HLWL 1109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Hygiene Movement, Sexual Arousal, Queer Theory
5 Oct 2016
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Sex drive is a very important life force. Behavior modification: tool to change unwanted behavior: aversion therapy. Bandura (1969: basis in operant conditioning, external and internal events. Identification and imitation of same-sex parent in development of our gender identity. Individual differences in processing information: behavior is a result of our perceptions and conceptualizations of our environment, largest sex organ the brain, we are sexually aroused by what we think is sexually arousing. Sexual problems due to physiological causes; interventions include medications or surgery. Primary goal is to pass on one"s genes: consider mate preferences from an evolutionary perspective. Sexology is dominated by white, middle-class, male sexuality. Sexuality used by men to maintain power over women. Physicians were the primary sexuality researchers in the late 19th century. Moved to the united states in 1920s, encouraged by the social hygiene movement: limited funding for research, late 1980s, early 1990s saw an increase in sexuality research.
