Chapter 8 Flashcards
Home/Family, Religion, Society, Cultures, Education, and Laws are people who regulate ____.
Sexuality
The process by which a person learns of and internalizes their sexual self concepts, values, attitudes and behaviors
Sexuality
This theory refers to innate, genetic, hormonal and physiological factors involved in human sexuality
Biological Theory
This theory refers to socialization and social control factors, i.e. media, exposure, what is expected based upon outside controls, etc
Social Theory
This theory refers to sexual dyad embedded in larger networks of social relationships, i.e families/communities
Social Network Theory
This theory focuses on decision making and how individuals choose what to do. What is in it for me? Economic stability, sexual desirability, time?
Choice Theory
This theory focuses on what is perceived to be sexual and how we construct our ideas, thoughts and fantasies.
Scripting Theory
This provides an overall blueprint of what sexuality is and how it is practiced.
Sexual Scripting
This kind of scripting explains how society affects/impacts sexuality
Cultural
This kind of scripting explains how behaviors influenced by others
Interpersonal
This kind of scripting explains how internal dialogue/world of fantasy
Intrapsychic
This is an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or affectional attraction to another person
Sexual Orientation
Same sex is called ___.
Homosexuality
Different sex is called ___.
Heterosexual
Both sexes equally is called ___.
Bisexual
A social process whereby the rules for acceptable social behavior are constructed by labeling unacceptable behaviors and attaching negative images and sanctions to those labels
Heteronormativity
Men and women are naturally different from each other and this difference defines not only the nature and purpose of sexuality but also sustains other inequalities that exist based on gender
Gender Binary
Involves a contrast between “real” families defined by the presents of a father and a mother and that “pseudo” families defined by undesirable conditions such as single parenting and cohabitation
Family Binary
For non-marital sexual behaviors family, peers, religion, age, cultural norms is called
Family Antecedents
For non-marital sexual behaviors adolescence, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol is called
Non Family Influences
For non-marital sexual behaviors school, religions, media
Formal Sex Education
A person who has never been married
Premarital
This changes through years
Sexual Permissiveness
Birth control, contraception, verbal candor, media coverage, internet, etc.
Changes in Premarital Activity
STD’s is known as
High Risk Sexual Behaviors
Takes “unnatural” sex and attempts to constrain sexual behavior to heterosexual behavior, and that other forms are “deviant”.
Sexuality Binary
