Sexuality in perspective

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

The state of being male or female or some other gender

Question 1

Sex

Answer 1

Sexual anatomy and sexual behavior

Question 2

Sexual behavior

Answer 2

Produces an arousal and increases the chance of orgasm

Question 3

Ancient greeks viewed sexuality:

Answer 3

Thought there where man-man, woman-woman and man-woman people, who were then separated

Will always come back to each other, that’s how sexuality was created

Question 4

Fifteenth century Christians viewed sexuality:

Answer 4

Thought wet dreams were witch craft

Question 5

Muslims viewed sexuality:

Answer 5

Sexual intercourse as one of the finest pleasures in life

Question 6

John Harvey Kellogg

Answer 6

Sexual behavior, especially masturbation was very intolerable
–> Invented food, cornflakes, to reduce this behavior

Question 7

Sigmund Freud

Answer 7

Founder of psychanalysis

“Sexuality is both the primary force in the motivation of all human behavior and the principal cuase of all forms of neurosis”

Question 8

Henry Havelock Ellis

Answer 8

Forerunner of modern sex research
- Women, like men, are sexual creatures
- Masturbation is common
- Phyiscal and psychological factors play a role in sexual problems
- Sexual deviations from the norm are often harmless

Question 9

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Answer 9

Described sexual disorders based on patients’ experiences

Coined the terms sadism, masochism, pedophilia, homosexuality, heterosexuality

Question 10

Magnus Hirschfeld

Answer 10

Founder of first sex institute

First large-scale sex survey obtaining data from 10.000 people on a 130-item questionnaire

Introduced the term transvestite

Question 11

Alfred Kinsey

Answer 11

Founding father of Insitute of Sex Research

Kinsey reports and Kinsey scale (7-point sexual orientation scale)

Question 12

Masters & Johnson

Answer 12

Most famous observational sex research
–> Physiology of sexual response and sexual disorders

Question 13

Cultivation

Answer 13

Exposure to media makes people think that what they see represents the mainstream of what really occurs

Question 14

Agenda setting or framing theory

Answer 14

Idea that the media define what is important and what is not by which stories they cover

Question 15

Social cognitive theory

Answer 15

Idea that the media provide role models whom we imitate

Question 16

Selectivity

Answer 16

Idea that people select and pay attention to certain media content

Question 17

Reinforcing spiral theory

Answer 17

One’s social identity predicts one’s media use and, in turn, media use affects one’s identity and beliefs

Question 18

Differential susceptibility model

Answer 18

Not everyone responds the same to the same media content

Question 19

Ethnocentrism

Answer 19

Tendency to regard one’s own culture as superior