100% tevredenheidsgarantie Direct beschikbaar na betaling Zowel online als in PDF Je zit nergens aan vast
logo-home
Eerder door jou gezocht
Eerder door jou gezocht
logo
Summary Sexuality in perspective €5,89
In winkelwagen
Snel navigeren naar
Voorbeeld
  2.  
  3. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
  4.  
  5. Communicatiewetenschappen
  6.  
  7. Sexuality in Perspective

Samenvatting

Summary Sexuality in perspective
 19 keer bekeken  0 keer verkocht

Sexuality in perspective

Voorbeeld 4 van de 75  pagina's

Document informatie

  • 20 januari 2024
  • 75
  • 2022/2023
  • Samenvatting

Onderwerpen

Geschreven voor

Alle documenten voor dit vak (1)

Verkoper

avatar-seller
ellenvanhove

Voorbeeld van de inhoud

SEXUALITY IN PERSPECTIVE
LES 1 – 23/2
INTRODUCTIE
GENERAL AIM
 To provide students with an opportunity to learn about and reflect on contemporary
 scientific approaches to and current insights in human sexuality
 Sexuality = a relevant theme in society
 Sexuality = a personal experience
 Premise = the (behavioral) expression and experience of our sexuality are influenced and
 regulated by biological factors as well as psychological, cultural and social processes, including
inter- and intra-personal norms and values


SPECIFIC AIMS
 Students will be able to:
 To be able to recognize, understand and describe the historical and cultural basis of our thinking
about human sexuality
o Our ideas now are the result of a revolution that has been going on for ages
o 1960s: the sexual revolution: our way of thinking about sexuality is a result of the openness
that was created at that time
 To be able to distinguish between major theoretical approaches to sexuality, to name and
critically reflect on their contribution to our understanding of and scientific knowledge about
sexuality
 To be able to explain how “normal” and “abnormal” sexuality are social, legal, and culturally
sensitive constructs
 To be able to understand and explain the basics of evolutionary and biological perspectiveson
human sexuality
o Want to neglect the connection between children and sexuality, however there is one 
discussion when does sexuality start? At puberty? Not necessarily
 To be able to situate sexuality within a life time perspective
 To be able to discuss the relationship between core elements of religious ethical and legal
normative
 discourse and views on sexuality, and to describe and assess their connections to different scientific
approaches
 To be able to identify and articulate their own ideas about and values, norms, and attitudes
towards sexuality
o Sometimes provocative ideas depending on different cultures
 To challenge your perspective on sexuality
Course materials
 Slides
 Extra articles, texts
 Announcements
Examen
 Written exam 50 MK vragen ongeveer 4 vragen per topic
 20 van de eerste minder van de andere proffen want bespreken minder topics


OUTLINE OF THIS COURSE
 What is sexuality?
 Background sexuality
o Biology:


1

,  Evolutionary perspective
 Genes, hormones, brain differentiation
 Sexual anatomy, sexual (psycho)physiology, sexual desire, sexual arousal
o Psychology:
 Sexual development through the life cycle
 Pornography
 Sexual aggression
o Socio-cultural
 Normal and abnormal sexuality
 Reprogenetics, ethics and sex
 Law and sexuality
 Western view: timeline
 Non-western views: some touchings but very few


2. DEFINITION OF SEXUALITY

2.1 WHAT IS HUMAN SEXUALITY?
 What is sexuality for you?
o 1) Psychology: relationship, intimacy, love, trust, bonding, power, shame, attraction,
emotions, attraction, ..
o 2) Biology: physical body, sex, reproduction, birth control, genitals, contraception, …
o 3) Behaviour: making love, sexual intercourse, masturbation, experimentation, sex toys,
searching for stimuli, fantasy in dialogue
o 4) Culture: religion, education, law, media, norms and values, social construction
 Clinical care:  verbonden met de 4 onderdelen
 What is sexuality related to?
 What do you think about when you hear the word sexuality?


2.2 CLASSICAL DISCUSSION
 Having your period for the first time
 Culture has a very big impact on all the three dimensions
o He thinks culture is the most important because it has an impact on biology
 Culture gives a certain meaning to biologic aspects or events
 Vb: starting menstrual cycle  start of fertility
 In some cultures it is celebrated and in some it is not
  culture has a great impact on how we view biological things
o It also has an impact on psychology
 Pleasure intimacy and love  idea that sexuality is related to these things is not
shared in every culture !  requires to feel intimately connected with someone
 1950’s: rise idea of attachment  more research
  intimacy very ! part of relationships and how sexuality is perceived
 Parker (researcher with important ideas)
o Korea  Most important person for a Korean person?
 Not parents, not grandparents
 Employer  give you money, home and a house  next: parents  children 
partner
o We do not believe that only biological things have an influence
 Hierarchy in Japan:
o Employer is seen as a very important person in the life of Japanese people
 They are not only providing them with a job but very often with a structure in their
lives
o Parents are also important
o Family


2

, o Children
o Partner
 Sexuality is a biopsychosocial phenomenon


2.3 SEX: ETYMOLOGY
 Latin
o Sexus: group, part, sort, kind, form
o Secare: to cut, to divide
 English: sex
o 1382: a person with a certain sex
o 1526: characteristic of being women or men
 sex related to a woman and a man
o 1929: sexual intercourse → “dirty word”
‘sex’ as a ‘dirty’ word only started in the 30’s
o 1950: gender:
 Men and women (gender role – gender identity: do you identify yourself as a man or a
woman?)
  Sex: sexual behaviour and attraction to others
 Gender roles, sex should be separated from gender
  gender – role description in society




3

, 2.4 SEX: DEFINITION
 There is a reverse of the importance that is being related to sex
 Sex = “Sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse”
o “Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other
living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions”
 Sex = Everything that is sexual
 Sex = Biological differences between men and women
 Sex = Behaviours and feelings that are related to physical arousal and having sex
 Sex = Behaviours in which your genitals play a role and that lead to physical arousal
o F.ex. sexual intercourse, masturbation, oral sex


2.5 SEXUALITY: ETYMOLOGY
 French: sexualité
o = What is related to a certain sex – idea of dividing man or women using the word sex
 Sexuality = broader meaning (all that is related to sexual life)
o Refers to emotions and behaviour(s)
o Ideas and desires
o Sexuality = an euphemism for sex (which is seen as rougher)


2.6 SEXUALITY: DEFINITION
 Capacity for sexual feelings
o A person’s sexual orientation or preference
o Sexual activity
 Ways you experience and express sexuality
 Someone’s sexual emotions, ideas and behavior
 Broader domain of emotions, desires, behaviors, etc that are broader than the paradigmatic sexual
behaviors and emotions
 (Biological) sex, sexual behavior
 Someone’s sexual behaviour and desires
 All occurrences that are related to one’s sex life
 All aspects of feeling and being sexual
o Sexual acts (narrow definition)
 Kissing, petting
 Masturbation
 Sexual intercourse
o Sexual behaviour (broad definition)
 Being flirtatious
 Romantic dining
 Dressing in a seductive way
 Reading Playboy
 Surfing on the internet in search for sexually explicit material
 Behaviours that are defined as “sexual” vary:
o Over time
o Between different groups
o Between different cultures
 “Sexual” is dependent of
o ideas of “normalcy” about sex
o Male and female role patterns
o Social context
o Culture
 First ‘normal’ sexuality meant in a marriage between man and woman to create children  that was
how it should be -> automatische consent zogezegd
 Consent!! Created after homosexuality stopped being seen as abnormality


4

Voordelen van het kopen van samenvattingen bij Stuvia op een rij:

√ Verzekerd van kwaliteit door reviews

√ Verzekerd van kwaliteit door reviews

Stuvia-klanten hebben meer dan 700.000 samenvattingen beoordeeld. Zo weet je zeker dat je de beste documenten koopt!

Snel en makkelijk kopen

Snel en makkelijk kopen

Je betaalt supersnel en eenmalig met iDeal, Bancontact of creditcard voor de samenvatting. Zonder lidmaatschap.

Focus op de essentie

Focus op de essentie

Samenvattingen worden geschreven voor en door anderen. Daarom zijn de samenvattingen altijd betrouwbaar en actueel. Zo kom je snel tot de kern!

Veelgestelde vragen

Wat krijg ik als ik dit document koop?

Je krijgt een PDF, die direct beschikbaar is na je aankoop. Het gekochte document is altijd, overal en oneindig toegankelijk via je profiel.

Tevredenheidsgarantie: hoe werkt dat?

Onze tevredenheidsgarantie zorgt ervoor dat je altijd een studiedocument vindt dat goed bij je past. Je vult een formulier in en onze klantenservice regelt de rest.

Van wie koop ik deze samenvatting?

Stuvia is een marktplaats, je koop dit document dus niet van ons, maar van verkoper ellenvanhove. Stuvia faciliteert de betaling aan de verkoper.

Zit ik meteen vast aan een abonnement?

Nee, je koopt alleen deze samenvatting voor €5,89. Je zit daarna nergens aan vast.

Is Stuvia te vertrouwen?

4,6 sterren op Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

Afgelopen 30 dagen zijn er 53340 samenvattingen verkocht

Opgericht in 2010, al 14 jaar dé plek om samenvattingen te kopen

Start met verkopen
€5,89
  • (0)
In winkelwagen
Toegevoegd