Question: Why are all your theories related to sex? Answer: I get asked this question a lot. People incorrectly assume I am "obsessed" with sex. Some even assume my theories are derived from the complicated life I had. There are assumptions that my relationship with my mother had an impact on my sex related theories. Another theory people have about me is that my obession with sex is due to the topic being a taboo at the time. This is somewhat true. I geneinly believe sex plays a large part in our psychology: our personalitities, the people we grow to become, our relationship with those around us, etc. It bothers me when people question why I am "obsessed" with sex. There might be some truth to this, but my theories come from more solid bases. I would like to ask those people if they have paid attention to any of my other theories. I am the father of psychology, specifically psychoanalysis. I introduced the idea of an unconcious mind. The very well known id, ego, and super ego were introduced by me. I described the mind as …show more content…
I feel very close to these two theories because I can relate to these. The impact sex has on out society is very prominant and vast. My theory of psychosexual development is the reason people say I am so obssesed with sex. There might be some truth to that, but if you put aaside the preconcieved notions you have of my theory and myself, it is clear to see the crucial effect sex has on our society. If you were to list the basic human necessities, sex would follow immediatrly after food and water. This is why I have come up with the following stages found in psychosexual development: (1) oral, (2) anal, (3) phallic, (4) latent, (5) genital. Although I understand how my theories could be considered controversial, I wish that people could see the truth and reality in them. I wish that my other theories could get just as much attention as
In a busy and complicated landscape of sexuality and gender, it is generally recognized that children need instruction in how to behave. Unfortunately, the way that adults wish young people to be introduced to sexuality is governed by diverse worldviews and values, and the subject is seen as so important that this disparity leaves little room for neutrality, much less reasoned compromise. In many cases, the education of children in sexuality is regarded on all sides as a life-and-death issue, involving fundamental assumptions about the role of public and private institutions and even the very stability of society, to say nothing of the potential risks to individuals. As When Sex Goes to School puts it, there is very little within the domain of American politics and the infamous “culture wars” that is not touched by or based in the realm of sexuality and gender, and sex education is an arena where each side seeks to have its values publicly established for the benefit of students.
In class we defined “culture” as, “an organized system of learned beliefs and behaviors made manifest by groups distinctive from one another. Culture is not innate but does rest on the biological base of complex symbolic capacity. Culture is primarily transmitted through language, it is cumulative, includes artifacts as well as attitudes and is humankind 's chief adaptive mechanism”. As humans and citizens of society when we think of culture this definition probably doesn’t come to mind to the average individual, however, we still recognize how important culture is and how much it affects us. Human Sexuality was a very riveting class that exposed me to different realms of culture that I had no idea about.
Peil et al. (2003) studied this phenomenon in detail. For dominant markers, five different polymorphic configurations are possible in a single cross when female and male progeny are considered separately and they found four of them. For 43 AFLP markers, complete co-segregation between the AFLP fragment and male sex was observed. Twenty-three sex-linked AFLP markers showed other segregation patterns. There was also recombination between sex-linked AFLP markers. Peil et al. (2003) found a recombination rate of 25% between sex and the completely linked AFLP marker loci AGA*GAA510 and AGA*AAT330 on X as well as on Y.
All three of these sex educators also spoke to different elements that make the current high school sex education system damaging to its students. Ms. Corrado related: " I think one of the big things is fear mongering around STIs. Which leads to higher incident rates instead of actually reducing incident rates, because fear will not actually stop them from "doing it", but it just leads to people not knowing safer sex techniques and not knowing they are transmitting [STIs].” This supports the CDC report mentioned earlier, about the increasing number of students engaging in sexual activity and becoming infected with STIs, despite being in abstinence-based programs. For Ms. Basler-Francis the main issue was something else entirely: she believes
Freud was known for having the inclinations to follow every mental issue back to sexual issues. Despite the fact that lone parts of his hypothesis of psychosexual advancement are being acknowledged by standard analysts, Freud's hypothesis of the Oedipal Complex has turned out to be extremely well known in the way of life. That hypothesis is the critical for sexual association with the parent of the inverse sex and a corresponding feeling of contention with the parent of a similar sex. Sigmund Freud acquainted us with the idea in his "Interpretation of Dreams" in 1899. Psychoanalysis is a system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements. Freud developed this theory all because of his study of the unconscious mind. And that the unconscious mind will govern your mind and behavior to a greater than anyone would ever think would be done. The whole purpose of of the psychoanalysis theory is to to turn the unconscious conscious. That's what psychoanalysis is and how it was developed (McLeod, 2014).
From a Freudian perspective human development is based on psychosexual theory. From a psychosexual perspective maturation of the sex drives underlies stages of personality development (Shaffer et al., 2010). Ultimately, Freud believed that sex was the most important instinct and any mental disturbance revolved around sexual conflicts that were suppressed from childhood. Furthermore, Freud believed that parents permitting too much or too little gratification of sexual needs led
The goal of this study is to examine the relationship among sexting behaviors, relationship satisfaction, and adult attachment style in young adults. Specifically, this study will focus on a variety of factors that can influence, or are significantly related to sexting, such as individual attachment style, gender age and satisfaction in the relationship.
In the reading “Sexual Desire and Gender” by Pepper Schwartz and Virginia E. Rutter, it talks about three views on sexuality. These three views were biology, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, and social constructionism. While all three plays a part in sexual desire and gender, each differed in the way it influence a person. The reading starts off with biology, the natural occurrence in which humans are deigned to respond to other humans. Biology plays a major role in sexuality, from how humans have sexual encounters with each other, to how the body responds to sexual arousal. All biological research on sex has in common is that not all choices are actually choices, but are dictated by the body. In the reading it states the biological explanations of sexual desire concentrate on the role of hormones, testosterone in men and estrogen in women. In men testosterone is the enabler in a man’s sexual arousal, but is not responsible for a man’s sexual taste, desires, or behavior might be. Estrogen, which is associated with the menstrual cycle, is known as the female hormone. Some biology evidence findings shows that sexual desire in women may be linked to the impact of hormones level changes during her reproductive cycle. William Master and Virginia Johnson, who studied the human sexual arousal system, focused on the body rather than the social and relationship in which sex occurs. In their findings they found there was a sexual difference between men and women in the timing of the excitement cycle. The difference is that male sexual physiology has a quicker trigger, while the female is built up over time.
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.
I first learned about the birds and the bees by my grandmother giving me “the talk”! It was completely horrible and embarrassing at the time but in the long run it was better to know than to be completely in the dark about the situation. My parents never talked to me about sex. In middle school, I remember having to complete a comprehensive sex education program. Hopefully, sex education programs have become more effective today. I felt at the time it wasn’t a very informative program and could have used more structure. The key is to provide students/teens with as much information as possible on the subject matter.
There is a 4:1 boy to girl ratio found in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This gender disparity, although heavily studied, is little understood. There are two main theories that attempt to explain this gender disparity: the extreme male brain theory, which is supported by research on fetal testosterone, X-chromosomes, Y-chromosomes, and the female protective effect; and the biased diagnostic criteria theory, which is also supported by many research studies that explore phenotypic differences in the symptoms of boys and girls with ASD. Ultimately, the gender disparity is best explained by a merging of these two theories, in a model that shows that there are genetic differences that lead males to be more likely to develop
Reflecting on this question, the influences of religion, science and media that may have an affect on the way I might view or think in regards to my sexuality, I find very interesting; the author’s view that we as individuals or society are influenced solely by these outside sources in our sexuality, my thoughts are different towards this. As a youth and young adult I would say yes there might have been a slight influence directed by the media (music), but today as an adult I feel no influence at all from theses forms of direct sources to my sexuality. This could be because society is over run and conditioned by the media and what is constantly in our faces, by television, radio, advertisement and other forms that we do not notice anymore becoming
Sex, gender, and sexuality are words that are constantly are been not understood properly and also misused by societies. But scholars through research and history have come up with basic ways to distinguish what each term means. Starting with the term sex, sex is known as a biological structure of a person (Renzetti 2). There also is another way that sex defined, some believe that the definition of is the meaning the society and each individual gave it, “or the various ways we express our sexual natures” (Hoffert 395). Next the term gender can be distinguished because it uses the term sex as a source for creating a social grouping which then is applied to each individual (Renzetti 2). Using these definitions scholars are able to distinguish between these terms, but definitions alone might not be enough for some scholars to distinguish the differences between these terms, so there are some key ways to tell the differences. Starting with sex and gender, one 's sex is static, but their gender can be dynamic. Gender is part of everyday life meaning everyone has to watch what they do in public and even at home, the society has an expectation of how men and women are supposed to behave or act and if the expectations are not achieved then that person is considered strange or abnormal (Lorber 54-55). Whereas the term sex is concrete, at least for now, from the moment a baby is born its chromosome is decided whether it’s XX or XY. Chromosomes can’t be changed through surgery and
One thing is for certain, the desire to procreate lurks in all of our brains. Many of the things we do are because of a psychological mandate to reproduce, yet we have discovered we can “have the milk without buying the cow.” We are rewiring the pleasure centers in our brains to respond to the physical aspects of sex and seem to be disregarding the emotional aspects. This has some ramifications.
Individuals sexuality is each unique in aspects of lifespan development. Some people decide to be with the same gender as they are and some decide that that way of life is not for them. Why though is it like that, why are some people attracted to members of their own sex whereas others are attracted to members of the opposite sex?