Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Orgasm, Mangaia, Masturbation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Jacob Fisher

Document Summary

In the past, provided most of the information people had about sexuality: religion is a source of values and ethics regarding sexuality, conservative christians interpret the bible in opposition of homosexuals, same sex sexual behavior and same sex marriage but canadians see it has anti gay prejudice and homophobia, ancient greeks, openly acknowledged heterosexuality and homosexuality, myth: humans were double creatures with twice the normal number of limbs and organs (some were double male, female or half half), gods split them in half and each one continued to search for it"s missing half, how they understood sexual orientation and desire. 15th century christians: wet dreams or nocturnal emissions resulted from intercourse with spiritual creatures called incubi and succubi, wet dreams, sexual dysfunction and sexual list were caused by witchcraft, muslims, sexual intercourse is one of the finest pleasures of life, teachings of the prophet muhammad, primarily as source of pleasure and secondarily for reproduction.