Samenvatting - Human sexuality in a world of diversity

• 1 What is Human Sexuality ?

• erotic

  arousing sexual feelings or desires

• Gender

  one's personal, social, and legal status as a male or female

• Human sexuality

  The ways we experience and exrpess ourselves as sexual beings

• values

   

  the beliefs and qualities in life that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

• Gender roles
  

  complex clusters of the ways males and females are expected to behave within a given culture
• phallic worship

  veneration of the penis as a symbol of generative power
• phallic symbol

  an object that represents the penis
• incest taboo

  the prohibition against intercourse with close blood relatives
• Polygamy

  the practice of having two or more spoouses at the same time
• monogamy

  the practice of having only one spouse
• Pederasty

  Sexual love between a man and a boy
• Bisexual

  sexual responsive to either gender
• Courtesan

  a prostitute, especially the mistress of a noble or wealthy man
• Concubine

  a second wife, usually of inferior legal and social status
• Sexologist

  A scientist who studies sexual behavior
• Evolution

  The development of a species by mean of many small, cumulative adaptations to its environment
• Natural selection

  The evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable members of a species to survive long enough to reproduce and transmit these traits to their offspring
• Evolutionary psychology

  the theory that a disposition toward a behavior pattern that enhances reproductive success may be genetically transmitted
• Analogue

  something that is similar or comparable to something else
• copulation

  sexual intercourse
• Psychoanalysis

  The theory of personality orginated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behaviour represents the outcome of clashing inner forces
• Unconscious mind

  Those parts or contents of the mind that lie outside of conscious awareness
• Ego

  in psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that mediates between the id and the superego and that deals with external reality
• Defence mechanisms

  In psychoanalytic theory, automatic processes that protect the ego from anxiety by disguising or ejecting unacceptable ideas and urges.
• Repression

  The autonamtic ejection of anxiety evoking ideas from consciousness
• Erogenous zones

  Parts of the body, including but not limited to the sex organs, that are responsive to sexual stimulation
• Psychosexual development

  in psychoanalytic theory, the process by which sexual feelings shift from one eregenous zone to another. 
• Fixation

  In psychoanalytic theory, arrested development that includes attachment to traits and sexual preferences characteristic of an earlier stage of psychosexual development
• Oedipus complex

  A complex of emotions raised in a young child, especially a boy, by a subconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite gender
• Behaviourists

  Learning 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
• Coitus

  Sexual intercourse
• Modelling 

  acquiring knowledge and skills by observing others
• Social-cognitive theory

  A cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning, values, and expectations play key roles in determining behavior.
• Queer theory

  A theory that challenges heteronormativity and heterosexism
• Homophobia

  Hatred of homosexuals (even though the root "phobia" means "fear", not "hatred")