Psychology 2035A/B Chapter : Ch 13 for Psy Aspects of Life Skills

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Sexual identity: the complex of personal qualities, self-perceptions, attitudes, values, and preferences that guide one"s sexual behaviour. How we see ourself physically, affects how we feel about ourself in the sexual domain. Positive body image is correlated with greater sexual activity, higher sexual satisfaction and fewer sexual problems: sexual values and ethics. All cultures impose constraints on how we are expected to behave sexually. Double standard where males should engage in sexual experimentation while females should not . Individuals are faced with task of sorting through these msgs to their own sexual values and ethics. Includes attitudes about self-stimulation, oral sex, intercourse and other sexual activities. Androgens- produced by testes, principal class of male sex hormones. Both classes of hormones are present in both genders but in different proportions. Differentiation in genitals depend on level of testosterone produced, high in males, low in females. At puberty hormones reassert their influence on sexual development.