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session 1 Flashcards

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Sex

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Genetic and physical characteristics that differentiate male and female.

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Gender

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psychosocial characteristics that differentiate masculinity and feminity.

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Sexulaity

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The psychological, social, cultural and spiritual aspect of an individual that make up his or her unique sexual being.

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Dailey’s 5 aspects of sexuality

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  1. Sensuality
  2. Intimacy
  3. Sexual Identity
  4. Health Issues
  5. Sexualization
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Sensuality

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The need and ability to be aware of and accepting of our own body.

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Intimacy

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The need and ability to experience emotional closeness to another being.

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Sexual intimacy

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Ability to give feedback and to be heard in sexual relationship

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Sexual identity

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Continual process fo discovering who we are in terms of our sexuality; one part of our total identity

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6 Values, attitudes and behaviours related to reproduction

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  • Reproductive bias re-values and attitudes
  • Renewal of life: morality issues
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Lifestyle
  • Contraception and fertility issues
  • STI including AIDS
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examples of reproductive bias regarding sexuality

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  • Being young
  • Being heterosexual
  • Married couples
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5 ways sexuality influences, control or manipulate others.

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  • Style of dress, appearance, body language
  • Advertising
  • Movies/talks shows etc.
  • Harassment and sexual assault.
  • Paraphilia: voyeurism, exhibitionism, obscene calls, etc.
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Values

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The qualities in life that that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.

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Moral Values

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Related to our conduct with and treatment of other people, more than right or wrong.

Looks at the entire picture.

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Sexual Moral Values

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Related to the rightness and wrongness of sexual conduct and when and how sexuality should be expressed.

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Sources of Sexual Value

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Learned in different ways, at different rates, and with different results.

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Prehistoric (Stone Age) perspective on sexuality

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Female body was revered for reproductive ability.

Male role in reproduction, phallic worship began.
- penis being a symbol of
fertility and power

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Ancient Hebrews perspective on sexuality

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  • Positive about marital reproductive sex.
  • Disapproved homosexuality.
  • Women were property of husbands
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Ancient Greek perspective on sexuality

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  • Values family life. male sexual roles varies, eg. pederasty.
  • admired male bodies and slim, sensual women.
  • prostitution flourished. viewed men and women as bisexual.
  • women under male dominance.
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Ancient Romans perspective on sexuality

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  • Sexual excesses in upper classes
  • Terminology of Latin roots
  • male-male threat to family which was strength of society
  • Women more involved socially but still property of husbands
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Early Christians perspective on sexuality

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  • Sex being a distraction of God.
  • Linked to original sin
  • marital sex accepted, but not passion.
  • behaviours non-procreative disapproval
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Islams perspective on sexuality

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  • valued family and pleasure in marital sex
  • punished pre-marital sex
  • double social abd sexual standards for men and women
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India’s perspective on sexuality

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  • Ancient Hindus erotica
  • Kama Sutra code of sexual conduct
  • sex religious duty
  • doctrine of karma: reincarnated more restrictive
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China’s perspective on sexuality

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  • sexually linked to spirituality
  • scared duty
  • first manual art of love making
  • wasteful to “spill seed”
  • women kept to domestic role
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Middle age’s perspective on sexuality

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  • church strong influence
  • crusaders influenced change from women as sinful to revered.
  • upper classes courtly love, chivalry and romance
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Protestant Reformation perspective on sexuality

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  • Luther and Calvin split from R.C church
  • Priest could marry
  • pleasurable marital sex
  • non-marital sex disapproved
  • women mostly restrict to home until 19th century,
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Victorian Period’s perspective on sexuality

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  • sexually repressive on the surface.
  • furniture legs covered but behaviours varied.
  • Prostitution flourished but “proper” women believed not interested
  • “sexual anaesthesia”
  • mens vital fluids limited in amount … Graham Crackers
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Early 20th century’s perspective on sexuality

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  • believed women did not desire sex
  • individuals have double standards.
  • Limited sexual scene in media.
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Mid 60’s - 70’s perspective on sexuality

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  • Known as the sexual revolution

- science, politics, social(fashion, music and media) and economics all part of change

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Late 20th Century’s perspective on sexuality

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  • Has a Revers Pendulum Swing to a more Conservative attitude.
  • there were open studies about sexuality, more sexually active teens, AID outbreaks, Access to birth control, liberation of women and education for sex.
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Biological perspective on sexuality

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  • focuses on the mechanism of reproduction

- understanding the increase of anatomical and physiological function on sexuality and sexual dysfunction.

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Sociological and anthropological perspective on sexuality

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  • Cross-Cultural
  • learned behaviour unique to the particular culture
  • kissing, higher rate of intercourse for young adults.
    -incest taboo and some societal control
    various attitudes towards same sex, masturbation, monogamy and polygamy
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Cross-Cultural

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  • learned behaviour unique to the particular culture
  • kissing, higher rate of intercourse for young adults.
    -incest taboo and some societal control
    various attitudes towards same sex, masturbation, monogamy and polygamy
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Sociocultural

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The study of sexual behaviours within a given society

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Freud’s psychoanalytic Theory

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  • Sexual instinct vs. Reason
  • Defence mechanism
  • development stages of psychoanalysis
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Watson and Skinner’s Learning Theory

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-Behaviour determines reward or punishment

36
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Social-Learning theory

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  • The effects of cognitive

activity through anticipating, planning, etc… as well as learning by observation.

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Havelock Ellis’s Sexual research

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  • studied the psychology of sex
  • Found out that female sexual desire normal and homosexuality acceptable and inborn

-Positive Research

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Richard von Krafft-Ebbing’s Sexual research

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  • Was a psychopath Sexualis
  • Viewed deviances as mental illnesses that should be treater
  • Negative Research
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Sigmund Freud’s Sexual research

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Austrian Physician theory of personality based on sex drive as our principle motivating force…
- Positive Research

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Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual research

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  • A zoologist who first performed a comprehensive survey 12,000 subject interview
  • sexual behaviour in Human Males in 1948 and Human females in 1953
  • Huge Positive research
41
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William Masters & Virginia Johnson’s Sexual research

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  • Observed ~700 subjects within their lab
  • discovered the Human sexual response in 1966. made a similar one for the gay population
  • discovered the 4 staged of a sexual response
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Edward Laumann’s Sex Research Survey

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  • constructed the national health and social life survey
  • 3432 subjects were interviewed
  • included a variety of ethnic groups with limitations of asians, native and jewish.
43
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Morton Hunt’s Sex Research Survey

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-created the playboy foundation survey

44
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Shere Hite’s Sex research Survey

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Reports 3000 females and 7000 males results on questionnaire.\

45
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Kinsley Institues sex research survey

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reports on gays within 1978-1981.

- discovered over 900 openly gay subjects within San Fran

46
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According to survey results, who most likely believes “sex is right when it feels right”?

Males or Females

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Males

47
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According to survey results, who most likely practices “sex is right when it feels right”

Males or Females

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Males

48
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What is the average age for people to experience their first mutual sexual practice

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16-18yrs.

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