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| Who wrote the books Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy? |
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| When did Kinsey and his co-authors publish Sexual Behavior is the Human Male? |
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| Name two major criticisms of Kinsey’s methodology. |
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| Subject bias, Experimenter bias, lack of random sampling, high percentage of unrepresentative subjects ( prisoners, college students and staff) |
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| What do we mean by ambiguous gender? Not sure if the anatomy is female or male, either gross anatomy or chromosomes, or behavior. |
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| Hermaphrodite for example, or queer. |
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| What are the two most common combinations of human sex chromosomes? |
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| Why is it poor scholarship to discuss the relative importance of genes and environment in questions of sexuality? |
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| Both are critical- nature AND nurture multiply. |
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| How is the term “gender” ambiguous? |
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| It can refer to biology or to social roles. |
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| A great deal of bizarre sexual behavior and interest is due to confusion and…. |
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| What is a 6 on the Kinsey scale of sexual orientation? |
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| Our self-definition of our gender and gender roles is our sexual... |
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| Our general attraction to either same-sex or opposite-sex partners in called…. |
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| If we are equally attracted to male and female partners, we are termed |
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| Much of sexual behavior is related to partnering and mate selection for reproduction. Therefore, and important first step in this process is the ability to…. |
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| While sex is a broad term referring, like the words sect, section, and dissection, to cutting in two, and the differences in the male and female sexes, it also specifically refers to sexual arousal, a physiological pattern that is similar for… |
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- How can you tell the difference between the minor labia and the major labia in the female genitalia?
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| The vulva is a synonym for the mons veneris and the rest of the…. |
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| external female genitalia |
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| How corpus spongiosa does a typical penis have... |
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| Where is the foreskin, if any, attached to the penis? |
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| Sexology is multidisciplinary, but Masters and Johnson’s approach was distinctly…. |
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| How is the foreskin of the penis similar to the clitoral hood? |
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| it couvers most of the sensitive parts and whats beneath is often uncovered during arousal |
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| What fills with blood to make a man’s penis rigid during arousal? |
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| Before ejaculation, semen is mostly stored in the seminal vesicles and the |
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| Some testosterone, and other steroids, are naturally produced by what gland in the female... |
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| Failing sexual response during waking, a male may experience involuntary orgasm and ejaculation during his sleep, known as a wet dream or…. |
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| Between the vagina and the uterus is the… |
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| Most of the testosterone in the male is produced in the same part of the testes as the sperm, that is, in the |
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| Cilia transport the sperm cells from the epididymus of the testes to the seminal vesicles by way of the…. |
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| Vas deferens, or spermatic duct or spermatic cord |
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| Unlike pornography, who is portrayed in sex educational films? |
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| In addition to vaocongestion, sexual arousal in the male and female involves what other general bodily response? |
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| Where are estrogens secreted? |
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| The active egg follicle in the ovary. |
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| What part of the body has receptors for levels of estrogens and progesterones? |
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- Hypothalamus and perhaps other areas of the brain.
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| What gland in the brain is called the master gland? |
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| Name the two female trophic sex hormones |
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| Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) |
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| Name the male trophic sex hormone? |
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| Interstitial Cell Stimulating Hormone ICSH |
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| Where is testosterone produced? |
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| In the interstitial cells of the seminiferous tubules |
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| What does the hypothalamus detect in the blood stream? |
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| Why does the menstrual cycle take about 28 days? |
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| It takes time for the follicle to grow, then time to convert to corpus luteum and grow, and time for hormone levels to drop after they are not being released. |
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| Where is the pituitary gland |
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| There are two main differences in the human sexual response for men and women, with women getting the advantage on both. |
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| Women take longer/ lasting longer, more pleasure time. Women can have multiple orgasms. |
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| One paradoxical event that can happen at the start of female orgasm is a retraction of the clitoris back under the clitoral hood. How is knowledge of this beneficial? |
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| Both owner of clitoris and partner, if any, will not be upset by this- it’s natural, and they know where the top of the clitoris is hiding and can either stimulate it, or stimulate other parts of the clitoris. |
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| The period after an orgasm when a man cannot be aroused or have another orgasm is called… |
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| When did Masters begin his research on human sexual response? |
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| What funded Master’s research on human sexual response? |
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A Foundation- as in the case of Kinsey, foundations were looking for areas the government refused to fund with tax-payer money. |
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| Why did Masters need a sabbatical just as he started his research? |
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| To mingle with the prostitute population to get information from experts and obtain research subjects. (Kinsey had just been published, but included little biology of sex.) |
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| At what university did Master do his research? |
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| What was the purpose of adding Virginia Johnson to the team? |
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| A female point of view was recommended for talking with prostitutes and other subjects. |
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1.) What big problem did Master NOT anticipate?
2.) Why does Masters say their last book, Pleasure Bond, is ten years before its time |
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1.) Persecution of their children 2.) Because society is/was not ready |
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| What was Masters’ first research project as a med student? |
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- Name three possible functions of vaginal lubrication.
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- Ease and pleasure of penile insertion
- proper environment- physically and chemically for sperm to swim
- possible odor to signal receptivity
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| How can you tell the difference between pre-ejaculatory drip and semen? |
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| Drip is only a few drops, versus typical teaspoon for semen. Penis stays erect after drip, but loses erection after ejaculation- refractory period. |
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Pre-ejaculatory drip does contain a few sperm cells, making the withdrawal method (coitus interruptus) a very poor contraceptive method. What seems to be its main purpose?. |
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Cleaning out the urethra before the semen is released. Possible signal and stimulant as in female lubrication. |
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| Female lubrication and pre-ejaculatory drip are often confused with…… |
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| Some researchers argue that the plateau in HSR is misnamed because…. |
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| It is neither steady not flat, but often varies up and down, or is a continuously increasing arousal. |
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| Which dimensions on the HSR diagram can have very different scales for different people? |
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| Both time (horizontal) and measure of arousal (HR, RR, vasocongestion, muscles, et al.) |
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The most obvious two differences in HSR between typical males and females are.. |
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- the response is typically longer in time period for women (all four stages), and women are more likely to have multiple orgasms
- Much sex therapy with couples works to extend the male time frame, and shorten the woman’s.
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| Coitus is another name for ... |
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| ... sexual intercourse, penile-vagina intercourse |
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What often leads to the arousal stage in many species? |
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Mating behavior or ritual- dancing and other behavior to attract and stimulate a mate, sometimes competing with others. |
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| Masters and Johnson found that peak biological measures of orgasm are most often found when… |
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| when… people masturbate- they know what turns them on best |
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| The most common difficulty in the resolution stage is if one partner is still in the plateau. Second most common- is.... |
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| (If flip What is first) Second most common- if resolution is long for one and short for the other- often relating to other emotional entanglements or lack thereof. |
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| The statistical meaning of normal is… |
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| ...that which is common, the mode |
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| The clinical meaning of normal is… |
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that which does not disrupt good functioning; it is normal because it fits into your life without high cost/difficulty/poor adaptation.
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| A moral or ethical meaning of normal is… |
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| A moral or ethical meaning of normal is… that which conforms to social rules, perhaps having no relationship to what is common, or dysfunctional |
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| The philosophy of mankind’s basic nature as good of evil often conflicts with scientific observation of behavior that humans and other animals do frequently. This complicates the issue of whether natural behavior is ethical. Give an example. |
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Much sexual behavior is branded as evil by certain religions, but is otherwise normal and natural in the animal kingdom. Homosexual behavior, oral-genital sex, etc.
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| Give two reasons to use a spermicide with a barrier method of contraception such as a condom or diaphragm. |
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| The spermicide kills many viruses that could casue health problems/death, and the spermicide may be especially important to the contraceptive technique if the barrier fails (breaks, slips, etc.) |
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| A person who dresses in clothing that is partly masculine and partly feminine maybe said to appear…. |
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| A line of automobiles that is meant to appeal to men and provide a masculine image might be called |
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| Sadism is the enjoyment of observing pain in others, while masochism refers to enjoyment of pain in.. one’s self. |
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| Both are likely confusion with the physiology of sexual arousal |
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| Being the “top” is associated with which gender? |
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| A mechanical way of treating erectile dysfunction involves what to keep blood from leaving the penis? |
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| A tension ring, or cock ring, around the base of the penis. |
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| Boys often experience erotic feelings when their nipples are touched, and some minor enlargement near the nipples during puberty. Why is this disturbing to them? |
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| They have strong identity as boys, the sentivity and enlargement of nipples is believed to be feminine, leading them to doubt their identity, and make them subject to harassment, embarrassment, or even violence by peers. (Flip Why?) |
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| Why are cars often considered erotic? |
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They are marketed as masculine imagery to enhance male identity in hopes of attracting females, and in contrast they are often design to have feminine curves, mimicking the beauty of the female body form. Cars are somewhat mysterious, dangerous, arousing in that they increase experience with speed and noise, can get you into trouble, have huge peer potential, and are often a place of privacy and escape from the everyday. You can write a couple books, arguing that cars came along as sexual repression reached its peak in Western Civilization, as so are examples of not-hidden sublimation
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| What is the purpose of a suction device attached to the clitoris? |
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To cause vasocongestion, and hence increased sensitivity, and make stimulation easier.
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| Where are the Bartholin’s Glands located? |
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Where are the Bartholin’s Glands located? Near the vaginal opening.
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| What are the two purported benefits on Ben Wah balls? | |
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| Help with incontinence and improve orgasms (frequency and intensity) by strengthening the participating PC muscle (sort of barbells for Kegel exercises). (Flip What do Ben Wahl Balls do?) | |
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| The sexual ethical concerns discussed in the late 1970s at a Masters and Johnson sponsored institute focused on ethical behavior is training sexologists, doing sex research, with children and adults, and… |
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| sex therapy, confidentiality, mentally challenged subjects/patients, sexual imperialism/imposition of values |
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| A man imagining the pleasure of being a female in sexual arousal is termed…… |
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| What psychological changes do male-to-female transsexuals report from hormone treatments? |
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| Less horniness, more emotionality, more sociability |
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| What changes in the bloodstream during puberty? |
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Levels of sex hormones, and trophic hormones and releasing factors which stimulate sex hormone production
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| Name two secondary sex characteristics that are similar for men and women. |
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1.) Axillary and pubic hair, body/.leg hair 2.) enlarged genitals (?secondary) |
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| Name two secondary sex characteristics that a different for men and women. |
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1.) Breasts, Adam’s apple/deeper voice, facial hair, 2.) body shape, layer of under skin, muscle mass, body hair
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If the secondary sex characteristics are secondary, why is the period of change called “puberty”?
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Because the pubic area is enlarged, and becomes more sensitive and active, i.e. sexual behavior matures
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Female To Male (Flip what is the abreviation?) |
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| On what ethical principle are statutory rape laws based? |
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| Consent- minor are not informed/mature enough to give true consent. |
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| As we trace the chain of events that lead to puberty, what seems to be the origin? | |
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| The hypothalamus of the brain. | |
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