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Sexual Behaviors
Test 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
11/08/2009

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Majority of paraphilia's are
Definition
men
Term
Theories of paraphilia origin
Definition

excessive testosterone

born with it

 

Term
Fetishism
Definition
  • an object or body part is needed for sexual pleasure
  • object or body part is primary focus of sexual activity
  • mostly men
  • either secretive or open
Term
Transvestism
Definition
  • dressing like opposite sex gives sexual arousal
  • hetero men
  • don't want to change real sex
  • 1/2 are married
  • most wives know and accept
Term
Sadism
Definition
derives sexual pleasure from physically hurting/humiliating someone
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Masochism
Definition
enjoys being hurt
Term
Marquis de Sade
Definition
tortured individuals, most of his life spent in prision and mental asylums, wrote sexual torture novels
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Leopold Sacher-Masoch
Definition
wrote novels about this activity
Term
BDSM
Definition
nondage, discipline, sadism, machohism
Term

Type 1:

Not so dangerous

Definition
gender role, "drama" played out- involves costumes, scripts, code words
Term

Type 2:

Dangerous

Definition
like to be hurt and enjoy it
Term
Exhibitionists
Definition
  • expose themselves
  • indecent exposure
Term
Voyeurs
Definition
  • like watching people naked
  • charged with trespassing
Term
Scatophilia
Definition
deriving pleasure from making obscene phone calls to non consenting partners
Term
Pedophilia
Definition
post pubescent individuals considered as adults and are ready for marriage, sex and reproduction
Term
Adult child sex impact variables:
Definition
  • age of child, age of adult
  • relation to child
  • physical force
  • physical pain to child
  • resiliency factors
Term
Pedophiles
Definition
  • vary in degree of behavior
  • most common is fondling and exhibitionism
Term
Rich, Tromovitch, and Bauserman
Definition

published mentanalysis based on 59 studies

findings: most said didn't have an effect on them

most people didn't like authors

Term
Frotteurism
Definition
man rubs genitals against women in crowded places
Term
Zoophilia
Definition

having sex with animals

more men than women

Term
Intantalism
Definition
individuals like to be dressed and treated like a baby
Term
Klismaphilia
Definition
like to be given enemas
Term
Necrophiliacs
Definition

like to have sex with dead people

-will work at a morgue

Term
Homicidal Necrophiliacs
Definition
kill people to have sex ith the dead bodies
Term
Sexual addiction
Definition

-debatable

-prior to sexual revolution of '60s, masturbation, oral sex, and sex outside marriage= perversion

Term
How natural is same sex activity
Definition

-non-human primates

-natural behavior is not always good

-humans incarcerated

-young children/adolescents= sexual exploration

Term
Aggression and prejudice against gays
Definition

-up to 1700, same sex activity led to death penalty

-50 states declared homo illegal up till 1961

-currently 30 states prohibit gay marriage

Term
Discrimination
Definition

-couples often denied benefits for partners

-many states don't list sexual orientation

-employment and housing discrimination

Term

Richard Loving

Mildred Jeter Loving

Definition
married and police came into their house trying to find them "in the act" and took them to jail because they weren't married in that state but were sleeping in the same bed together
Term
Pearl Index
Definition
number of pregnancies for every 100 women per year of use of selected contraceptive method
Term
Barrier methods
Definition

-easy to get w/o perscription

-often not used correctly

-most reduce transmission of STI's

Term
Majority of females can get prego at age
Definition
12-14
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