FRHD 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Casual Sex, Sexual Dysfunction, Syphilis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Love theories and research: passionate love, theories of love, evolutionary, wheel theory, ter(cid:374)(cid:271)erg"s tria(cid:374)gle, cyclical relationships. According to the text, major developmental task related to sexuality during early childhood (ages 2-5) is: The ability to identify male and female. Focus of research tends to be on childhood sexual abuse rather than positive sexual development: very little room to look at sexual development in children outside of abuse. Cannot ascribe adult sexual meaning to childhood behaviour: 2 (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) tou(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g ea(cid:272)h other"s ge(cid:374)itals does (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e the sa(cid:373)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)otatio(cid:374) as. Children not aware of sexual nature of their activity- they are exploring: curiosity, wondering about themselves not the same context as adults, kids are not aware of the sexual activity, it is something that is learned. Touching self as soothing, tension relief, not orgasm based: something that feels good but used for variety of different reasons.