Gender and society

• HUMAN SEXUALITY the way people experience and express themselves sexually, it involves biological, psychological physical, erotic, emotional, social spiritual feelings and behavior
• DEVIANT MORAL someone or something that deviates from a norm especially: a person who differs markedly (as in social adjustment or behavior) from what is considered normal or acceptable
• Two types of sexual activity:

  Solitary Activity

  Sociosexual Activity
• Coitus, the insertion of the penis into the vagina, is viewed by society quite differently depending upon the marital status of the individuals.
• Solitary activity Self-masturbation (autoerotic) is self-stimulation with the intention of causing sexual arousal and, generally, orgasm (sexual climax)
• Sociosexual activity

  By far the greatest amount of sociosexual activity is heterosexual activity between only one male and one female
• 5 Types of sensorium.

  Visual

  Touch

  Auditory

  Sense of smell

  Taste
• A sensorium is the apparatus of an organism's perception considered as a whole, the "seat of sensation" where it experiences, perceives, and interprets the environments within which it lives.
• Visual stimulus is one of the main ways humans are sexually aroused.
• Touch is thought to be the first sense that humans develop, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived.
• An aphrodisiac is a substance alleged to increase libido, sexual libido, desire sexual attraction, or sexual behavior.
• The tastes that we perceive are a two-phase chemical reaction that involves both our mouth and throat (taste) as well as our nose (smell).
• Kissing is one of the most arousing things that people can engage in sexual simulation and sexual arousal
• fellatio: the sexual activity of sucking or moving the tongue across the penis in order to give pleasure and excitement
• Behavior refers to ACTIONS These are things that we do, both OVERT (observable) or COVERT (not readily observable by the naked eye).
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 3 components: • Affect (Emotions and Feelings) • Behavior (Actions) • Cognition (Thought process)
• sexual behaviors are actions that humans agree to interpret as an expression of their sexual motivations or intentions.
• Two types or Erotic:

  Primary Erotic

  Secondary Erotic
• sexual behaviors are actions that humans agree to interpret as an expression of their sexual motivations or intentions.
• After an orgasm, the body also releases higher levels of a hormone called prolactin which is known to play a key role in sleep.
• The human body releases powerful hormones in the brains of men and women during sexual activity, including the neurohormones oxytocin and vasopressin.
• EROGENOUS ZONES

  Is an area of the human body that has heightened sensitivity, the stimulation of which may generate a sexual response, such as relaxation, sexual fantasies, sexual arousal and orgasm.
• EROGENOUS ZONES

  Penis Testicles Clitoris Vagina Nipples Anus
• Heteroerotic behavior - sexual behaviors oriented to the other sex
• NON-COPULATORY sexual behaviors can be hugging, kissing, and caressing.
• ejaculation" or the release of the sperm
• These sexual disorders occur only in females: female orgasmic disorder female sexual interest/arousal disorder genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder