Midterm 1 Flashcards
messages of sex
presence and absence both send strong messages
historical perspective
religon has close links
ethnocentrism
believing that what you know is “normal” and everything else is abnormal - bias
Prehistoric view on sex
worship of women’s ability to Baer children
phallic worship began when paternity was discovered
ancient Hebrew view on sex
procreation, pleasure, polygamy
Ancient Greece view on sex
Bisexuality homosexuality, sexually liberal, prositution
courtesans
a mistress
Concubine
the lesser wife
Ancient Rome view on sex
orgies, homosexuality with men only
historic muslim view on sex
sex within marriage is great, men can take many wives (must be fair though)
Historic toaist view on sex
first sexual manual, masturbation only for women
historic hindu view on sex
virtuos and natural within a marriage
early Christian view on sex
for procreation only
Middle Ages view on sex
wet dreams were from spirits, lust blamed on witchcraft
Protestants reformation view on sex
allowed sex not for procreation within a marriage
victorian era view on sex
extreme sexual repression
3 types of media influence
cultivation - thinks what they see is true to reality
agenda setting- reporters show what the want
social learning - characters serve as models
Freud
psychodynamic theory
the unconscious mind
coined term libido
Havelock Ellis
wrote about homosexuality in a compassionate way
transgenderism in men
^called it over identification w/ admired object
Richard von Krafft-ebbing
non procreational sex is a perversion
Krafft ebbing 4 perversions
paradoxia - sexual respones at wrong time in life
Anesthia - insufficient sexual desire
hypersthesia - excessive sexual desire
Paraetheisia - sexual desire for wrong goal/object
mangus Hirschfeld
founder of first sex institute
first large scale sex survey
alfred Kinsey
published large sex survey
talked about prevalence of homosexuality
created scale of homosexuality 1-7
William masters +Virginia Johnson
looked at physiological response of sexual response
4 stages of orgasm
excitement phase
plateau phase
orgasm
resolution phase