HSCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ovulation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 120
• Professor: Kate Salters

Document Summary

Lecture 5 sexual relationships, behaviors, thoughts and feelings. Deaths during pregnancy and childbirth in canada are attributed to: circulatory issues, diseases of nervous system, hypertension, postpartum hemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy egg implants into the fallopian tubes, else where than the uterus, unsafe abortions. 308 students enrolled in california state university anonymous survey: men likely to fantasize about someone they would like to have sex with (women fantasize about someone they have had sex with, 12% of men and 43% of women report they never switch partners during the course of a single sexual fantasy, women 2. 5 times more likely than men to report focusing on their own physical or emotional responses during sexual fantasy, both males and females reported that positive feelings accompany sexual arousal and fantasy. Men: more active roles, focusing on partners" bodies and what they want to do with them, more explicit sexual acts, more likely to involve multiple partners or group sex, more likely to involve dominance.