Transcript Chapter 6 Sexual Arousal and Response

Chapter 1
Perspectives on Sexuality
Sexual Intelligence
• Four components of sexual intelligence, which help us
make responsible decision about our sexual behavior
based on our personal values:
– Self-understanding
– Interpersonal sexual skills
– Scientific knowledge
• Biological sexual orientation, what happens during arousal,
how to enhance pleasure
– Consideration of the cultural context of sexuality
• Pro-life, pro choice
Studying Sexuality:
A Psychosocial Orientation
• A Psychosocial Orientation takes into account
– Psychological factors
– Social conditioning factors (taboos, norms, roles)
– Biological factors
How Important is Sex in Your Life?
Global Perspectives
Cross-Cultural Perspectives:
Islamic Middle East
• Based on beliefs of Muhammad
• Sex enjoyed by both sexes
• Women inherently more sexual than men; this
power contained by veils, segregation, female
circumcision
• Oppression of women and many sexually
related restrictions stem from patriarchal cultural
traditions and fundamentalist sects, not from
religion and the teaching of the Qur’an.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives: China
• Ancient history promoted sexual activity but with
Confucianism came stricter sexual attitudes.
• Sexual conservatism with communist rule (1949)
– Lack of basic information about sexuality
– Sex outside of marriage and frequent sex
within marriage discouraged
– Almost no STDS
• Current trends: increasing rates of pre-marital
sex; increasing STDs; slightly more open to
homosexuality; still lack of sexual knowledge
and safe-sex skills.
Our Cultural Legacy
• Sex for Procreation
–Penile-vaginal intercourse
• Male and Female Gender Roles
Sexuality in the Western World:
Judeo-Christian Perspective
• Ancient Hebrews
– Rigid gender roles but sex as profound
experience
• Christianity
– Spirituality through celibacy; sex as sinful
– Contradictory images of women emerged
• Virgin Mary: compassionate, pure, &
unattainable
• Eve: temptress
Sex-Positive Shift
• Protestant Reformation
– Enlightenment; scientific rationalism
– Temporary increase in respect for women
– Value of sex in marriage, functions beyond
procreation
Sexual Attitudes and the Victorian Era
• Women’s role constrained; women as asexual
• Emotional & physical distance between husband
and wife
• Prostitution flourished
• Continued polarized view of women as Madonna
or whore
• Mosher’s research contradicts prevailing view:
finding Victorian women to experience sexual
desire, enjoying intercourse, and experiencing
orgasm
20th Century Sexuality
• Social movements: suffrage movement;
temperance movement; civil rights movement;
lesbian & gay movement
• World War II: Roles were expanded & more
flexible
• Postwar return to stricter roles
• 1960s movement for gender equality
• 1980s and AIDS
The Media and Sexuality
• Television
– News, advice, and educational programs
– Increased access to sexual material
– Cable and music videos
• Advertising
• Magazines
• The Internet and Wireless Technology
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Sexual Taboos and Television