PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Infertility, Health Canada, Casual Sex

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Krystelle Shaughnessy

Document Summary

Identification of sexual likes and dislikes (and how they vary from occasion to occasion) Learning to communicate effectively with a sexual partner. Developing and maintaining intimacy (deeper emotional connection and disclosure) Specifies how men and women are expected to behave in [heterosexual] sexual situations. Men are oversexed and women are undersexed ; men are seen as having stronger sexual needs and having higher motivation to engage in intercourse. High sexual experience enhances men"s but decreases women"s perceived status (men"s sexual experience typically reflected masculinity/attractiveness) Men are expected to be sexperts and take responsibility for both their own and their partner"s sexual pleasure and orgasms (are also the initiators) Women are expected to be sexual gatekeepers who place limits on sexual activity. Engaging in sexual activity purely based on desire. Average age for females is 29, for men is 31. Same sex marriage has almost tripled since 2006.