Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Orgasm, Actaea Racemosa, Ejaculation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Stephen Ferguson

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Chapter 11 sexuality and life cycle: adulthood. 56% ages 20-24 and 21% ages 25-29 were never married: approx. In quebec, cohabitation seen as replacing marriage rather than as stage preceding marriage and as an appropriate relationship w/in which to have and raise children: common law relationships break up more than marriages do, approx. 60% of people who end common law relationships do so before age of. Frequency of intercourse: 2006 census 90% ages 50-69 are or have been legally married, expected that only 73% men and 78% women ages 30-39 will marry, approx. 1/3 of first marriages end in divorce; rate is somewhat higher for remarriages: those who divorce: 70% men and 58% women remarry research in us marital coitus: frequency/week, 1938-1949 (kinsey), 1970 (westoff), 75: women initiated sex regularly (in some couples were usual initiators) and were interested in engaging in sex when partner suggested it, me(cid:374) (cid:374)ot al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ested i(cid:374) sa(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d e(cid:395)uall(cid:455) likel(cid:455) to (cid:396)efuse pa(cid:396)t(cid:374)e(cid:396)"s initiation.