PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Homosexual Transsexual (Term), Erotic Asphyxiation, Transvestic Fetishism

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Chapter 13 sexual variants, abuse, and dysfunctions. This idea appear in some psychiatry textbooks as late as the 1940s. Men"s greater emphasis on their partner"s attractiveness is cross-culturally universal. People typically behave as though the sexual standards of their time and place are obviously correct. Ideas about sexually acceptable behaviour change over time. Degeneracy theory central belief that semen is necessary for physical and sexual vigor in men and for masculine characteristics such as beard growth. Asserted that 2 practices were especially harmful masturbation and patronizing prostitutes. Abstinence theory no sex (including masturbation) before marriage. Punishment was sewing foreskin with a wire and circumcision without anesthesia (males), and burning the clitoris with acid (females) Many people believed that masturbation caused insanity (because of an anonymous publication in a book in the early 18thc in london) Between 10-20% of melanesian societies practice a form of homosexuality within the context of male initiation rituals that all male members of society must experience.

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