Sexuality: Cultural myths

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Sexuality Cultural myths

• I. Male Anatomy
• II. Female Anatomy

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Male Sexuality

• Cultural Myths and Facts

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Psalms 13913-16

• For you created my inmost being
• you knit me together in my mothers womb.
• I praises you because I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I
  know that full well.
• My frame was not hidden from you when I was made
  in the secret place.
• When I was woven together in the depths of the
  earth,
• your eyes saw my unformed body.
• All the days ordained for me were written in your
  book before one of them came to be.

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Some Homologous Portions of the Genitalia

• Embryonic Source Adult Male Adult Female
• Indifferent gonad Testes Ovary
• Mullerian duct Degenerates Fallopian tubes
• Remnants on appendix Uterus
• testis, bit of vaginalike Portion of vagina
• tissue on bladder
• Wolffian duct Epididymis Degenerates
• Vas deferens Remnant on ovaries
• Seminal vesicle
• Genital tubercle Glans Penis Clitoris
• Genital swelling Scrotum Labia majora

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Male Anatomy Cultural Myths and Facts

• 1. Penis
• 2. Circumcision
• 3. Testicles
• 4. Sperm
• 5. Erection
• 6. Ejaculation

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Penis Myths and Facts

• 1. Penis size is related to nose, hand or foot
  size.
• Flaccid penises range from 2.5 to 4.5 inches
• Erect penises range from 4.7 to 9.2 inches
• 2. Penis shrinks in size if not used enough
• 3. Penis can be trapped in the vagina
• 4. Kama Sutra - hares, bulls, or horses
• penis size is related to ability for
  lovemaking

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Circumcision Myths and Facts

• 1. Circumcision - removal of the foreskin
• Latin word - cutting round
• Genesis 1710-13 - as covenant between God
  and Abraham
• 2. Reasons for circumcision
• Religious and cultural
• Hygienic, for cleanliness
• 3. Circumcision Ceremonies Aborigines,
• Polynesians - superincision

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Circumcision Myths and Facts (continues)

• 4. Arguments against circumcision
• unknown function of foreskin, unnecessary trauma,
  impacts sensitivity
• 5. Does circumcision affect a mans sexual
  behavior?
• 6. What about the high cancer rate in women who
  have intercourse with uncircumcised men?
• 7. How do men feel about circumcision?

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Testicles Myths and Facts

• Testicles - or testes
• - produce sperm and hormones
• - Latin word - testis meaning witness or
• testimony
• A symbol of virility results in issues of
  sexism

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Sperm Myths and Facts

• 1. Sperm
• takes 10 weeks to develop
• averages about 60 um (0.00237 inches)
• consists of head, neck, midpiece, and tail

• 2. Myths about power in the sperm
• Part of blood system
• Indian Tantric practices
• Silly notions of athletes
• Running out of sperm
• Onanism (Genesis 388-10)

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Erection Facts

• From nonhuman primates erection is symbol of
  power and aggression
• Penis becomes filled with blood in response to
  physical, psychological stimulation or both
• Spongy tissues
• corpus cavernosa,
• corpus spongiosum

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Erection Center

• Is located in the lower spinal cord
• Receives input from two areas
• Brain
• Penis

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Unusual stimulation

• Key Erection is basically a spinal reflex
• Real sex occurs between your EARS (brain) and not
  only what is going on between your legs.

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Erection Center final thoughts

• Clinical situation
• With heavy drinkers
• Morning erections
• Lack of morning erections is rare,
• Signaling a form of impotence

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Ejaculation Facts

• A spinal reflex
• Two phases
• Emission sperm and seminal fluid are transported
  to the urethra
• Expulsion semen is expelled out of urethra from
  contractions of bulbocavernosus muscle

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Ejaculation Facts

• Force of Ejaculation is influenced by
• Age, time lapse between ejaculations, and degree
  of sexual arousal
• Ejaculation is not equivalent to orgasm
• Orgasm intensely personal, pleasurable kind of
  explosion or releasing flooding through the body

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Ejaculation Facts

• Detumescence
• Penile arteries constrict, reducing blood flow
  into the penis
• Spongy columns are emptied
• Penis returns to flaccid state