Human Sexuality Flashcards
Pioneer in HS- first theorized that sexuality begins in infancy
Sigmund Freud (1900’s)
Developed the stages of sexuality: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
Sigmund Freud
Founded the institute for sex research at Indiana University: responsible for Kinsey Report
Alfred Kinsey (1900)
Said that delayed sexual experience was psychologically harmful- Liberated female sexuality
Alfred Kinsey
Kinsey Report
Alfred Kinsey
Wrote the book Psychopathia Sexualis?
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
What others described as disgusting he described as “natural variations”
Richard von Krafft- Ebing
Endorsed homosexuality as a natural occurence and not a disease
Richard von Krafft- Ebing
Observed over 700 ppl having sex and recorded over 10,000 orgasms
William Masters and Virginia Johnson Masters
Developed the four stages of model sexual response cycle?
Masters
What are the four stages of the model sexual response?
Excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution
What is a field of eligible?
individuals who meet a person’s criteria as a potential romantic partner
Theory that people tend to seek romantic and sexual partners who posses a level of physical attraction similar to their own
Matching hypothesis
Theory that the closer you are to another person, the greater the probability that you grow to like or even love the person
Proximity effect
Principle that humans appear to have a natural and usually unconscious tendency to grow fonder of a “novel stimulus” the more often they are exposed to it
Mere exposure effect
Idea that someone you like or love, likes or loves you back; reciprocates your feelings with approximately the same degree of intensity
Reciprocity of attraction
Who developed the “Triangular Theory of Love”
Robert Sternberg
What are the 3 components of love?
intimacy, passion, and commitment
Love based on PASSION but lacks intimacy and commitment
Infatuation
Love based on COMMITMENT but lacking intimacy and real passion
Empty love
Love based on INTIMACY but lacking passion and commitment
Romantic love
type of love that binds parents to children?
Storge
What is gender?
set of social and psychological characteristics that a society considers proper for males and females
T/F Sex and gender are different?
True
People whose gender identity does not match their biological sex they are assigned at birth
transgender
People whose gender identity matches their biological sex
cisgender
Who we are sexually attracted to or not
sexual oreintation
attracted to people of the opposite sex
Heterosexual
attracted to people of the same sex
homosexual
attracted to both genders
bisexual
attracted to everybody
pansexual
not physically attracted to any gender
asexual
does not identify with either sex
agender
a person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; will change gender frequently
gender fluid
you identify and express yourself as biological sex
gender conforming
you identify with one sex but express yourself as the other sex
gender non-conforming
does not identify as a man or a women
gender neutral
lives a man and a woman all the time
bigender
presenting with both male and female characterisitcs
androgynous
cross dressers; explore gender as an art form
drag queens and kings
Inanimate objects elicits sexual arousal
fetishism
sexual arousal is exaggerated associated with a particular body part
partialsim
person repeatedly cross-dresses to achieve sexual arousal or gratification
Transvestism
exposing one’s genitals to unsuspecting strangers; flashing
Exhibitionism
obscene phone calls
telephone scatologia
observing unsuspecting strangers who are naked,
disrobing, or engaged in sex
voyeursim
desire or need for pain or humiliation to
enhance sexual arousal
sexual masochism
Bondage, blindfolding, spanking, whipping, humiliating acts
sexual masochism
people who become sexual aroused by inflicting
pain or humiliation on others
sexual sadist
enhancing sexual arousal by becoming
deprived of oxygen
Hypoxyphilia
Can result in death
Hypoxyphilia
mutually gratifying sexual interaction between consenting partners to inflict pain and humiliation oneach other
Sadomascochism
rubbing against or touching a nonconsenting
person; mashing
Frotteurism
persistent urge to fondle a nonconsenting stranger
Toucherism
sexual contact with animals; beastiality
Zoophilia
sexual activity with corpses
Necrophilia
sexual arousal from enemas
Kismaphilia
sexual arousal is attained with feces
Coprophila
sexual arousal is associated with urine
urophilia
Foot fetish
partialism