Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Orgasm, Safe Sex, Oscar Hertwig

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

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Ide(cid:374)tif(cid:455) so(cid:373)e of the issues surrou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)se(cid:454)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d differe(cid:374)tiate it fro(cid:373) the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)ge(cid:374)der. (cid:863) Gender: state of being male or female. Sex: can be ambiguous (gender, sexual reproduction) and cloud our thinking about some important issues. Most undergrad students think anal and vaginal sex is sex, but only of students think that oral sex leading to orgasm is sex. Show the influences on sexuality of religion, science, the media, and the internet. Until about 100 years ago, religion provided most information about sex. Ancient greeks: heterosexuality and homosexuality: humans were double creatures with extra limb set, some were two males, some two females (gods split them up, these are homosexuals, some were male and female (heterosexual) Wet dreams due to intercourse with tiny creatures called incubi and succubae: mallus malficarum book had the theory of incubi and succubae, wet dreams, sexual dysfunction and lust = witchcraft.