Class Introduction and Perspectives on Sexuality

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Class Introduction and Perspectives on Sexuality

• Chapter 1
• Lecture 1
• Psyc 1633

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Getting to Know You

• Youll have 10 minutes to fill out the form Ive
  given you.
• Only one signature per person for the questions
• You must get ALL four signatures of people youve
  helped
• First person to finish gets 10 extra credit
  points

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Why Study Sexuality?

• Personal to increase health, happiness, and
  personal development
• Interpersonal to improve relationships
• Societal to change the quality of the global
  village
• Can you think of any other reasons?

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Talking about Sexuality

• What kinds of words do you feel comfortable
  hearing/saying?
• What kinds of words do you feel uncomfortable
  hearing/saying?
• Are there any words that you dont feel have a
  place in this type of class?

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Psychosocial Orientation of Text

• psychological factors
• social factors
• Sociobiological Theory focuses on how our biology
  and biological history influences our sexuality.
  
• DIFFERENT than psychosocial theory, because
• places more importance on biology
• patterns that increase reproductive success have
  a genetic basis
• each sex behaves in a way to increase the chance
  that they will pass on their genes

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Two Themes Opposed by our Text

• The sex for reproduction legacy
• reproduction is the only legitimate reason for
  sex
• only coitus is real sex
• The rigid distinction between male and female
  roles
• that men and women should behave differently in
  sexual situations
• What are the traditional roles for men and women?

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For Our Next Class

• Read chapter 1
• Be sure to focus on
• historical view of sex
• cross-cultural sex differences
• Fill out group preference form
• Take a look at our class web page let me know
  if youd like to see anything else!