HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Casual Sex, Orgasm, Birth Order
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Encompasses sex, gender identities, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction. State of physical, emotional, mental, and social well being related to sexuality. Is not the absence of disease and ability to function. Everything revolves around sex (tv, books, etc: reliable and valid ways to measure arousal. Scary aids started in 90s and kick started sex interest. Sex is important in health even in the absence of problems and disease. Examples of sexual research: gender and sexuality. Men, more interested in casual sex, more partners, more masturbation. Women, capacity for multiple orgasms, more romantic, more aroused by context (general mood) Some were told the experimenter will view answers in front of person. Some were told they would be connected to a lie detector (nonfunctioning) , when taking survey. Womens data went up consistently, mens stayed about the same. Conclusion: gender differences in sexuality are distorted: canadian sex survey. Canadian youth, sexual health and hiv aids study.