PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture 3: Erotic Plasticity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3AC3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Gender differences in the expression of sexuality. Women changed their attitude after: the freedom they got, the introduction of the birth control, the shift in western culture, more comfortable with talking about and engaging in sex. Before and after the sexual revolution men changed a little bit but women changed a lot in terms of their sexuality: changes in sex drive, changes in sexuality, changes in sexual orientation. H(cid:455)pothesis: (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) is (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:373)allea(cid:271)le tha(cid:374) is (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s. It bends and adapts more to exterior factors: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge thei(cid:396) se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)akes it diffi(cid:272)ult to stud(cid:455) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455); making them the different ones, me(cid:374)(cid:859)s se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) is (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:396)igid (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:396)ed to (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) 3 predictions: more intraindividual variation (within person changes) in sexuality for women than for men. Sexual interests: larger response to specific sociocultural factors by women than by men, lower attitude-behaviour consistency for women than for men. Difficult to predict their behaviour from their attitude.