Chapter 9 - Concepts

Question 1

Different traditional heteronormative lifestyles experienced during adulthood that influence how adults experience sexuality.

Answer 1

Single; dating; cohabitation; marriage; extramarital sex; divorce.

Question 2

Ways that menopause and postmenopause affect sexuality for women.

Answer 2

Decreases in lubrication. Significant menopausal symptoms: mood swings, depressive feelings, sleep disturbances, fatigue, irritability, hot flashes, and night sweats.
Enjoying sex less; lower sex drives; self stimulating less often; decreased intercourse.

Question 3

Physical and hormonal-related changes in aging men

Answer 3

Takes longer to have an erection; penis less sensitive to stimulation; erections are less firm and less reliable. Testicles shrink, ejaculations less forceful. Decreased subjective pleasure with orgasm. Refractory period increases. Decrease in testosterone.

Question 4

Age children typically start to masturbate.

Answer 4

Age of two or three.

Question 5

Masturbation in young children is motivated by?

Answer 5

Curiosity and exploration, rather than sexual desire.

Question 6

Age children begin to notice that there are physical differences between males and females.

Answer 6

Ages one and two.

Question 7

Playing doctor is common between what ages?

Answer 7

Ages two and five. Almost half of children engage in these types of games by age six.

Question 8

Describe sexually healthy children

Answer 8

They feel good about their bodies, are respectful of others, understand the concept of privacy, make age appropriate decisions, feel comfortable asking their parents questions about sexuality, and are prepared for the changes of puberty.

Question 9

What is a “askable parent”?

Answer 9

Parents who welcome opportunities to talk to their children about sexuality, rather than waiting for questions. They take advantage of “teachable moments”.

Question 10

As adults, children who know a lot about sexuality are more likely to…?

Answer 10

Make informed and responsible sexual choices.

Question 11

Age of preadolescence

Answer 11

8 to 12

Question 12

Freud referred to preadolescence as what…?

Answer 12

The latency period.

Question 13

Children’s interest in sex typically increases during…?

Answer 13

Preadolescence, around the age of 10.

Question 14

What is the primary form of sexual expression among preadolescence?

Answer 14

Masturbation.

Question 15

When does a child’s interest in dating increase?

Answer 15

Towards the end of preadolescence.

Question 16

Sexualization of girls has been linked to…?

Answer 16

Anxiety about appearance, feelings of shame, eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression.

Question 17

When do the primary sex characteristics change…?

Answer 17

During puberty.

Question 18

When do the secondary sex characteristics develop?

Answer 18

Puberty

Question 19

Menarche begins during…?

Answer 19

Puberty.

Question 20

Secondary sex characteristics that develop in females during puberty are…?

Answer 20

Pubic and axillary hair, breasts, and wider hips.

Question 21

Changes in males during puberty…?

Answer 21

The testes, scrotum, and penis all increase in size. Facial, body, and pubic hair begin to appear. Their larynx enlarges, causing the voice to deepen. Males experience their first ejaculation, increase in the frequency of erections, and nocturnal emissions.

Question 22

Primary sexual expression during adolescence

Answer 22

Masturbation. However, more and more partnered sexual activities begin to occur.

Question 23

What STI has increased in teenagers in recent years?

Answer 23

Chlamydia

Question 24

Are teens more likely to be worried about preventing pregnancy or preventing STI’s?

Answer 24

Preventing pregnancy

Question 25

What type of sex is more prevalent in teenagers age 15 to 19?

Answer 25

Oral sex

Question 26

Victims of bullying offer suffer from…?

Answer 26

Low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, low academic performance, and ostracism. It can also lead to substance abuse and suicide.

Question 27

Four categories of casual sexual relationships

Answer 27

One night stands, booty calls, fuck buddies, and friends with benefits.

Question 28

What percent of couples get divorced if they have live together before marriage?

Answer 28

50% more likely to get divorced

Question 29

Average age of first marriage in Canada

Answer 29

29.1 years for women and 31.1 years for men

Question 30

What is the most important factor for marital satisfaction?

Answer 30

Quality of friendship between the spouses.

Question 31

What model of sexual satisfaction is used for the following statement: “marriages are happy when the rewards outweigh the costs of the relationship, when the expectations of the rewards and costs in the relationships are being met, and when there is perceived equality between the rewards and costs for each partner.”

Answer 31

Interpersonal exchange model of sexual satisfaction

Question 32

It is been legal for same-sex couples to marry in Canada since when…?

Answer 32

2005

Question 33

What percent of men report they’ve had extramarital sex?

Answer 33

22 to 25%

Question 34

What percent of women report that they have had extramarital sex?

Answer 34

11 to 15%

Question 35

What type of infidelity are women were upset by and what type of infidelity are men more upset by?

Answer 35

Women are more upset by emotional infidelity whereas men are more likely to be upset about sexual infidelity.

Question 36

The term for consensual extradyadic sex together with other partners.

Answer 36

Swinging

Question 37

Open relationship

Answer 37

When a couple has discussed and agreed to make the relationship nonmonogamous.

Question 38

How many marriages end in divorce in Canada?

Answer 38

More than one third

Question 39

Average age of first sexual intercourse in Canada

Answer 39

17

Question 40

Four developmental tasks associated with integrating sexuality and longer-term relationships.

Answer 40

Passion, friendship, communication, sexual health.

Question 41

Why do people marry?

Answer 41

Meets personal and cultural needs, legitimizes sexual relations, provides legal structure, permits orderly transmission of wealth, love, companionship, children.

Question 42

Benefits of marriage for same-sex couples

Answer 42

Social sanction, normalization of the relationship, less internalized homophobia, and the same reasons that opposite sex couples marry.

Question 43

Who is more likely to be engaged in extramarital sex?

Answer 43

Men, educated, less religious, more sexual interest, opportunities outside of marriage, love satisfaction in primary relationship.

Question 44

At what age do people usually get divorced?

Answer 44

43 for men, 40 for women

Question 45

Difficulties faced by older men regarding sexuality.

Answer 45

Some difficulties with erection, difficulties reaching orgasm, and lower sexual interest.

Question 46

Difficulties faced by older women regarding sexuality.

Answer 46

Some difficulty with a decrease of vaginal lubrication.

Question 47

Age when most women experience perimenopause

Answer 47

Late 40s

Question 48

Age when most women are postmenopausal

Answer 48

51

Question 49

Menopausal symptoms relating to sexuality

Answer 49

Reduced vaginal lubrication, reduced elasticity of vaginal walls, reduced intensity of muscle spasms during orgasm.

Question 50

Physical and hormone related changes in sexuality in men

Answer 50

Decreases in testosterone associated with a decline in sexual desire, longer time to erection an orgasm, need for more direct stimulation for erection an orgasm, less semen, erections less firm, less intense contractions, longer refractory period.