Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pedophilia, Negative And Positive Rights, Extramarital Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

The topic of sexuality is diverse, complex and fascinating. Why study sex: curiosity motivates us to study sex, we have practical reasons for wanting to learn about it, hope that learning more about sex will help us with our concerns about our sexual functioning. The study of sexuality is not confined to one discipline but rather is multidisciplinary. In some cases, sex refers to being male or female and sometimes it refers to sexual behavior or reproduction. The term sex will be used in this book in context referring to sexual anatomy and sexual behavior and the term gender will be used to refer to the state of being male or female. Alfred kinsey defined sex as behavior that leads to orgasm. Only about one quarter of participants thought that oral sex resulting in orgasm would be defined as sex. Sexual behavior: behavior that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm.