HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Casual Sex, Environmental Factor, Pregnancy Rate
15 Jan 2016
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Is a central aspect of being human and encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction. Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. 1: human sexuality may reveal human nature, reliable and valid ways to measure arousal (in some ways it is easy to study, good ways to measure and study including penile and vaginal plethysmographs) Important social/health concerns (increasingly recognizing this, started in 90s with aids outbreak) Teen pregnancy rate and world population growth (contraceptive issues) Examples of sex research: gender and sexuality, similarities and differences between gender roles, although there is lots of variability i. Arousal; men: more interest in casual sex, more partners, more masturbation, more visual: why these differences? iii. Women: capacity for multiple orgasms, more romantic, aroused my "context" or mood, flexible/fluid sexuality.
