Chapter 6: sexual behavior Flashcards
What is the Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University, 2010 study about happiness?
- 2,250 men and women agreed to be called at random times by an automated iPhone app that asked them what they were doing at the time and how happy there were.
- People are happiest making love.
In Parks et al., 2021 study about singles’ sexual satisfaction is associated with more satisfaction with singlehood and less interest in marriage conclusion?
- the more sexually satisfied you are, the more you are satisfied with life.
What did the Herbenick et al., 2010 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior figure out about masturbation?
- nearly 6,000 Americans that had engaged in masturbation, oral sex, coitus, or anal sex within the previous 12 months.
- women and men between 25 to 29 = sex with a partner is more frequent.
- sex with a partner usually makes people happy during the act itself and boosts it throughout the day.
How is the term masturbation defined?
- sexual self-stimulation. sometimes also used to refer to manual stimulation of another person’s genitalia.
Masturbation in the Animal kingdom (Roth et al., 2023) hypotheses in non-human primate, human, and cross species indicate?
- most of the time for males and females use it for self-cleaning purposes and to help stay aroused.
What is a jugum penis or pollutions ring?
anti masturbatory device developed in the 18th century
Does masturbation contribute to good health? (Rider et al., 2016)
- frequent ejaculation, whether by solo or partner sex, is associated with an approximately 20% reduction in the risk of prostate cancer.
What did the data from the E. Laumann et al. 1994 report find about U.S. women and men who masturbated at least once in the previous 12 months? (NHSLS and NSSHB surveys)
- men masturbate more than women
- people over 50 (women more so) masturbate less than those in younger age groups.
- the more educated a person, the more likely it is that they masturbate.
- African Americans masturbate less than other ethnicities.
- Women (but not men) who have a religious affiliation-especially as fundamentalist Protestant - masturbate less than women who have no religious affiliation.
- people who lack a regular sex partner masturbate slightly more than people who have a partner.
What percentage do men and women reached orgasm through masturbation?
- men = 82%
- women = 61%
Can masturbatory guilt lead to severe psychopathology? (Aneja et al., 2015)
- it is a thing but it needs more research.
- in this case study three cases of masturbatory guilt are presented in whom masturbatory guilt was associated with manifestation of severe psychopathology.
What is the prostate stagnation hypothesis?
- it may influence PCa development through a variety of specific mechanisms.
- one biological mechanism involves prostatic accumulation of potentially carcinogenic secretions, which may create more opportunity for PCa development, sometimes referred to as the prostate stagnation hypothesis.
What is the relationship between masturbation and non-solo sexual activity? (Regnerus et al., 2017)
- very little evidence exists for the relation between masturbation and sexual relationships.
- two models of sexual behaviors are: compensatory and complementary.
- one model is compensatory that is practicing masturbation to replace desired sexual relationships.
- second model is complementary hypothesizes that a direct positive relation exists between both these sexual activities, and increasing the practice of one would be associated with an increase in the other.
- however, for women it looks to serve a more complementary role in those who are partnered. and men tend to masturbate more if they are sexually unsatisfied.
- also aligns with Hebernick et al., 2023)
What is the study (S. Andrea Miller and E. Sandra Byers, UNB) stereotype that women are much more into foreplay than men?
= foreplay duration for females = 18.93
= Foreplay duration for males = 18.10
- foreplay is linked to both sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction in women and men.
What is tribadism?
sexual behavior between two women who lie front to front and stimulate each other’s vulvas with thrusting motions.
What is fallatio?
sexual contact between the mouth of one person and the penis of another.
What is the multivariate analysis?
- it showed that reaching orgasm frequently was positively correlated to the domain of ‘women liking sex’ and the partner performing foreplay.
- negatively associated with having irregular menses, depression, stress, not liking sex, too little foreplay or after play, low frequency of sex, irregular frequency of sex, poor emotional relationship with the partner, and dissatisfaction with the partner’s erectile function, ejaculatory control, or penis size.
- 83% reported that their partner performed foreplay
- 48% found that the amount of foreplay to be adequate
- 30% would prefer more
- 5% would prefer less.
- 44% of women said yes when asked if partner performs after play
- 29% found it to be adequate
- 11% would prefer more
- 4% would prefer less.
- women said (88%) foreplay was important or very important for sexual satisfaction.
- 48% after play as important for sexual satisfaction.
What is some female masturbation techniques?
_ they vary widely, but generally focus on manual stimulation of the clitoris, possibly with help of vibrator, which is a great match for the sensory receptors we previously discussed.
- penetration and stimulation of other body areas (e.g., breasts) may also be involved.
