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| 4 stages of awareness of homosexuality |
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1. initial awareness of same-sex attraction
2. reconciling same-sex orientation
3. exploring gay and lesbian subcultures
4. disclosing to others |
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confusion, comparison, tolerance, acceptance, pride, synthesis
--coming out publicly is not necessary for synthesis |
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-looking for alternatives to categorization: writing about and acknowledging ambiguity.
reject idea that sexuality is an essentialist category |
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social codes, activity, power
shape what is normative + deviant |
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| sexual activity statistics |
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-gay men = more sexually active and more accepting of casual sex
-data says that lesbians have less sex: how is sex defined? |
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| us congress provided funding for sex education oriented toward abstinence; classes taught that sexual activity should be an exclusive part of marriage |
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| self-selection of participants |
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a problem that occurs when completing surveys
participants can choose what questions they want to answer
biases results and prevents generalization to population |
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| group of people that contain characteristics that represent population of people which they belong |
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wrote books about sexual behaviors in different cultures
lead him to believe that the victorian social norms of repression and denial of sexuality were not reflected in sexual behavior |
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| the kinsey surveys: what were they? |
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| conducted interview about social and economic background, marital history, sex education, physical characteristics and physiology, norcturnal sex dreams, masturbation, heterosexual history, same-sex sexual activity, and sexual conduct with animals |
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| the kinsey surveys: results |
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women enjoyed sex
substantial amount of men performed male-male sexual activity
children experienced sexual excitement and activity
masturbation, premarital sex, and extramarital sex were common in both men and women
90% of women had experienced orgasm by age 35
only 2% failed to enjoy sexual activity |
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| what % of men reported to have had a sexual experience with another man in kinsey's survey? |
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| Results of Hunt's Playboy Foundation survey |
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oral sex is becoming more popular.
college education: 60%
Highschool degree: 20%
Dropouts: 10% |
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| national health and social life survey |
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only 30% of respondents expressed that pre-marital sex was wrong
showed that non-socially-acceptable behaviors were less appealing
more conservative research results |
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had people perform sexual activities in the lab
measured heart rate, muscle contraction, and dilation of blood vessels
Concluded that 4 stages of orgasm exist: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution |
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