PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clelia Duel Mosher, Havelock Ellis, Victorian Era

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3121
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

P s y 3 1 2 1 : p s y c h o l o g y o f w o m e n. The study of sexuality: methods of investigation, hard to observe sexuality scientifically. O direct observation: people are less willing to participate, research on animals may not generalize to humans. Implied that everyone has already done everything so just asked when it happened. The opposite for women: men had a wider variety of sexual experiences than women, after the kinsey reports, most other sex researchers chose to do surveys as well. Hunt"s playboy foundation survey: sexual behaviour in the 1907s. The national health and social life survey: 1990s: first survey to obtain a representative sample, results: Gender differences and similarities in sexual attitudes and behaviours. Two large gender-related differences: among men, higher rate of masturbation, greater acceptance of casual premarital sex.