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23 Cards in this Set
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Differences in human sexuality between the USA and Canada
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1) Canada has a lower birth rate
2) Americans have a higher church attendance 3) Canada is more liberal |
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What was the first ever taboo?
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Incest
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Examples of Phallic Symbols
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axe, plough, sword
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What caused the appearance of Phallic symbols?
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Movement into agragrian society, people learned about the male role in reproduction
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What was the core sexual view of the ancient Hebrews?
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be fruitful and multiply
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what were the ancient hebrew's goal for sex?
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pleasure and procreation
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Three core aspects of Greek sexuality
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1) male-male sex
2) pederasty 3) prostitution |
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What is the difference between greek women and woman women?
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roman women shared husbands social lives (but they were still secondary citizens)
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What were ideals of early Christians?
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sex was for marriage only, virgin brides, no non-procreative activity
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What were the ideals of early islam?
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sexual fulfillment in marriage, no premarital sex, men were allowed multiple wives,
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What were the ideals of Taoist China?
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that sex was a sacred duty
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What were the taoists in ancient china against?
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spilling seed
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What is the Kama Sutra?
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Hindu sex manual
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What were the concepts of women in the Middle ages?
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Eve the temptress and Mary the pure
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What were the sexual views during the protestant reformation?
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sexual expression in marriage was good
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What were the sexual views during the Victorian era?
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time of sexual repression
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What is the biological perspective of sexuality?
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focus on the roles of genes, hormones, the nervous system and other biological factors that affect human sexuality
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what is the evolutionary perspective of sexuality?
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natural selection ensures the traits favourable to survival survive, which affects sexuality
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What is erotic plasticity?
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how much sexual behaviour varies
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What is psychoanalytic theory?
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the theory of personality originated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behaviour represents the outcome of clashing inner forces
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what is psychosexual development?
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in psychoanalytic theory, the process by which sexual feelings shift from one erogenous zone to the other
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what is fixation?
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in psychoanalytic theory, arrested development, which includes attachment to traits and sexual preferences that are characteristic of an earlier stage of psychosocial development
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what is socio-cognitive theory?
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a cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning, values, and expectations play key roles in determining behaviour
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