PSYC 333 Lecture 1: Week 1 One Note Note taker PSYC 333 Lecture 1
21 Sep 2018
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Sexuality is a mass of terminology and is a lot more than just the behaviour in a strict sense of sex. Traditional meaning of sex is limited and restricted especially if viewed from a heterocentric lens. Baseball pizza analogy in the way sex is viewed. Biological condition of being male and/ or female as determined by genes, chromosomes, hormones, and physical traits: not the same as sexuality. Current definitions of sexuality are more broad. Sexual health (not just absence of disease; emotional and well being as well) Sexuality definition: a central aspect of being human, encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction, can be expressed and experience in many different ways (ex. thoughts, fantasies, roles) Influenced by interaction of different factors: biological, physiological, socio-cultural, politico-legal, economic, historical, religious/ spiritual. Specific to socio-cultural influences: self check-in with respect to ethnocentrism: judging other cultures solely by the values a(cid:374)d sta(cid:374)dards of o(cid:374)e"s ow(cid:374) culture.
