Chapter 8. Understanding Sexuality, Part 1
I. Psychosexual Development in Young Adulthood
1. Parent input:innoculation theory ofsex ed:once isenough;but child req freq boost
2. Mom responsible for sex ed: child learn sex issue men no talk unless problem
3. influence on use condoms: parental communication does have much impact
4. strong bond w/ parents:lessens teen’s dep on peer approval & bonding of sex rel
5. peer pressure:have sex, even if not satisfy; lg # make decision age 14 or younger
6. sexual script: set of expectations of how one is to behave sexually as male or fem
a. girls learn no look genitals:no explore¬ know much about; worry vag odor
b. women learn be sex passive: should want love;men want sex, is for them
c. men should know what women want:even if fem no tell;man must arouse
d. fem no talk @ sex easily:taught not to since shouldn’t have strong sex feel
e. Men’s needs come first: his desire over hers, his orgasm over hers
f. Fem learn only 1 way for orgasm: vaginal from penile stimulation
g. Tenderness/compassion no masculine:men no express doubts;be assertive
h. Man initiates sex&gives fem orgasm: real man not need fem tell what like
i. Man machine wanting sex:no matter what he is doing, wants&does it
j. All phys contact lead to sex: touching first step; no phys pleasure except
k. Kissing, hugging, all erotic contact leads to intercourse: sex=intercourse
l. Orgasm:more orgasms, better the sex;man failure if not;prob if req clit stim
7. Race dif in attitudes: black sex attitudes>liberal v. white, although both become >
8. gender dif: fem seen>promiscuous than men if have several concurrent partners
9. %Lesbians: 13% of fem had orgasms w/ other women, but 1-3% identify lesbian
10. %gay(Kinsey):20-37% men orgasm w/male,10% predom gay 3 years;4% exclusiv
11. %gay studies 1970-1990: 5-7%men sex contact men;4.5% exclusively gay
12. homoeroticism: attraction to members of the same sex
13. coming out: publicly acknowledging gayness
14. homophobia: irrational fear of gays/lesbians, but not all anti-gay clinically phobic
15. anti gay prejudice:replaces”homophobia”; unreasonable or biased but not nec fear
a. 3 stages:1 offensive language, 2 discrimination, 3 violence (Allport 1958)
b. Matthew Shepard&Billy Jack Gaither:killers target,brutalize since gay
c. Hate crimes:1/7 based on sex orient;1/5 homos punched,kicked,beaten,hit
d. Threats:44% of gays face;94% victimization:verb abuse,chased,spat on
e. 3 causes: 1 insecure @ sexuality; 2 fundementalist rel;3 ignorance of homo
16 Bisexual %: Janus&Janus 1993: 5%men 3%fem identify; other survey only 1%
a. stigmatized: by both homos and heteros because reject both homo and hetero
II. Psychosexual Development in Middle Adulthood
1. passionate intensity wains:due habit,conflict,work, children; redefine as intimacy
2. sexuality becomes less central: communicate, intimacy,share interests greater
3. neutering: by age 50 fem seen by society as go thru meno;must reject stereotypes
4. sex diff approach 50:men fear loss sexuality but not attractiveness;fem opposite
a. fantasies: <effective for arousal, but phys stim remain effective men,fem
b. sex responsiveness: grow in fem until 30’s/early 40’s;same level to 60’s+;
in men, declines from 20’s;by 50, ready requires >time,stimulation,<firm
III. Psychosexual Development in Later Adulthood
1. fear impotence: aged men worry;1study--31% elderly men able to have erection
2. fem >masculine: regarded as age; younger fem “beautiful”; older fem “handsome”
3. frequency of sex: ½ over 60, 24% over 76, had intercourse prev month;avg 4 times
a. gender, race: no differences
4 decrease sex after age 75: significant because health—heart disease,etc.--interferes