SOC 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Orgasm, Penis Envy
4/11/18
●Babies explore touching their bodies
○A natural act for babies
Touch to the genitals: a biologically wired-in pleasure (“primary reinforcer”)
●Leading to repeated genital touching
●Multiple repetitions lead to increased skill & chances of orgasm
●Accidental leading to increased skill
●Raggedy Anne doll story
●Punishment for M comes from various sources
○Parents
○Myths of punishment: hand grows on palm of hair, put dot of iodine on child’s
stomach to show the “consequences”, doctors joining in (1900) saying you will
lose sight
●New view: Old 1800s mental hospitals
●Today, M (masturbation) is seen and natural and normal
●M= natural, commonplace, and usually healthy (similar to eating)
●M to internet sex many hrs a day is becoming increasingly normal
●M is bad only if
○1- done in such excess that a person ceases interacting with others, & ceases
learning normal skills
○2- M done repeatedly w fantasies of inappropriate sex (ie: sex w kids, rape) →
deviant turn-ons
○3- person has a welling sexual partner who masturbates instead
●Taboos against M are weakening
●Never M
○Age 18-24
■F, M
○1994: 64%, 41%
○2010: 34%, 14%
●M last month?
■F, M
○18-19: 26%, 61%
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