[PSYC 3533] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (30 pages long)

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3533
• Professor: adambrown

Document Summary

Sex: can refer to the act of sexual intercourse; 2) refers to the fact of anatomically being male or female. Gender: the state of being male or female; not biology. Sexual behaviour: behaviour that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm. Influences on sexuality: religion, science, the media. Religion can be considered a source of values and ethics regarding sexuality. Provided most of the info that people had about sexuality: until about 100 years ago. Every religion is different and has different views regarding sexuality. Ex. , greeks used mythology to explain sexual phenomena: used to acknowledge and accept both heterosexuality and same-sex sexuality, christianity has a wide variety of beliefs about sexuality. Asceticism and celibacy brings a closeness to god. Some christian religions are more liberal in interpretation. Lead to vies of sex as shameful and unclean. Islam tends to view sexuality as much less repressive when compared to christianity.