Human Sexuality and Masturbation Good Morning

Relate value systems and critical thinking to your sexual decision making before and after this course

This is Damian form your Monday's & Wednesday's 12:30 pm class , it came to my attention that there seemed to be some problems relating to the test we just took on chapter 2 of the Human Sexuality class. Personally, im under the impression that i took the new exam although it had no timer applied to it and some of the question's apparent responses seem a little contradictional. On this questions for example # 1; "Which of the following statements regarding the desire phase of sexual response is true?" , #2; In which of the following areas would Masters and Johnson's research on sexual response be least helpful?, #3; Which of the following most accurately describes the plateau phase?, the book clearly states that this is

Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.

Answer: Self esteem plays a large role in my sexual choices. I think many people make the mistake of equating another person’s love for you to the love you feel towards yourself but they are two very different things. Early on, I found that I had low confidence and was participating in sex partly out of curiosity but also partly because I thought it would make me more attractive, or cooler or more dynamic. I also thought that when my partner loved what I did, that meant I was doing something right and now I have a good reason to love myself. Unfortunately I viewed it as a tool to make myself “better” however I do think that the

When I was only 11 years old, my male friends would ask me if I have ever masturbated. I had no idea what it was and quite frankly I was not really interested. It was the in thing to say that a guy was weird if he did not masturbate. Because of the continued conversations on this topic and finally felt the urge to step in and ask what it was. One of the guys mentioned everything about it, and that he had gone on to a specific website to find that out. Of course, it was foreign to me because never did I hear that term in my life. My friend had not heard it either, so he went online to research for himself. Yes, I understand that things such as that are difficult to commute to a young child, but it is better to inform children at a younger age, because then their minds will believe what is heard. Children do what their parents do and say, so if parents informed their child at a young age, they would probably not want to rummage around for explicit material on their own. He even went on to say things about imagining things about girls, which he called: ‚dirteh tinking.‛ Lust of the mind is something ever teenager has experienced or will experience. They will have an attraction to the opposite sex some time in their life. However, if parents would only take the time to mention the crucial issues, and the effects, teens would probably hate it in their minds. Joseph Knable, Sex and the Single Guy author, states that "If we tolerate lust, we give sin a foot in the door and

April Haynes lectured and wrote about masturbation and sexual pleasure in the 19th century. She covered the history behind the women-led reformation of sexual pleasure and desire in women, and spoke about the anti-masturbation movement, which was surprisingly lead by women in the same era. I found these talks to be very interesting in that they covered a discrepancy between the wonder of sex, and the female reintroduction to knowledge about their body, and anti-masturbation, which was an ideology enforced by women of that time.

Over the years, both individuals and researchers have arrived at the conclusion that normal adults need both quantity and quality sexual activity. While each person may differ

Alfred C. Kinsey is regarded as the first major figure in the research of human sexuality, more specifically masturbation. Kinsey was groundbreaking in his research on sexuality and made it possible to talk about sex. In the early 2000s, masturbation has become more accepted for both males and females yet there is still a stigma about discussing it openly (Wells, 2006). Societies and Cultures views on masturbation have changed over time and vary depending on who you are, where you are from, and the family you grew up in. Religious views on masturbation are more rigid and unchanging, unless the religion itself changes.

Sexual activity among teens is on the rise as well. This statistic has been reported numerous times for the past 25 years. Many theorists believe the root of this stems from exposure to sex on television. Dr. Rebecca Collins and her associates conducted a survey of teens age 12-17. The researchers gathered a list of the 23 most popular television programs and rated them based on the program’s sexual content. Teens were then surveyed twice, one year apart, on their viewing habits of these specific 23 programs, their attitudes toward sex, as well as their own actual sexual activity. The results were astonishing. In her discussion, Dr. Collin revealed, “Predicted probabilities showed that watching the highest levels of sexual content effectively doubled the next-year likelihood of initiating intercourse and greatly increased the probability of advancing 1 level in noncoital activity. In other words, 12-year-olds who watched the highest levels of

thousands of them start having sex every year without asking their parents. In the United

All sorts of ghastly fates await the wanton masturbator, who can hope at worst to land himself in Satan’s crib and at best to collect a plethora of neurological defects, God’s special gift to miscreants. Some diseases traditionally associated with masturbation have passed gracefully out of our cultural consciousness, while unlucky Victorians believed their me-time would lead to dulled intelligence, lifelong impotence, and hairy Sasquatch palms. This one you’ve probably heard of, even if your precious twenty-first-century eyes recognized it instantly as myth: that masturbation turns you blind. It doesn’t, but a lot of people thought it did for a very long time. A lot of people still

A survey showed on the average a male masturbates five times per week. Statitistics show that all males masturbate and four out of five females masturbate. Masturbation is a solution for sexual tension and self-stimulation. Some sex therapist believe tha tpeople who don not masturbate during adolexcence may be missing an important element in their sexual development. Also, sexuality is closey tied in with religion, morality, and culture. These three things are important aspects of a person’s life. So, in that case sexuality is a big deal, because it is hard enough to be a teenager without the worries about sex and fantasies.

One of Sigmund Freud's ( a very well known psychologist) theories on sexuality was that children are born with sexual urges, and there are five stages of it. It is called the psychosexual theory. It starts from age one, and ends around the age of eighteen. It is simply human nature to have sexual urges and desires. Some experience these desires sooner than other, and some later than most.

1. Discuss 4 types of scientific methodology used in human sexuality research, including strengths and weaknesses.

Throughout history it is evident that human sexuality changes do to religious, governmental and societal influences. The perception of human sexuality has gone through many changes such as being very open and unlabeled activity; to being very “conservative” and a topic that shouldn’t be talked about in public or at all. In any case, human sexuality has always been a topic of interest because humans are sexual beings who want to understand the consciousness of themselves as male or female and see their personal response when encountered in erotic experiences with other individuals. Unlike many other species whose sexual force is strictly for reproduction, human’s sexual drive seems to be driven by many factors that intertwine with each other which leads to very different outcomes. Do to these obscure human emotions and personal gratification, sex is always shown every culture’s art, literature, social norms, and laws.