1. Chapter 1 Perspectives on Sexuality

2. Sexual Intelligence
Four components of sexual intelligence, which help us make responsible decision about our sexual behavior based on our personal values:
Self-understanding
Interpersonal sexual skills
Scientific knowledge
Biological sexual orientation, what happens during arousal, how to enhance pleasure
Consideration of the cultural context of sexuality
Pro-life, pro choice

3. Studying Sexuality: A Psychosocial Orientation
A Psychosocial Orientation takes into account
Psychological factors
Social conditioning factors (taboos, norms, roles)
Biological factors

4. How Important is Sex in Your Life? Global Perspectives
Pfizer Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors: The study surveyed more than 26,000 people in 28 countries.

5. Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Islamic Middle East
Based on beliefs of Muhammad
Sex enjoyed by both sexes
Women inherently more sexual than men; this power contained by veils, segregation, female circumcision
Oppression of women and many sexually related restrictions stem from patriarchal cultural traditions and fundamentalist sects, not from religion and the teaching of the Qur’an.

6. Cross-Cultural Perspectives: China
Ancient history promoted sexual activity but with Confucianism came stricter sexual attitudes.
Sexual conservatism with communist rule (1949)
Lack of basic information about sexuality
Sex outside of marriage and frequent sex within marriage discouraged
Almost no STDS
Current trends: increasing rates of pre-marital sex; increasing STDs; slightly more open to homosexuality; still lack of sexual knowledge and safe-sex skills.

7. Penile-vaginal intercourse Male and Female Gender Roles
Our Cultural Legacy
Sex for Procreation
Penile-vaginal intercourse
Male and Female Gender Roles

8. Sexuality in the Western World: Judeo-Christian Perspective
Ancient Hebrews
Rigid gender roles but sex as profound experience
Christianity
Spirituality through celibacy; sex as sinful
Contradictory images of women emerged
Virgin Mary: compassionate, pure, & unattainable
Eve: temptress

9. Sex-Positive Shift
Protestant Reformation
Enlightenment; scientific rationalism
Temporary increase in respect for women
Value of sex in marriage, functions beyond procreation

10. Sexual Attitudes and the Victorian Era
Women’s role constrained; women as asexual
Emotional & physical distance between husband and wife
Prostitution flourished
Continued polarized view of women as Madonna or whore
Mosher’s research contradicts prevailing view: finding Victorian women to experience sexual desire, enjoying intercourse, and experiencing orgasm

11. 20th Century Sexuality
Social movements: suffrage movement; temperance movement; civil rights movement; lesbian & gay movement
World War II: Roles were expanded & more flexible
Postwar return to stricter roles
1960s movement for gender equality
1980s and AIDS

12. The Media and Sexuality
Television
News, advice, and educational programs
Increased access to sexual material
Cable and music videos
Advertising
Magazines
The Internet and Wireless Technology

13. Ads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhiaq6Nzbe4 Bud Light Yoga
Axe

14. Sexual Taboos and Television
The evolution of broken taboos on TV.