Lecture 1a
Concepts, definitions
Youth: is a very fluid concept, a lot of ages are labelled youth (0-30 years or so), but in this course the
term youth will mostly be focus on adolescence (12-25y)
Sexuality: can be a lever in adolescent development:
- independence from parents
- development of personal morality and identity
- development of meaningful intimate relationships
- crucial in finding balance between autonomy and connectedness
- also, the first steps in terms of exploring desires and boundaries (consent) (of yourself and others)
Sexuality: expressing, identity, hetero/homosexual again: not one clear definition, all omvatttend,
use the term because it is the widest word
The general concepts to talk about in this course:
Sex: often we see sex as the act of heterosexual penetrating sex. Solo
sex, petting, is not included in this narrow scope.
Sexe and gender: biological and social-cultural
Sexual Health: dealing with sexual risks (unwanted pregnancy, UTIs)
but also violence and coercion
Sexology: in the Netherlands related to sex therapy, but can also see it
in wider way: scientific sexology
Historical overview of sexuality research
It went from religious-moral to medical-psychiatric. The German psycho-analysts layed foundation for
sexology: Von Krafft-Ebing, Freud often considering female desire deviant.
In 1906 was the birth of sexology as a science
Bloch: Das sexualleben unserer Zeit
Hirschfeld & Bloch: founded Sexual Science Institute
Havelock Ellis, Block & Hirschfeld; research on homosexuality
these were the first steps of moving away from LGBT as a disease, immoral or a crime
Alfred Kinsey (US, 1894-1956)
was a pioneer of sex research
and a biologist, zoologist and
sexologist. He made the Kinsey
Reports (1984, 1953) based on
5000 and 6000 interviews.
It was revolutionary because he
moved the field from medical to
interdisciplinary, he described
behavior.
Also he included the taxonomy
of human sexual behavior
(including pedophilia). He also
used homosexuality as a scale
(1-7 from hetero to homo) it is not necessarily binary, we still use this scale. It was very
controversial in his time: revelations about masturbation, orgasm, premarital sex, homosexuality
Concepts, definitions
Youth: is a very fluid concept, a lot of ages are labelled youth (0-30 years or so), but in this course the
term youth will mostly be focus on adolescence (12-25y)
Sexuality: can be a lever in adolescent development:
- independence from parents
- development of personal morality and identity
- development of meaningful intimate relationships
- crucial in finding balance between autonomy and connectedness
- also, the first steps in terms of exploring desires and boundaries (consent) (of yourself and others)
Sexuality: expressing, identity, hetero/homosexual again: not one clear definition, all omvatttend,
use the term because it is the widest word
The general concepts to talk about in this course:
Sex: often we see sex as the act of heterosexual penetrating sex. Solo
sex, petting, is not included in this narrow scope.
Sexe and gender: biological and social-cultural
Sexual Health: dealing with sexual risks (unwanted pregnancy, UTIs)
but also violence and coercion
Sexology: in the Netherlands related to sex therapy, but can also see it
in wider way: scientific sexology
Historical overview of sexuality research
It went from religious-moral to medical-psychiatric. The German psycho-analysts layed foundation for
sexology: Von Krafft-Ebing, Freud often considering female desire deviant.
In 1906 was the birth of sexology as a science
Bloch: Das sexualleben unserer Zeit
Hirschfeld & Bloch: founded Sexual Science Institute
Havelock Ellis, Block & Hirschfeld; research on homosexuality
these were the first steps of moving away from LGBT as a disease, immoral or a crime
Alfred Kinsey (US, 1894-1956)
was a pioneer of sex research
and a biologist, zoologist and
sexologist. He made the Kinsey
Reports (1984, 1953) based on
5000 and 6000 interviews.
It was revolutionary because he
moved the field from medical to
interdisciplinary, he described
behavior.
Also he included the taxonomy
of human sexual behavior
(including pedophilia). He also
used homosexuality as a scale
(1-7 from hetero to homo) it is not necessarily binary, we still use this scale. It was very
controversial in his time: revelations about masturbation, orgasm, premarital sex, homosexuality
