Chapter 9 - Concepts Flashcards
Different traditional heteronormative lifestyles experienced during adulthood that influence how adults experience sexuality.
Single; dating; cohabitation; marriage; extramarital sex; divorce.
Ways that menopause and postmenopause affect sexuality for women.
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.
Physical and hormonal-related changes in aging men
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.
Age children typically start to masturbate.
Age of two or three.
Masturbation in young children is motivated by?
Curiosity and exploration, rather than sexual desire.
Age children begin to notice that there are physical differences between males and females.
Ages one and two.
Playing doctor is common between what ages?
Ages two and five. Almost half of children engage in these types of games by age six.
Describe sexually healthy children
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.
What is a “askable parent”?
Parents who welcome opportunities to talk to their children about sexuality, rather than waiting for questions. They take advantage of “teachable moments”.
As adults, children who know a lot about sexuality are more likely to…?
Make informed and responsible sexual choices.
Age of preadolescence
8 to 12
Freud referred to preadolescence as what…?
The latency period.
Children’s interest in sex typically increases during…?
Preadolescence, around the age of 10.
What is the primary form of sexual expression among preadolescence?
Masturbation.
When does a child’s interest in dating increase?
Towards the end of preadolescence.
Sexualization of girls has been linked to…?
Anxiety about appearance, feelings of shame, eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression.
When do the primary sex characteristics change…?
During puberty.
When do the secondary sex characteristics develop?
Puberty
Menarche begins during…?
Puberty.
Secondary sex characteristics that develop in females during puberty are…?
Pubic and axillary hair, breasts, and wider hips.
Changes in males during puberty…?
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.
Primary sexual expression during adolescence
Masturbation. However, more and more partnered sexual activities begin to occur.
What STI has increased in teenagers in recent years?
Chlamydia
Are teens more likely to be worried about preventing pregnancy or preventing STI’s?
Preventing pregnancy
What type of sex is more prevalent in teenagers age 15 to 19?
Oral sex
Victims of bullying offer suffer from…?
Low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, low academic performance, and ostracism. It can also lead to substance abuse and suicide.
Four categories of casual sexual relationships
One night stands, booty calls, fuck buddies, and friends with benefits.
What percent of couples get divorced if they have live together before marriage?
50% more likely to get divorced
Average age of first marriage in Canada
29.1 years for women and 31.1 years for men
What is the most important factor for marital satisfaction?
Quality of friendship between the spouses.
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.”
Interpersonal exchange model of sexual satisfaction
It is been legal for same-sex couples to marry in Canada since when…?
2005
What percent of men report they’ve had extramarital sex?
22 to 25%
What percent of women report that they have had extramarital sex?
11 to 15%
What type of infidelity are women were upset by and what type of infidelity are men more upset by?
Women are more upset by emotional infidelity whereas men are more likely to be upset about sexual infidelity.
The term for consensual extradyadic sex together with other partners.
Swinging
Open relationship
When a couple has discussed and agreed to make the relationship nonmonogamous.
How many marriages end in divorce in Canada?
More than one third
Average age of first sexual intercourse in Canada
17
Four developmental tasks associated with integrating sexuality and longer-term relationships.
Passion, friendship, communication, sexual health.
Why do people marry?
Meets personal and cultural needs, legitimizes sexual relations, provides legal structure, permits orderly transmission of wealth, love, companionship, children.
Benefits of marriage for same-sex couples
Social sanction, normalization of the relationship, less internalized homophobia, and the same reasons that opposite sex couples marry.
Who is more likely to be engaged in extramarital sex?
Men, educated, less religious, more sexual interest, opportunities outside of marriage, love satisfaction in primary relationship.
At what age do people usually get divorced?
43 for men, 40 for women
Difficulties faced by older men regarding sexuality.
Some difficulties with erection, difficulties reaching orgasm, and lower sexual interest.
Difficulties faced by older women regarding sexuality.
Some difficulty with a decrease of vaginal lubrication.
Age when most women experience perimenopause
Late 40s
Age when most women are postmenopausal
51
Menopausal symptoms relating to sexuality
Reduced vaginal lubrication, reduced elasticity of vaginal walls, reduced intensity of muscle spasms during orgasm.
Physical and hormone related changes in sexuality in men
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.
