Human Sex Review

Human Sexuality Review

Book Questions:

Chapter 1: What is Human Sexuality: the term human sexuality refers to the ways in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.

* The Biological Perspective (Page 21)

* The biological perspective focuses on the roles of genes, hormones, the nervous system, and other biological factors in human sexuality.

* The Evolutionary Perspective (Page 22)

* Scientists look to evolution to help explain variability.

* Species vary not only in their physical characteristics but also in their social behaviors, including their mating behavior.

* The Psychological Perspective (Page 26)

* The Psychological perspectives focus on the man psychological influences—perceptions, learning, motivation emotion, personality and so on—that affect our sexual behavior and out experience of ourselves as male or female.

* The Feminist Theory (Page 29)

* The Greek Philosopher Aristotle is said to have described a female as a deformed male.

* Feminism, otherwise known as the feminist theory are born of protest against ideas such as Aristotle’s. (Get it?)

* The Feminist Theory Challenges

* Traditional views of men as breadwinners and women as homemakers.

* Traditional views of men as political policymakers, especially since those policies affect women and children.

* Traditional views of men as sexual “aggressors” and women as sexual “gatekeepers.”

* Traditional gender roles that view men as objective and rational, and women as emotional and irrational.

* The Queer Theory (Page 30)

* A theory that challenges hetero-normativity and heterosexism.

* The Queer theory challenges a number of commonly held assumptions about gender and sexuality, such as the assumptions that heterosexuality is normal and superior to homosexuality.

Chapter 5: Sexual Arousal and Responses (Page 137)

* Aphrodisiacs: Of Spanish...