PSY 3122 Study Guide - Ethnocentrism
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Lo2: religion is a powerful influence on the sexual attitudes and behaviours of many individuals, moral code for each religion is unique; each have different views of what is right and wrong in terms of sexual behaviour/expression, ancient greeks openly acknowledged both heterosexuality and homosexuality in their society, explained the existence of both in a myth: original humans were double males, some double females, some half and half, gods fearing these creatures split them in half and they spent forever looking for their other half. Lo3: scientific study of sex began in 19th century, dutch microscopist anton van leeuwenhoek discovered sperm swimming in human semen, henry havelock ellis; forerunner of modern sex research, he believed men and women equal sexual creatures and that sexual deviations from the norm were often harmless, richard von krafft ebing; coined concepts of sadism, masochism, and pedophilia; heterosexuality and homosexuality.
