01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Simon Levay, The Main Point, Abnormal Psychology
20 Dec 2018
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Brain is the most important sex organ keeps person in control . Two big topics when talking of sex in abnormal psychology: normal people having trouble with sex (impotence, performance problems, etc. , sexual paraphilias (weird sexual behavior) Most mammals have sex in the same ways we do. If you don"t have sex, species will die. If it didn"t feel really good, people wouldn"t do it (and a species will go extinct) Many animals have sex by force (the males are bigger) Reasons why humans have this courtship behavior (attachment) is because the human fetus comes out very underdeveloped so they need parents that will stick with these babies for the baby to develop properly. We will stick around with the person we made the baby with. Sperm has access to eggs during ovulation. The main point of sex is to have a child. Some standards of sexual behavior are universal; others variable (some behaviors are accepted i. e. homosexuality)
