HEADS UP ON SEXUALITY.
Sex. Sex. Sex. It has been said that men think about sex 20-30 times a day. I guess, if this is true, sex is “top of mind” for men. This mentality has many ramizcations of society that are both simple and complex.
There have been scores of studies done on the topic of sex for several
centuries!
“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself”- Johnny Carson.
A Little History.
Sex manuals have existed since antiquity, such as Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana the Ananga, and The Perfumed Garden for the Soul’s Recreation.
Despite the prevailing social attitude of sexual repression in the Victorian era, the movement towards sexual emancipation began towards the end of the nineteenth century in England and Germany. In 1886, Richard Freiherr von Krafft Ebing published “Psychopathia Sexualis”. That work is considered as having established sexology as a scientizc discipline.
In 1908, the zrst scholarly journal of the field Journal of Sexology (Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft) began publication and was published monthly for one year. Those issues contained articles by Freud, Alfred Adler, and Wilhelm Stekel. In 1913, the first academic association was founded : the Society for Sexology.
“Sex is emotion in motion” – Mae West
The field of sex therapy grew rapidly after the introduction of behavioral therapeutic approaches by Masters and Johnson and others during the 1960s and 1970s. While usually conducted by clinically-trained psychologists, social workers, and others, sexual therapy for individuals and couples has increased considerably, yet often without adequate moorings in scientific research and evaluation of treatment modalities. More recently, cognitive behavioral techniques have been applied to the treatment of sexual dysfunctions, and there have been concomitant advances in the study of physiological measures of sexual functioning and in the understanding of sexual problems, especially in those areas of hormonal development in
humans and lower animals. At the same time, the field of sex therapy has become somewhat isolated from other areas in sexuality research, with little impact upon the implications of clinical work for other areas of research.
“I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away”. -Phyllis Diller.
Do men and women have different sex drives?
Research: A recent New York Times Magzine Article describes a University of Wisconsin, Madison “meta-analysis ” of more than 800 studies of our sexual habits conducted over 15 years.
Results: The researchers found that “the evidence for an inborn disparity in sexual motivation is debatable,” the piece reports. The study “suggests that the very statistics evolutionary psychologists use to prove innate difference — like number of sexual partners or rates of masturbation — are heavily influenced by culture. All scientists really know is that the disparity in desire exists, at least after a relationship has lasted a while.” Women’s desire does decrease, but not as a matter of course—as a result of monogamy in particular.
Kinsey’s data revealed that sexual intercourse before marriage – in both genders – was more common than believed. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY states, “Sexuality is one of the fundamental drives behind everyone’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. It deznes the means of biological reproduction, describes psychological and sociological representations of self, and orients a person’s attraction to others. Further, it shapes the brain and body to be pleasure-seeking. Yet, as important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for personal or scientific inquiry.
“My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive”. – Rodney Dangerfield
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