AMCULT 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Libido, Apomorphine, Masturbation
23 Feb 2017
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Instead of categorizing people by how they behave, they started looking at how they self identify. Inversion: the masculine soul, heaving in the female bosom . Person in a female body that is attracted to other females. Received death threats, had his authority questioned. Ideology of same sex attraction was social instead of biological. Can plot yourself based on how attracted you are to genders. 0 is strictly heterosexual and 6 is strictly homosexual. Medical professionals led pathologization of same sex attraction. Called homosexuality sexual inversion, caused congenital pathology in nervous system. Freud: humans are innately bisexual and then develop homo/hetero. Show heterosexual porn and make them masturbate to it. Gives hormones to lower sex drive and can make you infertile. Nothing to be ashamed off, no vice. Is a variation of the sexual function. Since it could be diagnosed, people were treated. Electrical aversion therapy- when certain images came up triggering same sex attraction, the person would be shocked.
