HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Casual Sex, Teenage Pregnancy, Sexual Orientation
16 Apr 2017
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Human sexuality: in a central aspect of being human and encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Sexual health: a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction, or infirmity. Reliable and valid ways to measure arousal: penile and vaginal plethysmographs. Recall that sex is important to health even in the absence of problems and disease. So, the study of romantic relationships, sex orientation, sex over lifespan, etc. is important to health regardless of problems. Lots of similarity often aroused by similar things giving pleasure. Men more interest in casual sex; more partners; more masturbation; more visual . Women capacity for multiple orgasms; more romantic; aroused by context / flexible / 248 undergrads were brought in to do a sex survey. Some were told the experimenter was going to view the answers given.
