Human Sexuality Midterm 1

media, anatomy, culture, research, gender, and response

The images portrayed are not often real and yet forms our sexuality

What are the problems with media portrayal of sexuality

-lesbians are seen as masculine

-gays are seen as feminine

-in TV, both groups have their sexuality made their whole personality

Gays and Lesbians in the Media

Pleasurable and Procreative aspects of sex at a young age

What do the Mangaia of Polynesia emphasize

women: how to recieve pleasure

boys: how to give a woman pleasure

What are boys and women taught in the Mangaia culture?

They vanish

In the Mangaia culture, what happens to sexual habits as one becomes an adult

Not at all, sex is for reproductive purposes only

How interested are the Dani peoples from New Guinea?

no interest in sex and have no desire except for wanting children

how were women in Victorian America supposed to behave sexually?

They were supposed to be lust driven and have a large sexual appetite.

how were men in Victorian America supposed to behave sexually?

Ducts of Batholin’s Glands

What is number 1 called?

Labia Majora

What is number 2 called?

Mons Pubis

What is number 3 called?

Clitoral Hood/ Prepuce

What is number 4 called?

Glans of Clitoris

What is number 5 called?

Urethral Opening

What is number 6 called?

Vaginal Opening

What is number 7 called?

Labia Minora

What is number 8 called?

Perineum

What is number 9 called?

Anus

What is number 10 called?

The opening in the cervix leading to the uterus

What is the Os in Female Anatomy?

The lining of the uterus rich in blood cells that sheds during a period

What is the Endometrium in Female Anatomy?

The clitoris glands inside the body that lead to the glans clitoris.

It has a wishbone shape

What is the Corora Cavernosa in Female Anatomy?

Labia Majora

What is number 1 called?

Urethral Opening

What is number 2 called?

glans clitoris

What is number 3 called?

Crura

What is number 4 called?

Urethra

What is number 5 called?

Pubic Bone

What is number 6 called?

Bladder

What is number 7 called?

Uterus

What is number 8 called?

Ovary

What is number 9 called?

Fimbriae

What is number 10 called?

Fallopian Tube

What is number 11 called?

Cervix

What is number 12 called?

rectum

What is number 13 called?

Vagina

What is number 14 called?

G-spot

What is number 15 called?

Skene’s Glands: activated when G-spot is touched

What is located inside 15 and is activated in response to 15

Anus

What is number 16 called?

Hymen

What is number 17 called?

Introdus (vaginal opening)

What is number 18 called?

Labia Minora

What is number 19 called?

darkened area around the nipple on the breast

what is the areola

bubble things that produce milk

what is an alveoli

Shaft

What is number 1 called?

Testes

What is number 2 called?

Corona

What is number 3 called?

Glans Penis

What is number 4 called?

Urethral opening

What is number 5 called?

Foreskin/ Prepuce

What is number 6 called?

rapid/complex changes that changed the way society viewed the sexually opressive Victorian era and recognize a difference in autonomy.

What was the Sexual Revolution

Marriage was not the only space for expressing sexuality and a broader acceptance of same-sex relationships

how was relational status and sexual orientation viewed differently in the Sexual Revolution

multidimensional construct composed of sexual identity, attraction, and behavior

What is the def for Sexual Orientation

young boys would often have relationships with older men, whom they would learn from. But marriage could not be subsituted for woman-man marriages and the man would go to other women for pleasure. The marriage was just for family and reproduction.

how did the ancient greeks go about relationships and marriage

boys have sexual relations with older boys and then when they reach adulthood they only do sexual activities with girls and women.

What is sexual orientation like with the Sambians

gender expression/identity that does not match the sex assigned at birth

What is the definition of transgender

socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a society assigns to a person

What is gender?

whether the behavior conforms to our culture’s norms

how do we dictate what is “normal” or “abnormal”?

The sexual variance and diversity in humans’ behavoirs and fantasies.

what does sexual variation describe?

a personal inclination that reflects a prejudice in favor of/against a person/group/thing in contrast to another

What are biases in reasearch

sets of simplistic, rigid, overgeneralized beliefs about a person/group/idea

what are sterotypes?

men are always ready for sex, women need longterm relationships to enjoy sex

examples of sexual stereotypes

belief that our own ethnic group/nation/culutre is superior to others

what is the ethnocentric fallacy

use interviews/questionnaires to gather information.

questionnaires are often too short and don’t give in depth responses

what is survey research?

broad areas, more people, easy

what is the benefit of internet research?

the systematic manipulation of individuals or the environment to learn the effects of the manipulation on behavior. Researchers can isolate a single factor this way

what is experimental research?

Thought that the orgin of problems was masturbation,

what were the early views of researchers like Richard von Krafft Ebing and Graham?

Masturbation was normal, female sexuality is normal, and that the West’s norms were not norms everywhere, and people are born with same-sex attraction

what were Havelock Ellis’s views?

believed people could exist outside of traditional sex/gender binaries. Laid foundation for present constructs of sex and gender. Founded institutions for sex research and gay rights.

what were Magnus Hirschfeld’s views?

destroyed the belief in American sexual innocence and virtue. Published Sexual Behavoir in the Human Male and d Sexual Behavoir in the Human Female. These documented the ACTUAL sexual behavoirs of Americans

what were Alfred Kinsey’s views?

published Human Sexual Response:

male and female responses are similar, women experience orgasm through the clitoris, and thus legitimized female masturbation.

what were Masters and Johnson’s views?

she demostrated that homosexuality was not a sickness and that previous researchers did not have a control group of gays and lesbians, only the ones who were seeking treatment.

what were Evelyn Hooker’s views?

spermiatic chord

What is 1

epididymis

What is 2

testis

What is 3

scrotum

What is 4

urethral opening

What is 6

glans penis

What is 7

urethra

What is 8

penis

What is 9

corpora cavernosum

What is 10

corpus songiosum

What is 11

vans deferenes

What is 12

Pubic bone

What is 13

bladder

What is 14

seminal vesicle

What is 15

ureter

What is 16

rectum

What is 17

Ampulla

What is 18

ejaculatory duct

What is 19

prostate gland

What is 20

cowper’s gland

What is 21

anus

What is 22

frenulum

What connects the foreskin (prepuce) to the glans penis and is a thin band of tissue

Corona

What is the rim at the base of the glans?

Corpus spongiosum

what is the name for the parallel column of tissue that runs in the glans penis below the corpora cavernosa?

Glans penis/clitoris, Penile/clitoral prepuce, corpus cavernosum of the penis/clitoris, corpus_spongiosum/labia_minora, Prostate/skenes gland, scrotum/labia_majora, testes/ovaries

what are the 7 homologous organs across sexes?

swelling or enlargement of the male breast

What is Gynecomastia?

It studied the effects of untreated Syphyllis on Black men for their whole life even though it was only supposed to last a couple of months

What was the Tuskeegee Study?

The Naitonal Health and Social Life Survey

The National Survey of Family Growth

The National College Health Assesment

The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior

2015 Sexual Exploration in America Study

Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, and Resolution

What are the 4 phases of the Masters and Johnson’s sexual response cycle