PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Human Sexual Response Cycle, Monogamy, Ap Psychology
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The stimuli inside our heads our imagination can influence sexual arousal and desire. People who, because of a spinal- cord injury, have no genital sensation can still feel sexual desire: adolescence sexuality, teen pregnancy, minimal communication about birth control many teenagers are uncomfortable discussing contraception with their parents, partners, and peers. Teens who talk freely with parents and are in an exclusive relationship with a partner with whom they communicate openly are more likely to use contraceptives: guilt related to sexual activity. In another survey, 72 percent of sexually active 12- to 17-year-old american girls said they regretted having had sex (reuters, 2000). By depressing the brain centers that control judgment, inhibition, and self-awareness, alcohol disarms normal restraints, a phenomenon well known to sexually coercive males: mass media norms of unprotected promiscuity media help write the. U. s. girls from age 5 to 18, a father"s absence was linked to sexual activity before age 16 and to teen pregnancy.
