SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Missionary Position, Sexology, Gay Liberation
10 Mar 2020
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Improved marital relationship women happier if had orgasms pre- marriage: questioned whether sexual intercourse could satisfy women (in missionary position) I. e. sex not only about penetration which was king : petting, oral sex also important to sexual pleasure & satisfaction. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories Kinsey & homosexuality: findings about homosexuality valuable & important, insisted on behavioural definition of homosexuality. Plateau phase (sexual excitement prior to orgasm: 3. Sexual therapy: treatment of sexual dysfunction main focus of research, more practice orientated than kinsey, regarded selves as clinicians/therapists, goal help clients overcome sexual problems, within context of heterosexual marital couple. Bad sex" problematized marital relationship, led to divorce: developed sex therapy teams/counsellors, consisted of trained heterosexual husband & wife, approach contributed to its acceptance & popularity in us. Ignores different embodied experiences among individuals: privileged heterosexual genital sex.
