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Samenvatting - Human sexuality in a world of diversity
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1 What is Human Sexuality ?
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erotic
arousing sexual feelings or desires
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Gender
one's personal, social, and legal status as a male or female
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Human sexuality
The ways we experience and exrpess ourselves as sexual beings
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values
the beliefs and qualities in life that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable
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Gender rolescomplex clusters of the ways males and females are expected to behave within a given culture
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phallic worshipveneration of the penis as a symbol of generative power
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phallic symbolan object that represents the penis
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incest taboothe prohibition against intercourse with close blood relatives
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Polygamythe practice of having two or more spoouses at the same time
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monogamythe practice of having only one spouse
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PederastySexual love between a man and a boy
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Bisexualsexual responsive to either gender
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Courtesana prostitute, especially the mistress of a noble or wealthy man
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Concubinea second wife, usually of inferior legal and social status
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SexologistA scientist who studies sexual behavior
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EvolutionThe development of a species by mean of many small, cumulative adaptations to its environment
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Natural selectionThe evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable members of a species to survive long enough to reproduce and transmit these traits to their offspring
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Evolutionary psychologythe theory that a disposition toward a behavior pattern that enhances reproductive success may be genetically transmitted
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Analoguesomething that is similar or comparable to something else
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copulationsexual intercourse
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PsychoanalysisThe theory of personality orginated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behaviour represents the outcome of clashing inner forces
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Unconscious mindThose parts or contents of the mind that lie outside of conscious awareness
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Egoin psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that mediates between the id and the superego and that deals with external reality
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Defence mechanismsIn psychoanalytic theory, automatic processes that protect the ego from anxiety by disguising or ejecting unacceptable ideas and urges.
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RepressionThe autonamtic ejection of anxiety evoking ideas from consciousness
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Erogenous zonesParts of the body, including but not limited to the sex organs, that are responsive to sexual stimulation
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Psychosexual developmentin psychoanalytic theory, the process by which sexual feelings shift from one eregenous zone to another.
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FixationIn psychoanalytic theory, arrested development that includes attachment to traits and sexual preferences characteristic of an earlier stage of psychosexual development
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Oedipus complexA complex of emotions raised in a young child, especially a boy, by a subconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite gender
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BehaviouristsLearning theorists who argue that a scientific approach to understanding behaviour must refer only to observable and measurable behaviours, and who emphasize the importanse of rewards and punishments in the learning process
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CoitusSexual intercourse
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Modellingacquiring knowledge and skills by observing others
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Social-cognitive theoryA cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning, values, and expectations play key roles in determining behavior.
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Queer theoryA theory that challenges heteronormativity and heterosexism
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HomophobiaHatred of homosexuals (even though the root "phobia" means "fear", not "hatred")
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Gay bashing
violence against homosexuals
Homophobia
a cluster of negative attitudes and feelings toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, including intolerance, hatred and fear.
Femme
a lesbian who assumes a traditional feminine gender role
Butch
a lesbian who assumes a traditional masculine gender role
Penis envy
in psychoanalytic theory, a girl's wish to have a penis
Castration anxiety
in psychoanalytic theory, a man's fear that his genitals will be removed.
Activating effects
those effects of sex hormones that influence sex drive levels, but not sexual orientation
Dizygotic (DZ) twins
Siblings who develop from different dertilized ova. (Fraternal twins)
Monozygotic (MZ) twins
siblings who develop from the same fertilized ovum (identical twins)
Biphobia
negative attitudes and feelings toward bisexual people, including intolerence, hatred and fear.