Lecture

  • Sexual Response
    • Objective: physical resposne
    • Subjective: emotional & cognitive response
    • Desire --> Excitement --> Plateau --> Orgasm --> Resolution
  • Sexual Desire
    • Testosterone doesn’t predict sex drive beyond minimum threshold (men and for women pre-menopause)
  • Sexual orientation: definition
    • An enduring pattern of cognitive, motivational, and behavioural tendencies that regulates the experience, conduct, and expression of sexuality
  • Dimension for Sexual Orientation
    1. Romantic attraction: 纯爱战士, love and emotion
    2. Sexual arousal: physiological response
    3. Sexual attraction: 性幻想
    4. Sexual behaviour: interaction
    5. Sexual identity: descriptive label and the emotional reactions
  • Unsafe sex
    • Underestimation of risk (underestimate of risk, illusion of invulnerability)
    • Faulty decision making (sexual arousal, intoxication)
    • Pluralistic Ignorance
    • Inequalities in power
    • Abstinence education
    • Low self-control
    • Decreased intimacy and pleasure
  • Sexual Coercion
  • Self-determination theory
    • Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness

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