Human Sexuality - Chapter 1 People

3 Constitutional Principles to Overturn Laws Regarding Consensual Sexual Behavior

1.Independent Rights 2.Privacy Law 3.Equal Protection

Margaret Mead

1930's - One of the first anthropologists to examine sexual customs and attitudes, concluded they are shaped by cultural narratives

Richard Mapplethorne

20th c. photographer who took sadomachichistic photos, supported by the arts

Williams H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson

"Human Sexual Response" was published containing research of over 10,000 orgasms, research focused on physocial elements and sexual disfunction

Greek Views on Sex

Aristotle and Plato believed sexual urges were about needs vs. friendship-love

Shunga

Japanese bridal scrolls

Magnus Hirschfeld

One of first individuals to take a stand for homosexuality,

18th C. Western Cultures

Sexually implicit/nudity was permitted so long as the genitals were covered

20th C. Western Cultures

Surrealism (sexual fantasy and free thought)

Lady Charlotte's Lover (1929)

author D.H. Lawrence, stirred controversy for years, pioneer in its sensitive treatment of erotic themes

Ulysses

author James Joyce, was banned bc of pornographic themes that went against Judge Woosley's decision to limit porn in the US in 1933

Cultural Relativism

concerning immigrants, believing one's home culture should be respected

Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

created by Nixon in the 1970's, recommended repeal of porn based consummations

Commission on Pornography

created by Reagan in 1984

Raimondi

created sculptures of the art given to him by painter Giulio Romano

Eurocentric

dualist, seen as black and white or either or

Cultural Absolutism

expecting everyone to adapt to the culture they live in now

Pietro Aretino

originator of European pornography, published the first "Stroke Book" in 1527 "I Modi" (the Ways), created sonnets to accompany the drawing

Giulio Romano

painted sexual positions

Online Children Protection Act

passed by Congress in 1998, challenged with constitutionality, struck down in 2009

Legion of Decency

instituted by Roman Catholic Church in 1934, standards were adopted by the Hollywood Production Code, became a bias for women's rights and sexuality to fit the mindset of the era

Pre-Columbian Art from Mexico and Peru

showed fellatio, exaggerated penis size, often homosexuality

Ancient Greek Art

showed rabid sexual situations

Richard von Krafft-Ebbing

wrote "Psychopothia Sexualis", Widely circulated medical text that portrayed various forms of sexual behavior and arousal as disgusting and pathological. Four classifications of sexual deviations: Sadism, masochism, fetishism, and homosexuality Masturbation caused all sexual deviations.

Alfred Kinsey

zoologist who went into studies about human sexuality, and through his work, sexuality became respected as a scientific study, published books on both Male and Female sexuality

Mid 1980's

recognition and awareness of AIDS and HIV

St. Thomas Aquinas

sex could be pleasurable and used for reproduction

Theodore van de Velde

Dutch physician, wrote "Ideal Marriage", encouraged sexual responsiveness in a Victorian-era mindset, encouraged and taught about oral, foreplay, and corrections for sexual problems

Henry Hevelock Ellis

English sex researcher who spent decades studying sexuality in Western culture and wrote 7 volumes on the subject, noted masturbation was common and natural, women could have same sexual desires as men, and the male and female orgasm are similar

The Sex (Now Sexuality)

First organized sex education, founded in 1964

Iwan Bloch

German physician, coined "sexual science", first "sexologist," discovered sexuality was natural and healthy

St. Augustine

Negative view on sex for pleasure, sex was only acceptable in marriage and for reproduction

Sigmund Freud

Neuroses were produced by unconscious conflicts of a sexual nature, created Theory of Infantile Sexuality, wrote "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" in 1905

Helena Wright

Pioneer in female sexual liberation, gyro in London during 1920's, published book called "The Sex Factor in Marriage" to help women understand their bodies and how to achieve orgasm, as she discovered most women found sex unpleasurable and a marital duty

Robert Latou Dickinson

Published "A Thousand Marriages" in 1932, created and introduced the electric vibrator, spent time learning about women's sexual organs such as clitoris, taught women how to orgasm, and learned that sexual repression during childhood could cause abnormalities in function during adulthood