Sexuality Flashcards
What generation has most amount of sexual partners?
Baby Boomers
5 factors that may be associated with young people having less sex
1) Higher rates of mental illness
2) More internet (video games, pornography)
3) Informed consent, more autonomy
4) More focus on personal achievement
5) Higher rates of living with parents
A decline in _____ use may be associated with a decline in casual sex in young people
alcohol
4 Dating Stressors?
1) Mixed signals
2) Mismatch (different expectations/needs)
3) Ambiguous rejection (ghosting, unclear communication)
4) harassment after relationship dissolution/expression of disinterest
4 Dating Stressors?
1) Mixed signals
2) Mismatch (different expectations/needs)
3) Ambiguous rejection (ghosting, unclear communication)
4) harassment after relationship dissolution/expression of disinterest
4 facts about sexual identification
1) Sexual attraction and behaviours have always existed, but identities based on them have not
2) Sexual acts had different meaning depending on the social, cultural, and historical context
3) Only recently have people understood others in terms of sexual identity
4) Sexual attraction, behaviour, and identity are related, but distinct
How was sexuality seen in Chinese History?
Concept of sexual orientation did not exist, sex was seen as an integral part of life and gender was unimportant. Concept of sexual orietnation was imported from the west, it didn’t previously exist.
Young women could become economically independent and celibate by choice. If two women developed intimacy they could vow to be lifelong spinsters live as husband and wife and treated respectfully.
How was sex defined historically?
Defined by the participation of a penis. Sex between women was unimportant
Define sodomy
Sexual intercourse that is NOT involved with joining of sexual genitals of a man and a woman
What happened in Florence from 1432-1502
7000 men were incriminated for sodomy
Why were men same sex encounters penalized more harshly than women’s in North American colonies?
Men wasted ‘seed,’ women did not
Emergence of sexual identities:
A) 1700s
B) 18th Century
C) Early 1800s
D) Mid 1800s-mid1900s
A) Emerging understanding of different types of people in Northwestern Europe
B) Same-sex intimacy became recognized and important
C) In much of America and Europe, men were categorized based on sexual practices and masculinity level, less focus on categorizing women.
In North America, it was not odd for men to top other men, but women who were homosexual were considered witches.
D) Today’s common sexual identities were spread across the western world.
How and when did heterosexuality emerge?
In the 19th and 20th centuries, gender norms created heterosexuality as an identity and insistence on exclusive heterosexuality emerged in the crisis of middle-class masculinity. New jobs emerged that did not involve physical labour and masculinity was threatened so liking women was strongly associated with being a man.
Three other factors that led to emergence of sexual identity
1) New economic system that allowed people to live independent of their families
2) Urbanization
3) New medical framework for classifying people
Define brothels
In 18th century, gay houses
