PSY354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Fornication, Anatomy Act 1832
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One of the 5 f"s: fornication. Meaning of sex took broader meaning- so inclusive of gender anatomy. Act of sex is actually copulation or fornication. Term to distinguish persons sense of identification from their biological sex/anatomical based gender: cognitive, behavioral, personality. Gender encompasses more than anatomy of a person: gender=/= sex. There is fluidity in how individuals identifies this. Trans- they feel gender is different from their sex. Dichotomy between male and female, and cis and trans are societal norms. There are cultural variations in perspectives of genders of people- in some culture 3rd or even 4th gender exists. So plato believed that a females womb travelled around body- galen termed it as hysteria- wandering womb. Anytime women were feeling worried and anxious. They thought that loud sounds would fix the womb. They thought it was due to lack of sex / stimulation. Www. theotapes. com: hysteria became the most freq prescribed in late19th century.
