Psychology 2075 Chapter 1: Unit 1 Textbook Notes - Chapter 1 Sexuality in Perspective
2 Dec 2015
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Unit one: chapter one sexuality in perspective. Human sexual beh is a diverse phenomenon, occurs in different [physical locations and social contexts, consists of a wide range of activities and is perceived differently by different people. Topic of sexuality is diverse, complex and fascinating. Exchanging sexual information is sometimes taboo in our culture, so curiosity motivates us to study sex. Experience concerns about our sexual functioning or wish that we could function better. Some cases the word sex is used ambiguously; sometimes refers to sexual beh or preproduction or in some cases refers to male or female. Meaning is usually clear from the context. To reduce ambiguity, term sex wo;; be used in contexts referring to sexual anatomy and sexual beh and the term gender will be used to refer to the state of being male or female. Sexual beh as any beh that ^ the likelihood of gametic union [union of sperm and egg]
