CPSY 428 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Estrous Cycle, Double Standard, Anticholinergic
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Marriage is society"s sanctioned arrangement for sexual relations. Happy, satisfying sex life-characteristic of the healthy family. Sex: one of the foundations of most human, intimate relationships. Sex is the basis of the family-procreation-and the survival of the species. It is our mental and emotional processes, how we feel about what we are doing sexually that rare the largest determinants of overall sexual satisfaction. Sex can serve to bond a couple even closer together in an intimate relationship. Intimate: implies a sexual relationship and also a close emotional relationship. Human beings regulate sex precisely because their biology has granted them sexual freedom of choice, and sexual behavior can occur at any time. Among animals, sexual behavior occurs only periodically depending on the estrus cycle of the female in mammals below primates. The larger the brain cortex, the higher the species and the more control the animal has over its own responses.
