PSY 4122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sex Therapy, Cardiovascular Disease, Intentionality
12 Mar 2018
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Keep exploring and revel in familiarity: 3 categories: sexual minorities, old people, sex therapists, sex w/ familiar person is better! Great sex takes a lot of time, devotion, and intentionality: se(cid:454) like this does(cid:374)"t just happen! Great sex takes intentionality: create sex environments, does(cid:374)"t just happe(cid:374) spo(cid:374)ta(cid:374)eousl(cid:455) Experience and maturity: need a lot of emotional maturity. Intimacy and monogamy: most couples were mutually not monogamous. Illness changes their perception of life (changing outlook led to positive changes with sex) (dis)ability & imagination (psychological problems: having a closed mind or lack of imagination can really inhibit one for having optimal sex. 3rd study (blind to all types of participants): group differences in optimal sexual experiences. Absence of male & female differences: genderless, peerness sex. same for both. Conclusion revisioning sexuality: being sexually functional is neither necessary, nor sufficient for great sex. Grow beyond conventional sex scripts (forget natural and spontaneous)
