Sexuality in Perspective

Question 1

, sexual behaviour

Answer 1

s behaviour that produces or that is intended to produce arousal.

Question 2

Historical Perspective

Answer 2

• Close link between religious & historical perspectives
• Now religion, science, courts, & media

Question 3

Historical Methods to study sexuallity

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• Examining documents, art, artefacts (ancient or modern)
• information at that time was based on Biases
• and we ourselves bring our own biases
  -Class bias
  -Sexist bias
  -Education bias
• ** Ethnocentrism:** the belife that their groups belifes are the norm and compering everthing else to that

Question 4

A Brief History

Question 5

Prehistoric

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worship of women’s ability to bear children

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Ancient Hebrews

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procreation and pleasure, polygamy

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Ancient Greece

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homosexuality, bisexuality, pederasty(older man would take an adolecent boy in a relationship),
prostitution (courtesans and concubines)

Question 8

Ancient Rome

Answer 8

sexual behaviour between man okay,between woman not okay,orgies (Caligula)

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The East

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Muslims

Answer 10

sex within marriage, no premarital sex,
polygamy

Question 11

Taoists

Answer 11

sexuality and spirituality (yin)

Question 12

Hindus

Answer 12

sex as virtuous and natural, celebrated within
marriage

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Early Christians (400 AD)

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sex for procreation only; non-
procreative sex as sin; virginity (St. Augustine’s
Confessions)

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Middle Ages (500-1500 AD)

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wet dreams, sexual
dysfunction, lust blamed on witchcraft

Question 15

Protestant Reformation (1517-1648)

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some sex not only for
procreation, but to enhance the marital relationship
(extramarital/premarital sex still punished)

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Victorian Era (1837-1901)

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extreme sexual repression,
marital duty for procreation and men’s pleasure
* Dr. Clelia Mosher:-study women sexuality,and discovered that women enjoyed sex and orgasms

Question 17

The Sexual Revolution (1965-1970s)

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social upheaval
in science, music, art, fashion

the pill was intrudeced

gay activism

Question 18

Today:Sexuality and Media

Answer 18

Netflix/TV programs:
* average of 17 instances of sexual talk/behaviour per hour

Media has 3 types of influence:

• cultivation: belife that what people see in the media represents real life
• agenda-setting: algorithem choose what to report and what to ignore send a massage what is important and what is not important
• social learning what see in the media serves as model for us to emitate

Question 19

Conclusions

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• All societies regulate sex
• Different societies have accepted different behaviour,
  attitudes
• Great differences across religions and within religions

Question 20

History of Sex Research

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• Began in 19th Century
• Names to know: Freud, Havelock Ellis, Krafft- Ebing, Hirshfeld, Kinsey, Masters & Johnson
• Currently many sex researchers, professional societies, sexuality journals

Question 21

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

victorian era

Answer 21

• psychodynamic theory:

how early experiences and uncouseous motivation interacts to determines someones personality and behaviour

he also created the concept of libido - as psychlogical motivation

also psychosexual development

Question 22

Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

victorian era

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• British physician
• Studies in the Psychology of Sex
• first to write about homosexuality in a compassionate way
• also wrote about trangenderism, which he called sexo-aesthetic inversion and later, eonism
• attributed it to over-identification with the admired object (i.e., women)

Question 23

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902)

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• German psychiatrist and sexologist
• pathlogical sexuality
• Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
• non-procreative sex was a perversion

Question 24

4 categories of “sexual perversions”:

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paradoxia: sexual response at the wrong time in life

**anesthesia: **insufficient sexual desire

**hyperesthesia: **excessive sexual desire

**paraesthesia: **sexual desire for the wrong goal or object

Question 25

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)

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• ** Founder of the first sex research institute**
• Administered the first large-scale sex survey
• Established the first journal devoted to the scientific study of sexuality

Question 26

Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956)

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• first major published large sex survey

the survey had within them :

-prevalence of homosexuality

-extramarital sex

-multiple orgasm

Question 27

William Masters (1915-2001)
and Virginia Johnson (1925-2013)

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• first to look at physiological sexual response in men and
  women
• study :intercourse, masturbation in the lab
• by hooking people in machines and observing them having sexs
• 4-phase model of sexual response

Question 28

4-phase model of sexual response

Answer 28

4-phase model of sexual response
* Excitement phase
* Plateau phase
* Orgasm
* Resolution phase

some contraversis

Question 29

Cross-Cultural
Perspectives

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Anthropological/Cross Cultural
Perspective

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 Culture: the traditional ideas and values passed down from
generation to generation within a group and transmitted to
members of the group by symbols

 Method: participant observation

 Biases in method:
-Hawthorne effect (observer effect): individuals modify their behaviour when aware of being observed

-Ethnocentrism

Question 31

Variations Across Cultures

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• Sexual frequency
• Sexual techniques(ex:kissing involved)
• Masturbation
• Premarital sex
• Extramarital sex
• Sex with same-sex partners
• Standards of attractiveness

Question 32

Conclusions from Cross-Cultural
Studies

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• Enormous variation in sexual attitudes and behaviour
  across cultures
• Helps put our own standards and behaviour inperspective
• Importance of culture and learning - influences over sexuality

Question 33

Canada vs. USA

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simmilarities: thresomes, nightstands, womens sexual partners

diferences : canadians have more sex outdors, teen americans more likely to get pregnant,women are allowed to walk around topless in canada

Question 34

Variations Within a Culture

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Different norms for different subgroups
-e.g. norms affected by age, SES, ethnicity, gender

Within subcultures (e.g., immigrant communities) attitudes & behaviour affected by
-Culture of origin
-Acculturation to Canadian culture

Question 35

Variations Within a Culture

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• Largest and fastest growing immigrant groups in Canada:
  -South Asian
  -East Asian
• In general, these cultures tend to uphold more traditional values surrounding:
• Gender roles
• Sexual orientation

Question 36

canadians statistics

Answer 36

Within Canada
* frequency of sex
average number of
lifetime partners: 12
> 20: 23% of men;
13% of women
17%lifetime sexual
monogamy

Question 37

Within Canada Difference across pronvinces*

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• Quebec is the most sexually liberal
• more likely to have sexual intercourse at a younger age, to
  live as common-laws, and have extramarital sex
  Variations Within a Culture

Question 38

Biological Perspective/Cross Species
Behaviour

Answer 38

No behaviour unique to humans

 e.g. masturbation(monkeys,porkpaine), oral sex(monkeys), same-sex sexual behaviour, female orgasm(monkeys)

 Less hormonal and biological control as go up evolutionary scale