Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Studies, Unintended Pregnancy, Gonorrhea

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Has been much sex education throughout the past, but the authority has been religion. Mostly anti-pleasure, scared of reproduction, (cid:498)anyone who touches a menstruating women is unclean(cid:499), (cid:523)(cid:883)9(cid:883)4(cid:524) from (cid:498)ten sex talks for girls(cid:499) for girls: masturbation if indulged in to excess will cause a grave over all, in this case, ignorance is better than knowledge. Bot scouts handbook (1911) merging of religion and science (cid:498)any habit that causes a boy to lose habits(cid:499) Sex education fights venereal disease: social hygiene movement world war i. Was always the womans fault (cid:498)victory not vd(cid:499), (cid:498)booby trap syphilis and gonorrhea(cid:499) Not until 2013 that the name was termed: american sexual health association which now helps to fight. Impetus for sex education in the schools in the (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:882)"s: Bad that up until only (cid:884) years ago these services didn"t want to identify as (cid:498)sexual health(cid:499) Big problem was troops going abroad, sleeping with sex workers, and coming back with venereal disease.