PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Libido, Orgasm, Masturbation
13 Apr 2016
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Measuring sex drive: beware confounds with related concepts your actual intrinsic desire for sex. Having sex with your partner to please them because they want to have sex is completely different than when you want to have sex. Someone may have a large sex drive, but have no one to have sex with. When measuring sex drive, its best to take away partners - trying to talk about the person, not the people they"re having sex with: kinsey"s behavioural measures, kinsey"s behavioural measure, sex measurement: orgasm count. Total sexual outlet the amount of orgasms you have (orgasm count/ unit of time) Where orgasm (regardless of reason and source) Men have a higher sex drive than women. Unconfounded sd: doesn"t matter who its with, or if its alone, with a partner, stranger, etc. Problem because kinsey was a man men orgasm more than women. Men"s tso is much higher than women"s.
