PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dating Abuse, Marital Rape, Polyamory
22 Jan 2017
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95% of college men and women said yes to both being dumped by someone they loved and dumping someone that loved them. Vpa is part of brain"s reward system. Craving/award system becomes more active with something that you can"t have. When you"ve been rejected in love, you feel deeply attached to this individual and intense motivation and willingness to risk it all. A term used to describe the social principle that men are allowed more sexual freedom than women. If young men engage in sexuality it"s natural ; with women, it"s promiscuous . Can be related to different cultures and religions. Sex-for-fun standard became more acceptable for women during the sexual revolution in 1960s north america. The new availability of the birth control pill was a signi cant turning point in women"s choice and control over their sexuality. Attitudes towards premarital sexual activity continued to become more permissive until 1980s, since then it"s stayed at same level.
