ANT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Preoptic Area, Barbie, Olfactory Tubercle
11 Dec 2016
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Breasts uncovered: evoke strongly established attention we have towards eyes: cultural releasers, lipstick sign, women proportions of body -- barbie doll. Highly idealized body shapes of mainstream culture: thinness was not always ideal beauty: 1600"s very opp: amphibian sexual physiology, gaba: inhibitory of cortisol, vertebrate sexual interx, male /female influence female/male brain, could look at level of testosterone in male: Lights up in pleasure: medial preoptic area, feeding, orgasm: a kind of seizure. Females attack males: androgen over the life course, lots of diff b/w m and f. Sex diff in promiscuity: adults (cid:449)ith 5 or (cid:373)ore se(cid:454) part(cid:374)ers (cid:1006)(cid:1005) or (cid:373)ore, males arent hetero (some male, men having sex with younger women. Small # of women can affect large number of men (sex professionals) Missing box: masturbation: males: nearly all have done as age increases, females: only upto 60% as age increases, 1990"s:
