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PSYC 436 Lecture Notes - Human Sexual Response Cycle, Safe Sex, Sexology

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McGill University
Department
Psychology
Course
PSYC 436
Professor
Irving Binik

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If inc sex from once a month to once a week is like making an extra. 50,000 a year in the happiness equation: something about sex is related to well being we don"t know if it"s physically or psychologically or whatever. If understand behavior that transmits disease better than have better handle prevention: do this by surveys but do people tell truth, in most populations the spread is still going up hasn"t been controlled in any way. We don"t really know why but there are models that try and explain this: Information, motivation, behavioral model: it"s really a general health model than can be applired to this. Info: 1) doesn"t predict anything because now everyone knows what predicts the spread of aids. E. g. everyone knows that smoking is bad but the info has little effect: fisher says it"s the related info that is what counts. E. g. monogamous relationships are safe, it"s too late anyways i"ve had unprotected sex.

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