PSY354H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Polyamory, Transsexual, Spermatozoon
27 May 2014
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Understanding structure and function of your genitals organs, and those of your partners. Learning more about how people communicate on sexual topics. Learning about sexual diversity will encourage you to be more accepting of unusual sexual desires and behaviours (in others or self) For a long time it meant male or female and not used as a term for sexual intercourse. 18th century sex started to broaden & genital anatomy was added to the term. 19th century, sex involved sexual attraction, sexual behaviour. People began to have their own definition of the word. It was a phenomenon bc ppl had different definitions of the word, it was always changing and it varied greatly. Before it was known as copulation, and now as sex (cleaner word: made love) Social scientists changed the word sex to gender. > gender: collection of cognitive, behavioural, personality differences btwn men and women. > may last a few minutes or several decads.
