FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Sexual Dysfunction
29 Oct 2016
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Refers to whether we"re anatomically male or female or somewhere in between. Referring to physical activities involving our sex organs for purposes of reproduction or pleasure, as in having sex . Also relates to erotic feelings, experiences, or desires; arousing sexual feelings or desires such as sexual fantasies and thoughts, sexual urges, and feelings of sexual attraction. Many researchers reserve the word sex for anatomical or biological categories preferring the word gender, the behavioural, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex. The study of sexuality in cultures that are distant from our own enables us to better understand ourselves and the ways in which our own culture shapes our sexuality. There are various meanings of the word sex . Gender roles complex clusters of the ways males and females are expected to behave within a given culture. The term human sexuality refers to the ways we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.
