Sexuality

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Sexuality

• Sexual Abuse
• Frequency
• Orientation
• Evolutionary Psychology

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Sexual Exploration in Childhood

• Not a problem, but we tend to treat it as such
• Incest-sibling on sibling, not desirable but
  relatively common
  

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Parental Abuse

• Devasting
• Child considers role, not biology
• For girls, 17 of stepdaughters were molested by
  step dad
  
• 2 by biological dad

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Book vs. Colorado Law

• Text says 5 years age difference is the standard
  
  
• Legally, it is 4 years older
• In Co, if NOT IN POSITION OF TRUST then at age 15
  you can consent

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Sexual Abuse

• At least 15 of girls, possibly 20
• 5 of boys
• Personal opinion it is higher than that in boys

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Who does it?

• Men.
• 94 of abusers of girls, 84 of those who abuse
  boys.
  
• If victim is care about gender

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Parental warning

• Most abusers are uncles, granddads, cousins NOT
  STRANGERS
  
• They are also priests, pastors, scoutmasters,
  skating rink owners, arcade owners, etc.
  

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One final word on prevention

• Talk to your kids
• Tell them you will believe them love them no
  matter what
  
• Then, if they tell you, believe them love them
  no matter what

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Date Rape

• Most forced or coerced sex is between
  acquaintances
  
• 54 of college women report coersion
• 15 had been raped

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Frequency of sexual behavior

• 3 things matter in frequency of partnered sex
• How old you are
• Married? Or cohabitating?
• How long youve been together

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How Often?

• 1/3 aged 18-59 have sex w/ a partner 2x a week
• 1/3 a few times a month
• 1/3 a few times year or have no partners at all

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Married, CoH, vs. noncohabiting
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Satisfaction

• 75 of men say they always have orgasms
• 29 of women do
• Males reporting physically/emotionally pleased w/
  sex life-40
  
• Femalesthe same

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Men are slightly more acceptant

• Of premarital/extramarital sex
• Sexual permissiveness
• Frequency of intercourse
• And less guilty about all of it

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Sexual Orientation

• We can still blame Mom
• Significance of Xq28

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Prevalence of Gay Men

• Per Kinsey 13
• NORC 2.8 (identified as gay)
• Playboy Found. Survey 2
• Per Hamer Pattatucci 4
• Sex w/ man puberty 9 (NORC)

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Lesbian Prevalence

• Per Kinsey 7
• Per NORC 1.4
• Per Playboy Found. 1
• Per Hamer Pattatucci 2.5

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Lesbians

• More likely to have tried both
• May claim it is just one special woman
• May go in and out of expression of sexuality

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Bisexual

• Probably not a continuum as once thought
• Not really studied yet
• NORC survey .8 of men
• .5 of women

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Changing Orientation

• 1950s American Scientists
• -cut off lesbians breasts/cut out uteri
• -gave estrogen injections
• The women remained lesbians.

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U.S. Medical Experiments

• Castrated gay men and/or lobotomized them
• Tried aversion therapy on men women
• No one changed orientation

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A.P.A.

• Listed homosexuality as a disease until 1973
• Claim made that psychologists could identify gays
  by psych tests
  
• They couldnt. (Hooker, 1957).

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Leading authorities

• Dr. Money says to change someones orientation
  remove their brain
  
• Dr. Berlin says you can NOT change orient. but
  with extreme measures you can change their
  behavior

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Xq28

• Gene for gayness location
• Officially known as Gay-I
• Inherited from the mother

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Gay gene is threatening to

• Conservatives, church people
• Means gayness is not chosen
• Means they are genetically wired to sin

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Gay gene is threatening to

• Liberals
• Because it means that people are NOT infinitely
  malleable
  
• Most liberals are committed to an environmental
  position e.g. we can change anything

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Gays themselves

• Because once identified, it could be changed
• Should gene therapy be allowed to make the world
  less diverse?