PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lisa M. Diamond, Pansexuality, Gender Role

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3121
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

Surveys involve self-selection of participants (are the people who answer the sex questionnaire a representative sample?) Direct observations (animals) may not generalize to humans. Henry havelock ellis (england, 1896 - 1928), clelia duel mosher (united states, 1892) Results questioned prevailing victorian social norms: people"s views were not re ected in their sexual behaviour, women experienced both sexual desire and orgasm. Alfred kinsey began collecting data in 1938: was a university professor teaching a brand new course in the controversial topic of sex education (little available data) Developed extensive interview questions covering 9 areas: socioeconomic, marital history, sex education, physiology, nocturnal sex dreams, masturbation, heterosexual activity, homosexual activity, and sexual contact with animals. 17 500 interviews were done, over 5000 men and women in the nal sample used for conclusions. Results were obtained mostly from well-educated white protestants from indiana: cannot be generalized to the u. s. population.