PSYCO405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fornication, Havelock Ellis, Margaret Mead

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO405
• Professor: Andrew Haag

Document Summary

Refers to physical activities involving our sex organs. Refer to sex for anatomical and biological terms, gender for cultural and social category. Erotic- arousing sexual feeling or desires is also related to sex: gender. One"s personal, social, and legal status as m or f. *gender roles- complex clusters of the ways males and females are expected to behave within a given culture: human sexuality refers to the ways we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings, the study of human sexuality. Interdisciplinary e. g. , anthropology, biology, medicine, sociology, psychology. Promoted by leading organizations: the sex information and education council of canada (sieccan, the canadian sex research forum (csrf, sex as leisure. When it is voluntary and not seen as work. Can reach sexual self-actualization where one is comfortable with their sexuality. Hedonism- the hedonist is guided by the pursuit of pleasure, not by whether a particular behavior is morally or situationally justified.