FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Heterosexism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Robin Milhausen

Document Summary

Sex as leisure: sex is considered leisure when it is voluntary, not seen as work, and serves some personal need, provides sexual pleasure, can be a component to personality development as we discover which sexual activities are enjoyable and with whom, sexuality is important to identity (gay, lesbian, transgender, etc, meaney & rye learning your sexual likes and dislikes can lead to sexual self actualization, a state in which a person is comfortable with his or her sexuality. The study of human sexuality: sexual behaviour reflects our biological capabilities, psychological characteristics, and social and cultural influences, biology physiological mechanism of arousal and response, medicine sti"s and biological bases of sexual dysfunction, psychologists sexual behaviours are shaped by perception, learning, thought, etc. , sociologists sociocultural contexts of sexual behaviour, anthropologists cross cultural similarities and differences, scientists the parallels between sexual behaviours of humans and animals.