BIOLOGY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Premarital Sex, Oral Sex, Libido
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Sex roles gender roles sexual identities interpreted differently depending on culture: greeks practiced heterosexuality and homosexuality. Origin of wet dream: intercourse w/ spiritual creatures: incubi and succubi name of creatures. Malleus maleficarium: women more likely to be witches because they are week and sexual. Wet dreams were considered guilty of sodomy and witchcraft (different era) dr. clelia mosher studied sexual behavior especially in women and upset many stereotypes: sex positive and scandalous at the time. Believed that sexual behavior was any behavior that results in orgasm. Kinsey"s definition of sexual behavior: too narrow, what about sexual behavior that does not include orgasm, example of ethnocentrism. Concepts used to understand cross-cultural views about sexuality. Cultivation: belief that media makes people think what they see there represents reality. Agenda setting: people in the media select what to report and what to ignore and what they emphasize. Social learning: characters in media serve as role models.
