HDF 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Orgasm
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Love, intimacy & sexuality: how we think (guilt/enjoyment) about our sexual feelings, thoughts, and actions is influenced by 3 levels. Culture: how people learn to behave (cid:498)appropriately(cid:499, guidelines for conduct. Interpersonal: what we think we (cid:498)should(cid:499) do & how the other (cid:498)should(cid:499) act, how to carry out sexual wishes with regard to anticipated responses. Intrapsychic: what a person has learned to mean or understand as being sexual, what the person finds to to be arousing, love. Love an individualistic norm (not a social one); to legitimize sexual relations outside of marriage (cid:498)make love(cid:499), (cid:498)lovers(cid:499), being (cid:498)intimate(cid:499) Other times, value sex as an end in itself: sex is how two people use their bodies for touch, pleasure, fun and play. for affirmation mutual acceptance. for cohesion, closeness, intimacy. for consolation & support. Cognitive sex skills (e. g. , expectations, (cid:498)purposes(cid:499), arousal styles) Erotic touch manual, oral, rubbing- erotic stimulation to orgasm.