Chapter 8: Sexual Behaviors Flashcards
What are the characteristics of male fantasies (according to your text, not our student examples)? What are the characteristics of female fantasies? What are the most common fantasies reported by both men and women?
Characteristics of male fantasies are; more active and focus on a woman’s body and on what they want to do with it, focuses more on explicit sexual acts, nude bodies and physical gratification, multiple partners and group sex, and dominance fantasies. Characteristics of female fantasies are; more passive and focus more on men’s interests in their bodies, more emotional context and romance in their sexual fantasies, and submissive fantasies.
What is the difference between celibacy, abstinence, and asexuality?
Celibacy is historically defined as the state of being unmarried; currently defined as not engaging sexual behavior. Abstinence is abstaining from sexual intercourse. Asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction to either sex.
What is the difference between a fantasy and sexual behavior?
The difference between a fantasy and sexual behavior is a fantasy is forms of sexual experience that occur within a person’s mind, with or without sexual behavior. Sexual behavior is doing sexual actions and activities.
What are sodomy laws and who do they target?
Sodomy laws are laws that prohibit oral and/or anal sex between adults of any sexual orientation. They target any sexual orientation, but mostly homosexuals.
Define foreplay. What is sex? “Normal” sex? What are some of the problems with the common American definition of sex being penile/vaginal intercourse?
Foreplay is also known as tribadism which is rubbing one’s genitals against another’s body or genitals. Sex is intercourse between two partners, while “normal” sex is sexual intercourse between a male and female (penile/vaginal intercourse).
What is the most common sexual behavior among gay men and lesbians?
The most common sexual behavior among gay men and lesbians is cunnilingus, fellatio, mutual masturbation, anal sex/anal play, tribadism and toys.
What types of devices/products were developed to prevent masturbation?
Types of devices/products that were developed to prevent masturbation are certain foods (Kellog cereal and graham crackers), bandaging the genitals, tying one’s hands at night, clitoridectomy, apply carbolic acid to the clitoris, and suturing foreskins shut as well as employing mechanical devices on the genitals.
What is a dildo? A vibrator? Ben Wa Balls? How are they used and what is their function?
A dildo is an artificial penis. A vibrator is any of various machines or devices causing a vibratory motion or action. Ben Wa Balls are two balls, one hollow and one filled with a heavy liquid which are inserted into the vagina while the woman lies on a hammock or sits in a swing in order for the motion to move the balls and create inner sensations.
What is cunnilingus? Fellatio? Coitus? Autoeroticism? “69?” Analingus?
Cunnilingus is oral stimulation of the vulva. Fellatio is oral stimulation of the penis. Coitus is sexual intercourse, especially between a man and woman. Autoeroticism is another term used for masturbation. “69” is the act of two partners performing oral sex/stimulation on each other at the same time. Analingus is oral stimulation to the anus.
What are the purposes of masturbation and fantasies?
The purpose of masturbation is to relieve sexual tension. It is also valuable as means of self-exploration. The purpose of fantasies is to be a source of pleasure and arousal and to help people overcome anxiety and facilitate sexual functioning or compensate for a somewhat negative sexual situation.
How often/frequently are couples in America having sex?
Couples in America are having sex 113 times a year.
