Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Sexual Activity, Sexual Dysfunction, Sex Organ

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Beth Fischer

Document Summary

Sex refers to sexual anatomy and sexual behavior. Gender the state of being male or female. Gender roles (the ways in which males and females are expected to behave) exert a powerful influence on the way people behave sexually. Sexual behavior behavior that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm. Religion is a course of values and ethics regarding sexuality. The ancient greeks openly acknowledged both heterosexuality and homosexuality in their society. Fifteenth century christians believed wet dreams", sexual dysfunction, and sexual lust were seen to be caused by witchcraft. Muslims believe sexual intercourse in one of the finest pleasures of life. First observed the fertilization of the egg by there sperm in sea urchins, although the ovum in the humans was not directly observed until the twentieth century. In the victorian era (late nineteenth century) norms about sexuality were extraordinarily rigid and oppressive.