PSY354H5 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 – PSY354.docx
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An introduction to the scientific study of sexuality. Understanding function and structure of your anatomy, and those of your partner(s) How sexual is linked to your brain and your body. Sex use to mean only whether a person a male or female. Staring from the 18th century sex starts to describe genitals, anatomy and function but was not popularly used until the 19th century. In the 20th century we started to use other words to accompany this (sex-crazed, sexiness, made. There was a movement because it did not cover what the person was we created the word gender. Gender collection of cognitive, behavioral, and personality traits that differ between the two different types of sexes. There is a spectrum of how a person may identify themselves. Sexuality a term that embraces all the topics that could be covered in this course. Not all dimension of sexuality are always experienced or expressed. They may last a few minutes or several decades.
