Sex

Question 1

What are the determinants of sex. identity?

Answer 1

Genes
hormones
Enviroment

Question 2

Hormones

Answer 2

Steroid hormones

Neuropeptide hormones

Question 3

Neuropeptide hormones

Answer 3

Oxytocin

- influences erotic and emotional attraction to one another (often called the “love hormone”)

Question 4

Steroid hormones

Answer 4

Testosterone (male sex hormone)

Estrogen (female sex hormone)

Question 5

Estrogensin ♂m sexual behavior

Answer 5

defend their territory

Question 6

Estrogensin ♀f sexual behavior

Answer 6

general sense ofwell-being

- Contribute to vaginal lubrication

Question 7

TIMELINE on research in sex (4)

Answer 7

• 1938 Kinsey, begins his mostly sociological studies of human sexual behavior.
• 1947 Kinsey founds the “Institute for Sex Research” (today called Kinsey Institute) at Indiana University.
• 1948 Kinsey and his collaborators Wardell B.Pomeroy and Clyde E.Martin publish their first great study “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”.
• 1953 Alfred C. Kinsey and his collaborators Wardell B.Pomeroy, Clyde E.Martin, and Paul H.Gebhard publish “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”. Both “Kinsey Reports” are based on personal interviews (not questionnaires!) with over 12000 individuals from all over the USA. The extent of demonstrated

Question 8

ROle of the asenses

Answer 8

TOUCH. primary and secondary zones
vision: Males are more aroused
smell; Pheromones
Taste: minor influence
Hearing: variable

Question 9

Anaphrodisiacs

Answer 9

Birth control pills,
Opiates, tranquilizers, sedatives
–Nicotine 
–Blood pressure medicine, drugs treatingheart disease
–Antidepressants
–Anticonvulsant and antipsychotic drugs

Question 10

Masters & Johnson

Answer 10

The sexual response: - –laboratory data 4 -stage model of Sex.

Question 11

4-stage model of Sex.

Answer 11

1. Excitement
2. plateau
3. orgasm
4. resolution

Question 12

1. Excitement

Answer 12

Myotonia (muscle tension)
 Vasocongestion (blood vessels contract)
 Increase heart rate
 Increase blood pressure
 Sex flush (blood “rash” on chest or breasts)
 Duration: 1 minute to several hours

Question 13

2. plateau

Answer 13

 Continued myotonia
 Continued vasocongestion
 Continued increased heart rate
 Continued increased blood pressure
 Duration: few seconds to several minutes

Question 14

3. ORGASMIC PHASE

Answer 14

Series of muscular contractions: 0.8 sec frequency

Question 15

Aging in women

Answer 15

reduced desire,
less lubrication
, drier and loses some elasticity
more rapid resolution

Question 16

Aging in men

Answer 16

Longer time to develop an erection

Question 17

Turner syndrome

Answer 17

MONOsomy
Short statue, immature sex organs
infertility

Question 18

Metafemale

Answer 18

Trisomy (trilple x syndrome)
delayed development, intellect lower, taller, shy, speech difficulty
KLINEFELTER syndrome
male: small testicles, reduced fertility or infertility
Jacobs syndrome: tall, thin male, acne, high levels of testosterone.