PSY354H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Giacomo Casanova, Magnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis
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Chapter 1 | sexuality: pathways to understanding behaviour. Sex research has developed from converging strands sexuality: the feelings, behaviours, and identities associated with sex. The greek philosopher aristotle (384 bce 322 bce) made observation of the natural world into one of the main pillars of human understanding. In the area of sex, he distinguished two fundamentally different methods by which organisms reproduce themselves: sexual and asexual. Without a microscope, aristotle could not determine whether the father, the mother, or both parents contributed to the formation of a fetus. He guessed incorrectly that only the father did so, while the (cid:373)othe(cid:396)"s (cid:396)ole (cid:449)as (cid:373)e(cid:396)el(cid:455) to sustai(cid:374) the fetus"s g(cid:396)o(cid:449)th. sexism: prejudice or discrimination directed against one sex, usually women. Working in the aristotelian tradition, anatomists from antiquity through the renaissance described the external and internal reproductive organs. Here again, though, a male perspective hampered progress.