PSYC 250 Lecture 1: ch 1 & 2
Document Summary
A general term for the feelings and behaviours of human beings concerning sex. Infections transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact. Formerly called sexually transmitted diseases (stds) and venereal diseases (vd) Human sexuality is grounded in: biological functioning, emerging in each of us as we develop. Expressed within cultures through: rules about sexual contact, attitudes about moral and immoral sexuality, habits of sexual behaviour, patterns of relations between the sexes, and more. A person who engages in the scientific study of sexual behaviour. Sexologists can be from a variety of clinical or academic disciplines. If and when a person become sexual, with whom, where, and under what circumstances: decisions informed by, religious beliefs, cultural expectations, morality, love. Explicitly or subtly sexual visual media: digitally altered models" bodies and faces, and sexual content on television. Changing patterns of social communication on the internet.
