Origins of Human Sexuality What is human sexuality Looking at all aspects of humans as sexual beings What does the word sex mean o Our answers reflect Personal experiences issues and understanding Behaviors Intercourse PVI penile vaginal intercourse Feelings Biological 1920 s sexy horny Experiencing your own sexuality Personal sexual philosophy o Emotions knowledge o Develops across lifespan o Influenced by morals and values Socialization What you know may be wrong o Socially constructed ideas Cunt What people have thought through the ages Prehistoric sexuality o Artifacts Venus figures Represent healthy fertile women Generating life and feeding that life Falic symbols Incest taboo All cultures have this taboo No sex with people you re related to Native American spirituality o Did not view nudity or sexuality as shameful came with Christians o Accepting of developmental sexuality o Polygamous o Very little prostitution or rape o Gender Essences male and female one essence other body two spirits seen as more esteemed for having both male and female Early Chinese Culture o Spirit and sexuality are linked o Yin female seen as unlimited but yan male could run out o During sexual intercourse a man could obtain yin The best way was through female orgasm Greeks and Romans o Greeks viewed gods as voracious appetites Viewed as pansexual Could be animals men women both Etc No labeling of orientation Pederasty Male male sex when approved of Viewed as an honor Women viewed as property Prostitution and same sex marriage occurred o Romans Family was seen as the center of society Pederasty was frowned upon Fallatio direct Oral sex with a man Cunalingus direct Oral sex on a woman Fornication social construct Dirty sinful sex Prostitutes met under arch forne o Judeo Christian morality Hebrews Sex is between married people Joyful bonding rewarding Adultery was shameful Marriage was about money and property Divorce was ok Especially if one could not have sex with the other Christian Negative restrictive view of sexuality All sex is sinful Hierarchy of sinfulness Celibacy Sex within marriage only for childbearing Divorce was outlawed All types of sex are taboo Protestant Sex can be rewarding Lift on the ban to celibacy Idea of sex being shameful Victorian Era Named for queen victoria repression of sexuality ejaculation was dangerous robs them of vitality women have sexual anesthesia widespread belief that women don t like sex women have few rights worked in the field or home chaperoning rule o women need to be followed calling card o men come to door hand card to person who answers door women can receive the card or say no thank you never actually have to say to his face if accepted they all sit together and have tea date after 3 4 dates you are allowed to go to the park after park ice cream you are engaged so sex is allowed Dressing women very sexually EXCEPT length corset bussell dress had to touch floor no ankles Prostitution was at an all time high Rise of pornography Women at doctors When having a baby o Curtain o Did not look at woman s parts during childbirth Pelvic hyperemia o Treatment manual vulvar massage o Invent protable massage NOT falic shaped o Vibrator was 5th electric device in the home Havelock Ellis Wrote and encyclopedia of sexuality Sexual anesthesia as wrong Sexual desires in women natural homosexuality naturally occurring o Oscar wilde trial Start of homophobia Richard vo Krafft EBing Treatment of sexual conditions o Psychopathia Sexualis Case studies of odd sexual behavior Became disorders Sigmund Freud Alfred Kinsey Sex a primary motivating force After the rest First large scale studies of sexual behavior Progressive Era to the First Sexual Revolution 1910 1929