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ICM- Human Sexuality
Sexual Behaviors (T Pierce)
16
Medical
Professional
10/22/2009

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Term
sexual activities
Definition
  • masturbation- universally practiced, considered normal precursor to sexual activity with another person
    • generally last throughout life
  • kissing
  • mutual touching
  • oral sex- fellatio, cunnilingus
  • intercourse- vaginal, anal
Term
describe sexual learning that happens in childhood
Definition
  • development of self esteem and healthy body image vs. development of shame
  • genital stimulation normal in babies (most pronounced 15-19 months)
  • as youngsters acquire playmates, there will be natural curiousity about your own and others genitalia
    • leads to exhibitionism and exploration
    • also learn through teaching ad behavior of parents, other adults, media, etc.
Term
sexual learning that happens in adolescence
Definition
  • puberty intensifies sexual curiousity
  • masturbation and sexual fantasies
  • body image, sexual adequacy, desirability
  • learn by kissing, carressing, and in context of peer group through experimentation with nudity and with different partners
Term
Is sexual behavior acquired or learned? in what context
Definition
  • much sexual behavior is learned
  • early sexual experienced if associated with pleasure and release of tension are likely to be repeated
  • sexual learning and experimentation continues throughout life cycle compatible with cultural norms
Term
What makes sex "normal"
Definition
  • whether each partner is satisfied and comfortable with sexual relationship
  • cultural attitudes, religious beliefs and law may play role in determining normal
    • couples beliefs are crucial to determining what is normal for them
  • human beings may respond to wide variety of arousing stimuli
    • as long as sexual fantasy or behavior does not lead to emotional or physical discomfort, conflict in relationship, problems in other aspects in their lives, it shouldnt' be source of concern
Term
Best way to meet sexual and emotional needs
Definition
observe and discuss each other's feelings
Term
In order to be satisfied in sexual behavior, what must the person be feeling normally
Definition
  • need feelings of self confidence
  • free from anxiety
  • the presence of arousing mental and physical stimulation
  • ability to focus attention on sexually arousing thoughts and behavior

Anything interfering with these conditions can disrupt a sexual encounter. If one or more of these conditions is routinely absent, an inability to perform can become a lasting problem.

Term
Define performance anxiety
Definition
any type of anxiety that leads to an episode in sexual failure
Term
What people need in order to become aroused
Definition
  • mental stimulation of partner they love or find attractive
  • combined with appropriate physical stimulation

Need for direct physical stimulation increases with age

Term
trends in sexual behavior: premarital sex and cohabitation
Definition
  • premarital sex has become increasingly common
    • people spending longer and longer periods of their sexual life outside of marriage
    • number of lifetime sexual partners grown
  • cohabitation (due to rise in premarital sex, coupled with delays in marriage)
    • fewer sexual partners than those who are unmarried not cohabiting
    • people who are cohabitating have more sexual partners
Term
trends in sexual behavior: nonmarrital birth
Definition
  • connection between marriage and procreation has lessened
  • 1/3 births to unmarried women (double in blacks than that of whites)
  • caused by expansion in premarital sexual activity, in turn leading to increased cohabitation
Term
Average intercourse frequency. Factor with greatest impact
Definition

once a week (most sexually active as young, old, but decreased in middle age)

Term
Trends in sexual behavior: extramarital affairs
Definition
  • more common in younger adults
  • twice as high among husbands as oppose to wives
Term
More sexual intercourse is connected to what factors
Definition
  • being younger
  • marriage three years or less
  • rating ones marriage as happier

UNRELATED TO GENDER WHEN CONTROL FOR THESE FACTORS

Term
What gives someone the capacity to develop intimate relationships
Definition
  • ability to give and receive love with minimum of fear, conflict
  • trust and vulnerability central to intimacy
  • in intimate relationship, person actively strives for growth and happiness of loved person
Term
Explain Rollo Mays theory of active receiving and the implications of it
Definition
  • person, while loving permits himself to be loved
  • in such a loving relationship, sex acts as catalyst
  • values of sexual love as an expansion of self awareness, experience of tenderness, increase self affirmation and pride, and loss of feelings of separateness
  • sex and love reciprocally enhancing and healthily fused
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