for increased sex drive, estrogen primarily responsible for change in appearance and influences sexual activity through its impact on physical attractiveness to boys (much more determined by social context than biology) this makes sense! boys develop in an environment much more uniformly tolerant and encouraging of sexual behaviour than girls do

Answer 14

authoritative parenting -> decreased likelihood of risky and early sexual behaviour parental communication about sex has surprisingly little impact on whether adolescents are sexually active divorced/single-parent household adolescents more likely to be sexually active earlier

Answer 15

interactive rather than dominated by parents conversation about contraception attitudes and values communicated and interpreted appropriately by adolescent

Answer 16

opportunities for sex sexually active friends being in a steady relationship use of drugs and alcohol

Answer 17

social influences on girl's sexual behaviour are stronger single parent mothers likely to be dating, may unknowingly be role models of sexual activity girls more likely to go outside the family for alternative sources of warmth and support same gene that makes men more likely to leave their family may make adolescent girls more likely to enter puberty early and become sexually active earlier

Answer 18

only effective on younger adolescents high schoolers will often deny having taken one those who take one less likely to use contraception - encouraging abstinence promotes unsafe sex

Answer 19

development of sexuality revolves around integrating capacity to form close relationships into already existing sense of sexual capacity before dating boys likely to keep matters of sex and intimacy separate, first experiences usually viewed in terms of recreation boys usually initiate sex

Answer 20

masturbation far less common and practiced, so girls likely to experience sex for the first time with another person development of sexuality involves integrating sexual activity into existing capacity for intimacy and emotional involvement - more likely to engage in sex to enhance an emotional connection

Answer 21

males more likely to have same-sex relations before identifying as gay/bisexual, opposite is true for females females more likely to have heterosexual relations before identifying as lesbian/bisexual, opposite is true for males females who have same-sex contact in adolescence almost always do in adulthood, same is not true for males

Answer 22

bi and gay males more likely to describe fathers as distant and rejecting bi and gay females more likely to describe mothers as cold and unpleasant