PSY 3122 Lecture 1: 3122 Class Notes (pre-midterm)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Yaroslavna Kadulina

Document Summary

Focuses on sexual messages you have received from various sources good, bad and neutral. Media plays a large role in shaping our norms and our identities. Media helps us learn what is normal" and what is expected of us. Pornographic videos vs disney, some people do sex before seeing it, some see porn before sex so they have a certain expectation, some see disney before growing up and wait for prince. A history of sex and advertising in western culture. In some periods (victorian era) media that referenced sexuality had to be very subtle because of the in uence of religion. Concerns about growing population if procreation kept increasing. Concerns about sexual activity leading to a population explosion, side by side with the fact that selling contraceptive was illegal, meant that advertising contraceptives needed to be treated very delicately. Sexually explicit material would lead to an increase in the population that would overtax diminishing natural resources.