Chapter 14 - Sexual Behaviours and Relationships Flashcards
(51 cards)
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Later age of first intercourse is linked to
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- Positive emotional connections with family members
- Parental disapproval of early sex
- Contraceptive use
- Greater parental control
- Higher peer related self-esteem
- Higher academic achievement and participation
- More sex education received
- Greater religiosity
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Earlier age of first intercourse is associated with
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- Greater peer pressure to have sex
- Substance use with friends
- Having an older partner
- Prior experience of unwanted sexual contact
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Reluctant virgins
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- Often attribute their virginity to shyness, poor body image, lack of dating experience, poor social skills, and logistical problems related to work or living arrangements
- Typically dissatisfied and unhappy with their lack of sexual experience
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Three key components to giving sexual consent
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- Clear understanding
- Given freely
- Ongoing
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How are women and men likely to consent
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- Women are more likely to do it verbally
- Men are more likely to use nonverbal cues
- Both genders were more likely to look for nonverbal cues
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Sexual compliance
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- An individual’s willing consent to engage in sexual behaviour when they do not desire sexual activity
- Women are more likely to do this than men
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Why do people do sexual compliance and what does it lead to
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- They want to make partner’s happy, promote intimacy, and avoid relationship conflict
Sexual compliance resulting from these motives may have positive consequences like:
- more sexual satisfaction,
- greater feelings of closeness,
- greater sense of fun in the relationship
- May lead to negative feelings as well
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Two levels of the social script theory
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- Interpersonal level
- Intrapsychic or individual level: may also reflect widespread changes in attitudes toward sex
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Sexual fantasies
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- Sexual thoughts or images that stimulate a person physiologically and/or emotionally
- Diverse in content
- Can include taboo subjects
- May be influenced by many factors
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Masturbation
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- Sexual behaviour that people can engage in alone or with a partner (mutual masturbation)
- Good way to learn about your body in a safe way
- Typically more common for men than women
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Kissing
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- Typically lip to lip but can move around erogenous zones to stimulate
- Can stimulate touch, smell, and taste simultaneaously
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Touching
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- Can stimulate genital and nongenital areas with hands, body parts, and objects
- Like kissing can be good for foreplay
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Oral sex
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- Stimulating a partner’s genitals orally
- Can have a risk for STI
- Cunnilingus: oral sex performed on a vulva
- Fellatio: oral sex performed on a penis
- Anilingus: Oral sex performed on the anus, perineum, and surrounding area
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Sixty Nine
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- Refers to sexual posting in which partners engage in simultaneous oral stimulation
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Common nonpenerative behaviours
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- Dry humping
- Scissoring
- Tribadism
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Orgasm
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- Sexual response
- Not directly in our control
- Viewed as a goal of sexual activity, as the end of a sexual encounter, an indicator of sexual satisfaction
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Individual factors that correlate with greater sexual satisfaction
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- Younger age,
- Fewer sexual problems,
- Greater frequency of orgasm
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Relational factors that correlate with greater sexual satisfaction
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- Relationship satisfaction
- Effective communication
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Lifestyle factors that correlate with greater sexual satisfaction
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- Partners working the same shift
- Etc
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The interpersonal exchange model of sexual satisfaction
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- Considers sexual behaviours to be exchanges
- Exchanges can either be experienced as a reward (pleasing), a cost (displeasing), both, or neither
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What leads to greater sexual satisfaction over time according to the IEMSS
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- More sexual rewards than costs
- Better reward-to-cost ratios than expected
- Equality in rewards and costs between partners
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Elements on the IEMSS Diagram
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- Relationship satisfaction
- Relative level of rewards to costs
- Comparison level of rewards to coast
- Equality of Rewards to costs
All lead to the level of sexual satisfaction
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What do North American studies say about the use of sex toys
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- Queers like them the most especially during partnered sex
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What sexual behaviours are men more likely to report than women
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- More frequent masturbation
- Greater use of sexually explicit materials
- More casual sex
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Benefits of disclosing sexual preferences to a partner
- Greater awareness of sexual rewards
- Fewer costs
- Higher sexual satisfaction for both partners
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How is sexual satisfaction different from sexual functioning
- Sexual satisfaction involves the interpersonal and affective qualities of sex
- Sexual functioning emphasizes sexual responses
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Sex toy facts
- About 50% of respondents have used one
- Women are more likely than men to have used one
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Dating
- Acknowledging that they are committed to each other
- People start dating in preadolescence in North America, but real dating starts a few years later
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In person dating compared to online dating
- Similar patterns
- You can learn more about a person online in a quicker way though
- Learning more may be the reason they feel more intimacy quicker
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Rates of marriage
- Rates of marriage between 18 and 34 are about half of what they we're thirty years ago, but cohabitation is up about 50%
- Hetero marriage down homo marriage up
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What do longitudinal studies about sexual satisfaction in long-term relationships
- Relationally satisfied couples tend to remain sexually satisfied over decades
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What factors can cause fluctuations in sexual satisfaction
- Life circumstances such as childbirth like childbirth, fatigue , financial stress, and hormonal changes
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Primary cause of declining sexual frequency over time in a relationship
- Aging
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What percentage of Canadian married and cohabitating couples report having sex monthly or weekly
- 87% married
- 92% cohabitating
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Divorce
- 33% of marriages divorce
- Divorce on average after 14.5 years
- Majority remarry
- 38% of divorcees have sex weekly
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Four components of a friends with benefits relationship
- Ongoing
- Sexual
- Non-exclusive
- Not discussed or revealed to others
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What motivates men and women differently in FWBRs
- Men: Sexual desire and prefer the relationship to stay the same
- Women: Seek emotional connection and hope for a relationship to evolve
- Both value friendship more than the sexual aspect
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Types of CNM relationships
- Polymory
- Swinging
- Open relationships
- Etc.
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Polyamory
- Involves being in a long term romantic and/or sexual relationship with more than one person at the same time
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Swinging
- Practice of both partners in an emotionally committed or married couple agreeing to and participating in sex with others, usually at the same time
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Open relationships
- One primary relationship in which both partners freely consent to one or both partners having sexual relations, but not emotional bonds, with others
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Polygamy
- Type of polyamory in which one person is married to more than one spouse at the same time
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Agenda-setting theory
- Proposes that media influence our thoughts and behaviour by highlighting what we should pay attention to
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Cultivation theory
- Proposes that media portrayals create a shared set of values and expectations about reality among media consumers
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Social learning theory and media
- The idea that learning occurs through modelling of observed behaviour
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Recently proposed theory sought to provide a framework for understanding impacts of sexual media and sexual quality
Aspects to consider
1. The context of the sexual media being viewed
2. Short-term or long-term
3. The extent to which the sexual scripts that one is exposed to in sexual media is applied in one's life
4. The influence of the couple context
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Positive effects of media exposure to sexual content
- Increased awareness of diversity, sexual health education, and encouragement of safer sex behaviours
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What are the main types of online sexual activity
1. sexual info
2. sexual entertainment
3. online/offline contact
4. sexual minority communities
5. sexual products
6. sex work
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Potential negative outcomes of OSA use
1. experience relationship problems
2. the use if a consequence to their relationship problems
3. association may be due to other issues like impulse control
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What is mild or moderate of OSA linked to
- An increased quality and frequency of sexual activity
- Increased intimacy with partners
