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2. Mod. 39 – Sexual Motivation
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Mod. 39 – Sexual Motivation

3. Sexual Motivation Sex is natural.
Without sex, none of us would be here.
How do scientists (or you) find out about sex?
YOU ASK!!!!!!
Sexual Motivation

4. Kinsey’s Studies
Confidential interviews with 18,000 people (in early 1950’s).
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Scale of sexuality….0 to 6 where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 homosexual and 7 is asexual.
Human sexuality varies!
Click on Kinsey to see the movie trailer.

5. Masters and Johnson Study
Click on Masters and Johnson to see a more detailed explanation of their research.
In the 1960’s William Masters and Virginia Johnson set out to explore the physiology of sex.
382 females and 312 males.
After their research was done they ran an institute that claimed to turn gay people straight.

6. Mapped out the Sexual Response Cycle
Initial Excitement
Plateau Phase
Orgasm
Resolution Phase (with refractory period).

7. We have discussed the energizing of sexual motivation but have yet to discuss its direction:
Sexual Orientation
An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own gender or the other gender.

8. How is Sexual Orientation Determined
There has been NO evidence that sexuality is socially determined.
Kids raised by gay parents are no more likely to be gay that if they were raised by hetero parents.
Thus it is likely biologically determined.

9. The Brain
Simon LeVay discovered that there is a cluster of cells in the hypothalamus that is larger in heterosexual men than in heterosexual women or homosexual men.

10. Prenatal Environment
Current research seems to point to the hormonal levels in the prenatal environment.
We have created homosexual male fruit flies and lesbian sheep!!!

11. Meyers Psychology AP Textbook Resources: The following 12 slides are the PPT notes provided by the textbook: Mod. 39 Sexual Motivation

12. The Physiology of Sex The Sexual Response Cycle
Excitement phase
Plateau phase
Orgasm
Resolution phase
Refractory period

13. The Physiology of Sex Hormones and Sexual Behavior
Effects of hormones
Development of sexual characteristics
Activate sexual behavior
Estrogen
Testosterone
The Physiology of Sex Hormones and Sexual Behavior

14. The Psychology of Sex External stimuli
Books, movies…and um…other stuff
Imagined stimuli
Dreams
Sexual fantasies

15. Levels of Analysis for Sexual Motivation

16. Levels of Analysis for Sexual Motivation

17. Levels of Analysis for Sexual Motivation

18. Levels of Analysis for Sexual Motivation

19. Adolescent Sexuality Teen Pregnancy
Ignorance 01
Minimal communication about birth control 02
Guilt related to sexual activity 03
Alcohol use 04
Mass media norms of unprotected promiscuity 05

20. Adolescent Sexuality Sexually Transmitted Infections
Statistics of STIs
Teen abstinence
High intelligence
Religious engagement
Father presence
Participation in service learning programs
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21. Sexual Orientation
Sexual orientation - our enduring sexual attraction toward members of either our own sex (homosexual) or the other sex (heterosexual).
Studies in both Europe and the United States suggest that about 3 to 4% of men and 1 to 2% percent of women are homosexual.
2000 U.S. Census suggests that 2.5 percent of the population is gay or lesbian.
Women’s sexual orientation tends to be less strongly felt and potentially more fluid and changing than men’s.
Women are somewhat more likely than men to feel and act on bisexual attractions.