HPRO 4412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Joycelyn Elders, Victorian Era, Cauterization
23 May 2018
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HPRO 4412 Human Sexuality
Lecture 1 Sept 11
Introduction to Human Sexuality
- History of sex
- Ancient
▪ Kama Sutra, write in the 2nd century of BCE in India
▪ Chinese handbooks describing various sex positions
- Middle Ages
▪ Sex for procreation, not for pleasure
▪ St Augustine: “moral people” should engage in sex only to reproduce
▪ regular, but not excessive amount of intercourse as beneficial to the health
- Sex is always a concern of religion, one shape or from
- Masturbation
- Ancient Greeks and Egyptians viewed masturbation as healthy and normal
- In the 1600s masturbation was a crime
▪ Punishable by death
- 20th century, physicians began to challenge the ideas of masturbation
- very gendered practice, what is taught to girls vs boys
- Victorian Era – shock treatment, cauterization, straitjackets
- Women forbidden from riding bicycles and horses
- Vibrators advertised in the early 1900s (as a massage device) disguised, actually for
sexual pleasure
▪ Originally from treatment of hysteria in the Victorian Era – have women have
orgasms to treat hysteria
- Is masturbation still an issue?
- 1994 – Jocelyn Elders said that masturbation was safe and healthy, she was forced to
resign
- Human’s not the only species that masturbates
▪ Females porcupines have been seen to use sticks as vibrators
- Sex and Advertising
- Always interested in presenting sex – “sex sells”
- Openness to sex in media
- Sex and Media
- Shapes what we think is normal, what we should desire
- Media
- Cultivation theory: meaningful representation of interaction in everyday life
▪ Sitcoms, movies, the way people date…
▪ Especially with young kids
▪ Seeing the messages repeatedly
- Agenda Setting: emphasizing certain types of stories and excluding other
▪ What we should pay attention to
- Social learning: interaction viewed on television viewed on tv as a model for who we
should be and how we should interact
- Religion and Sexuality
- Pandora’s box – original sin
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Document Summary
Ancient: kama sutra, write in the 2nd century of bce in india, chinese handbooks describing various sex positions. Middle ages: sex for procreation, not for pleasure, st augustine: moral people should engage in sex only to reproduce regular, but not excessive amount of intercourse as beneficial to the health. Sex is always a concern of religion, one shape or from. Ancient greeks and egyptians viewed masturbation as healthy and normal. In the 1600s masturbation was a crime: punishable by death. 20th century, physicians began to challenge the ideas of masturbation. Very gendered practice, what is taught to girls vs boys. Victorian era shock treatment, cauterization, straitjackets. Women forbidden from riding bicycles and horses. Vibrators advertised in the early 1900s (as a massage device) disguised, actually for sexual pleasure: originally from treatment of hysteria in the victorian era have women have orgasms to treat hysteria. 1994 jocelyn elders said that masturbation was safe and healthy, she was forced to resign.
