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| discharge of accumulated neuro-muscular tension which results from sexual arousal. It is a high pitch of erotic tension, lasting one fraction of a minute, but is still one of the most intense and profoundly satisying human sensations. |
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| Orgasmic experience varies with |
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| age, physical condition, context (personal attitude, activity, atmosphere). |
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| when orgasm becomes the primary goals of our sexuality, what does it to do sex? |
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| distorts our sex lives, cannot enjoy sex as much. |
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| "stop/start technique", squeeze technique, scrotal ring pull - all these delay ejaculation- further distorting the notion that sex is to be enjoyed and promoting the unfortunate notion that sex is work and the product of work is the orgasm. |
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| Goal Centered sexuality ladder (7) |
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| hug, kiss, caress, touch, oral-genital, coitus, orgasm (goal centered sexuality) |
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| the circle of kiss, touch, caress, coitus, oral-genital, etc. without the orgasm. |
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| the area on the front wall of the vagina that some women say is sensitive to touch. |
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Normal - Mild Preference for object or act
still normal side- strong preference for object or act
paraphilia just developed - object or act necessaru for sexual functioning
paraphilic - object or act is substitute for human contact. |
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| three basic criteria for paraphilia |
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1. behavior is engaged in for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification
2. behavior tends to be compulsive.
3. clear majority of people in a given cultural setting would consider the behavior to be strange, abnormal, deviant. |
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| when a persons sexual arousal and gratification depend almost exclusively on fetishism. |
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| when a person's sexual arousal and gratification depends almost exclusively on inanimate objects/non-genital body parts. |
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| genital exposure. the exhibitonist experiences pleasure from shocking his victims. |
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| a lewd monologue with a stranger |
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| watching others undress or engage in sexual behavior. |
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| inflicting pain on another |
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| refers to achieving sexual arousal primarily by having pain inflicted on oneself. receiving pain. |
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| a person who achieves sexual arousal primarily by dressing as a member of the opposite sex. cross-dressing which produces sexual arousal. |
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| Cross Cultural Comparisons |
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| the way different cultures view what is sexually normal (positions), sexual attractiveness, sexual behaviors & attitudes, cultural differences. |
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| not until the mid-1900s were scientists allowed to research sexual behavior methods. |
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| most responsible for demonstrating the influence of sexuality in human life. said sexual energy or libido was channeled in particular areas of the body at diff ages. he developed psychoanalysis as a means for evaluating and treating unconscious sexual motivations. |
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| used to have frequent nocturnal emissions (wet dreams), which in victorian age was called sprematorrhea.he was told he would be blind, insane then death- he kept a diary until his death however nothing got worse. he published Studies In Psychology of Sex and argued women were not asexual and men and womens orgasms were similar. said masturbation and homosexuality were normal. |
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| used his class on marriage at Indiani University in 1938 and gave questionairres and personal interviews to students as data. found that most people masturbated, engage in oral-genital sex, women could have multiple orgasms, many man had a homosexual experience. this shocked people and he was accused of being anti-family and abnormal. but he changed the way sex was influenced in the 20th century. |
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| based experiments with over 10,000 episodes of of sexual activity with 312 men and 382 women.published in 1966 Human Sexual Response. These findings led to methods of treating sexual problems and opened a sexual therapy clinic in 1965. Book in 1970 Human Sexual Inadequecy helped treat thousands of sexual disorders. |
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| The National Health and Social Life Survey |
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| National Academy of Science's National Research Council in 1989 asked federal agencies to fund new surveys of sexual behavior to help prevent aids. Despite the senate blocking the funding, Edward Laumann, Robert Michael, John Gagnon, and Stuart Michaels recieved 1.7 mill from private foundations. 90 minute interviews - face to face. |
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| study of peoples attitudes, opinions, or behaviors. responses are usually obtained either in face-to-face interview or paper-pencil questionairre. |
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| Complete set of observation about which a researcher wishes to draw conclusions |
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| subset of a population of subjects. |
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| sample in which observations are drawn so that all other possible samples of the same size have an equal chance of being selected. |
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| a sample in which subgroups are randomly selected in the same proportion as they exist in the population. thus the sample is representitive of the target population. |
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| baby boys have erections in womb, erection when umbilical cord is cut and females lubricate within 24 hours after born. An important part of sexual development involves the amount of hugging and cuddling that an infant has with its caregivers. 1 in 3 human infants die from emotional neglect. When infants gain control over movements, they even touch there genitals bc they feel pleasure from it and it soothes them. |
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| body exploration before age 2 is confined to self exploration. sexualized behaviors after two however are them exploring children they play together with as well. their peak is from 3-5 then decreases until puberty. Playing doctor and playing house to explore genitals of the opposite sex. |
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| Initial School age years (7-11) |
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| not as interested in sex and we tend to demand more privacy with undressing, interacting with the opposite sex, etc. when sex games, things are being done the children tend to hide it and do it in private instead of publicly now. |
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| first show of sexual attraction and become capable of reproduction.Between ages 6-8 adrenal glands start to mature.DHEA is converted to testosterone and estrogen. Boys and girls have an increase in androgens (male horomones). In second stage, testicles and ovaries mature, pituitary glands secrete fsh in high dosages, stimulating production of sperm for guys and ova of girls. Secondary sex characteristics begin to develop. |
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| begins earlier. 8 for girls 9 for boys |
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| happens a couple years late in girls and boys. |
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| puberty to adulthood. Most important issue in their life is self-identity. Usually concerned with looking sexually attractive and physically good. |
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| noncoital sexual contact below the waste |
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| erotic physical contact above the waste (kissing, touching breasts). |
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| In boys, the average age of first intercourse is much younger for black kids then asian kids. among girls, hispanic and asians are less likely to have sex than white and black girls. Attitudes about premarital sex are mixed. |
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| Emerging Adulthood (18-25) |
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| at this stage, people are not yet grown up. this stage people want to explore their own identities in love, work, and the worldwide view. 90% of emerging adults are regularly sexually active and most w/ numerous partners. |
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| non relationship sex with non romantic partner usually w/ a friend. |
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| practice of having a series of monogomous sexual relationships |
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| Young Adulthood (26-39): Marriage |
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| Marriage - sex decreases after the first year or two because career advancements, parenthood is less private and more demands, becomming accoustomed to one another. |
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| Young Adulthood (26-39): Living Together |
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| Living Together- test or trial period before marriage, or an alternative to marriage. For most people it will lead to marriage. most people who live together actually end up in an instable marriage and get divorced. |
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| Young Adulthood (26-39): Single Parenthood |
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| some become single parents through divorce, seperation but some are never married. |
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| Young Adulthood (26-39): Extramarital sex - in supposedly monogomous marriages |
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| use of internet, telephone for emotional or sexual affair. |
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| Love changes & relationships change. as time goes on you become more attached. you should not always settle in relationships but select. love needs to be a rational decision - a thought experience. |
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| early stage of relationship where you are stuck in a trance, more lust. |
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| an attachment that comes with time, changes of time because relationships change due to experiences, is not a quantitative but qualitative. |
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| love should not be equal but.... |
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| balance. should be some type of reciprocity that goes on in relationships. |
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| people in love have a flush of energy to do... |
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| anything. as with people in immature love (desperate) are always tired and debilitated . |
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| love is both an expressed.... and an..... |
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| feeling & activity. can't have one without the other. it shows you are important in my life, something special. |
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| Sternberg's triangular theory of love |
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intimacy, passion & commitment.
Linking- intimacy
Romantic Love- passion & intimacy
Infatuation- passion
Fatuous Love- passion & commitment
Empty Love- commitment
Companionate- intimacy & commitment
Consummate Love- intimacy, passion, & commitment. |
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| Styles of Love: Lee's Sex Kinds of Relationships. |
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| -Eros, ludus, storge (philia), pragma, mania, agape |
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loving an ideal person*
attracted to someone we find attractive
attracted to someone who is solely beautiful or handsome. |
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love as a game*
teasing and seductive
anxious about intimacy
worries about abandonment, only goes surface deep.
-once they obtain the prize, they look for something new.
-"its not the conquest i enjoy, its the chase". |
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-friendship - communications, warmth, intimacy
-love as a friendship* |
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-realistic and practical love*
-pragmatic; love should be thoughtful- is this the person thats best for me? |
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possessive, obsessive love*
-"this is my friend harry, hes way more into the relationship than me" |
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- selfless love.
"my lover's needs are more important than my own". |
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| The ABC(DE)'s of romantic relationships |
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| attraction, building, continuation, deterioration, ending. |
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this is so much that i want it exclusive.
i want a lot of energy, interest and time into it. |
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inevitable
we struggle with awakening |
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| danger points of the abcde's of romantic relationships |
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criticism
defensiveness
contempt
putting the person down
arguing is a good thing
withdrawl
w/e, idc, do what you want
turning back on relationship
BAD! |
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composed danger points
"intimacy isnt..."
- you make yourself vulnerable by saying "i love you"
takes a lot of time to love well
learned intimacy
communication is a fundamental way for us to help out our relationships
"talking is the major way we establish, maintain, monitor, and adhjust our relationships. |
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| -Skill #1 - communication |
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partners in mature relationships say what
-"i" statements - statements of how a person is feeling without placing blame for those emotions.
-"you" statements - statements that accuse or place blame on another person. |
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| -skill #2 - avoiding the temptation to "mind-read" |
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| one partner may know what the other one says, but they should not assume they know what their partner means. |
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| -skill #3 - being bi-lingual |
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| learn each other's language of love. |
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| i choose you and will do whatever it takes to work!*** |
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| time, patience, work, awareness. what your partner wants and deserves. |
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| often problems. when a guy watches porn he is thinking about? |
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| how girl isnt like porn, doesn't measure up to the pornstar, not good enough, what he's thinking about during sex, etc. |
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| every emotion is in your backpack |
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| reasons why we choose who we love. not really random. |
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| a group of message encoded in our brains that describes the likes and dislikes we have. (features, sounds, characteristics). |
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| By age ? the pattern for our ideal mate has already begun to float around in our brains. |
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| we fall for and pursue people who fit our |
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| affective and genital dimension of sexuality. |
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affective- touch, tenderness, intimacy, caring, relationship.
genital - physical parts of sex |
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| parents are the primary sex educators of their children |
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"askable" parents
"teachable" moments.
its not a good idea to tell your parents EVERYTHING. akward, ruins relationships. |
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| a fixed, over-simplified and often distorted idea about a group of people. |
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| are stereotypes in that they evoke fixed conventional expectations of men and women. ex)women as housewives. |
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| parents tend to reinforce in their children what they consider gender roles. |
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boys in overalls
girls in dresses. |
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| more than one mate at the same time. |
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| practice of allowing men to have two or more wives at same time. |
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| practice of allowing women to have two or more husbands at same time. |
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| young adulthood (26-39) Extramarital sex- consensual arrangements |
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| an open marriage- both partners agree that its ok to have sex with others. swingers are a consensual arrangement as well having the wives swap. |
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| couple agrees to allow sexual relations outside the marriage |
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| type of open marriage relationship in which a couple has extramarital relations with other couples. |
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| many parents may appear to be nonsexual because they hesitate to discuss the topic of sexuality in any way with their children, or because they are not inclined to exhibit loving, affectionate responses, let alone sexual behavior in front of their children. |
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| Middle Ages (40-59) frequency of sex |
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| sex was being haved atleast 1once a week in their 50+ years. men and women 45+ were having sexual fantasies, dreams,thoughts, etc. |
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| men and women having younger partners than they are or older partners than they are. |
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| perimenopause. changes that occur in the few years that precede and the first year that follows menopause. |
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| intense heat in face, upper body, and head |
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| refers to the process whereby the normal processes of pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, and menopause have been claimed and redefined by medicine. |
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| depends. age, society, period of history. |
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| Attitudes about masturbation |
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| a lot of people for centuries put the idea of masturbation down to a level in which people were neglected and told they had a disease, were abnormal, not right, disgusting, etc. |
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| incidence of masturbation |
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| a lot of people masturbate today, no matter the history and attitudes people have. its cannot cause and diseases and is perfectly normal. people should not feel guilty to masturbate. |
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| Most men are all similar by stroking rhymatically up and down. women can use toys, insert fingers, touch around certain parts of the vagina, etc. |
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| Functions of Masturbation |
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| everyone does it in a relationship or either out of a relationship. it does not mean sex with the partner is bad, it is just variety and different. the only way there is a problem is if the partner masturbate to avoid having sexual experiences with their partner. |
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| what you wish for or desire usually secretely. most common is replacement fantasy- imagining having sex with someone other than their sex partner. |
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four stages of fantasy
exploratory, intimacy, impersonal sex, dominance. |
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1, exploratory - experimentation with never before tried behaviors such as group sex or same-sex activities.
2, intimacy - sexual activities with a known partner
3, impersonal sex- sex with strangers or watching others have sex.
4, dominance-submission themes |
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| someone who feels positively about his or her sexuality. they feel free |
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| attachment theory of love |
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3 styles of attachment:
1. secure - children who learn that parents are a source of security and trust.
2. anxious-ambivilant - children whos parents are inconsistent, which eventaully leads to uncertainity and a variety of emotional reactions that may include actively seeking to be near the parent, ambivalence & angry outburts.
3. avoidant - children develop negative attitudes of others because their parents either neglect or understimulate them or overstimulate them. |
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| an emotional state that is aroused by a perceived threat to a valued relationship or position and motivates behavior aimed at countering the threat. |
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| external female genitalia, including the mons veneris, labia minora, clitoris, vaginal opening, and urethral opening. |
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| small, elongated erectile structure in women that develops from the same embryonic tissue as the penis. only function, to focus on sexual sensation |
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| thin membrane that partially covers the vaginal opening in many sexually inexperienced women. its presence or absence, however, is really a very poor indicator of prior sexual experience |
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| small sensitive area on the front wall of the vagina found in about 10% of all women |
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| two pea-shaped structures located beneath the prostate gland in men that secrete a few drops of an alkaline fluid prior to orgasm |
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| male organ for sexual intercourse and the passageway for sperm & urine. |
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| the pouch beneath the penis that contains the testicles |
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