Psychology 2075 Lecture 1: Unit 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

What are some of the things that have influenced the way you think, feel, and behave regarding sex and sexuality: there are many different perspectives from which sex is studied, and different disciplines study different aspects of sexuality. If you think about it, most departments at western could offer their own course on sex: psychology of sex, history of sex, economics of sex, geography of sex, and so on. In fact, only about 2% of sexual scenes on television portray any sexual precautions, though this number is increasing. In recent years, canadian news and documentary television have become far more explicit in their presentation of sexual issues: entertainment shows have also gotten more explicit in their presentation of sex (e. g. , sex and the city, impactful types of media that has ever existed, an assertion that predates the scientific study of media influence by many centuries: although (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:373)porary (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s a(cid:271)out por(cid:374)ography"s pote(cid:374)(cid:272)y a(cid:271)ou(cid:374)d (see p. fagan, j manning, g. dines, r.