Human Sexuality Midterm 2

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interviewing children

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raises opposition
use talking computer
mostly involve surveys

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quality of relationship with parents can be

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important for later sexual or emotional relationships

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examples of sexualization

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beauty pageants
sexual harrassment by peers
bratz dolls

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Freud believed that after age 7

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sexuality does not change

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freud - sexual latency

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because of parental punishment (not true)

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Kinsey - survey of masturbation

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asked if masturbated before puberty
masturbation is source of sexual motivation

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example stove (Gagnon and Simon)

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don't touch stove
sometimes hot sometimes not
teach when its hot
then teach how to use it

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Big Lie - Schaefer

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child=good
sex=bad
child+sex=bad

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why parents dont want to talk about sex

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too embarrassed
dont want to find out their kids are having sex
uninformed
new developments

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why is there a perception of widespread oppostion

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people are well organized
ex. protests in Green Bay?

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poorest sex ed is in

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poorest neighborhoods

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pre 1950s standards

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only for reproduction
pleasure should not happen
females have no sexual desire

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1950s: 2 categories of women

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commercial sex workers or nymphomaniacs

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1959-1963 premarital permissiveness

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Reiss:
no sex before marriage
with affection
if both people wanted
double standard (men not women)
mailed out survey

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DeLamater and MacCorquodale same survey as Reiss

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more permissable
disappearance of the double standard

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4 influences of premarital status

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religion
parents
culture
peers

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cohort succesion

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attitudes change in the adult population

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why did premarital become more okay

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major decline in people going to church
more time spent with peers
less time with parents
dramatic change in age segregation

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Measures of Sexual Behavior

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Kinsey- outlets (6)
Ehrmann - stages
Masters and Johnson - orgasm

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Udry - transition to nonvirginity

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1. motivation - biological and social
2. available partner
3. social controls - parents and peers

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Sternberg

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love stories

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3 components of love stories

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characters
plot
theme - meaning of plot

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sources of love stories

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culture
folk tales - Walt Disney
music/opera
books - romance novels
films
families

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Take me away love story

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c: rescuer and rescuee
p: hurdles
t: love transforms life

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true love conquers all love story

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mismatched lovers
social pressures
true love prevails

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fatal attraction

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temptor and temptee
stolen moments
anguish: can't be together

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consequences of love stories

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determine who we look for
how we behave/relationship patterns
patterns are result of your own behavior
how we interpret other's behavior
how we evaluate relationships

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self fulfilling policy

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predict something, act like its going to happen, it will happen

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gender role socialization

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boys - more aggresive, more physically active

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masturbation, more likely

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boys

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signal events of puberty

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men - arousal followed by ejaculation
women - first menstruation

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Martin - interviews

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with teens - asked about experience with puberty

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how women felt about puberty (Martin's results)

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ambivalence
don't understand it
very little knowledge about organs

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how men felt about puberty (Martin's results)

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very positive, everything in control
relationships - sex

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Hatfield

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study with college couples and newlyweds - surveys

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sexual orientation - Kinsey's measure

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continuum
chart 0-6, ask who they've had sex with

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problem with clinical studies on gays

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lack of control group

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Masters and Johnson therapy to change orientation problem

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client's motivation, never defined failure

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biological theory of orientation

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genetic factors
prenatal factors - extreme stress

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psychological theories of orientation

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freud - at age 4 or 5 some fail to shift
some are determined by how parents treat kids

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interactionist theories of orientation

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exotic becomes erotic

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gender identity disorder

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when it starts interfering with your life - becomes troubling

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how to transgender

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go to therapy
take hormones
make sure you're comfortable with being referred to as opposite
get surgery

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intersex

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person who's biological characteristics are not consistent

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whats in intersex child's best interest

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early gender assignment?
early surgery?
full disclosure?

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new intersex paradigm

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anatomy less important than culture
gender assignment can be fluid
decisions made by a team

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reasons for intersex surgery

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provides relief to parents
atypical genitals provoke teasing
infants heal more quickly

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concerns of intersex surgery

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hard to predict if it'll cause problems
impair sexual functioning
may interfere with later life

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birth cohort effect

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whats going on when you were born
ex. gay marriage

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kinsey - what makes divorce vs stable

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look at marital satisfaction

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Blumstein and Schwartz

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studied couples
volunteer samples

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influences on marital sexual behavior

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sexual development
lifestyle - babies, priorities
marital satisfaction
religion