FACS 470 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Authentic - Answers - real genuine believable and trustworthy
authenticity indicates - Answers - sexuality is meant to be congruent and integral part
of a person's total being
our sexuality must be a real genuine believable and trustworthy part of ourselves so that
we can embrace what God has created and revealed to be very good
puritans - Answers - sexual expression between spouses was regarded as good
natural and therefore not to be withheld
victorians - Answers - blame some negative attitudes toward sex on them
victorian philosophy was to repress anything that appeared to be sexual
dichotomy between sexual desire and love left to a dual arrangement
-a man had his sexual needs met by a "bad" women but would only marry a "good"
women
1960s play boy - Answers - message was how to get a women into bed and emerge
free of any emotional attachments
something is wrong with a society obsessed with sex
1980s - Answers - trend toward new virginity
purity pledges and rings
fear of AIDS reinforced to stop promiscuous sex and began safe practices
2000s - Answers - explicit sex is depicted in most forms of popular culture movies tv
and music
one becomes a sexual being through a multidimensional process - Answers - sexuality
is a reflection (partly) of the culture with in which a person is socialized
interactive effect - Answers - 2 factors join together in sexual development
use it or lose it - Answers - increase in hormone levels can elevate sexual interest and
involvement; engaging in sexual activity can also increase hormone levels
7 generalizations - Answers - 1 evidence is insufficient to make casual statement in
explaining the development of human sexuality
-more accurate to cite factors that contribute
2 bio factors serve as necessary but not solely sufficient contributes
-bio is not enough to be sexually authentic
3 socio cultural factors serve as sufficient but not necessary contributions
-must have both bio and socio-cultural
4 human sexuality emerges as part of the developmental process
, 5 while bio factors are most crucial in establishing sexuality early in life socio-cultural
become more in important as child matures
6 families churches communities and societies vary in the degree to which they reflect
God's design and meaning for human sexuality
-the more the groups follow God's plan the better
7 authentic sexuality and inauthentic sexuality are dichotomous only in a moral sense
an should never be used to describe
-no person totally represents authentic sexuality
4 major standards of premarital sex - Answers - 1. sexual abstinence
2. double standard
3. permissiveness with affection
4. permissiveness with out affection
double standard theories - Answers - 1. sexual scripts which continue to define the
male role as more permissive than the female role
2. sexual economics which presumes that the rational pursuit of reward maximization
rather than love and a desire for intimacy govern the sex lives of young men
adultery - Answers - sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is
not their spouse
any intercourse between 2 non married persons
porneia - Answers - sex outside marriage
guidelines - Answers - 1 degree of sexual intimacy should correspond to degree of
love and commitment present
2 law of diminishing returns is a applicable in sexuality as in physics: to achieve an
affect a 2nd time a stronger force is needed
3 both partners must test their personal motives for the physical involvement and
activity
4 both must communicate continually
5 both should take responsibility for establishing guidelines and setting limits
6 both must agree to abide by the limits
to achieve authentic sexuality in marriage - Answers - 1. foundation for authentic
sexuality is mutuality
-in agreement
2. husband and wife need to verbally communicate their sexual feelings and desires
3. no game playing in the sexual encounter
4. marital sexuality should include an element of playfulness
-non self conscious interaction
5. essential not to become spectators in the sex encounter
6. the greater the sensory pleasure in a relationship exclusive of coitus the greater the
sexual adequacy
-take time to touch
Authentic - Answers - real genuine believable and trustworthy
authenticity indicates - Answers - sexuality is meant to be congruent and integral part
of a person's total being
our sexuality must be a real genuine believable and trustworthy part of ourselves so that
we can embrace what God has created and revealed to be very good
puritans - Answers - sexual expression between spouses was regarded as good
natural and therefore not to be withheld
victorians - Answers - blame some negative attitudes toward sex on them
victorian philosophy was to repress anything that appeared to be sexual
dichotomy between sexual desire and love left to a dual arrangement
-a man had his sexual needs met by a "bad" women but would only marry a "good"
women
1960s play boy - Answers - message was how to get a women into bed and emerge
free of any emotional attachments
something is wrong with a society obsessed with sex
1980s - Answers - trend toward new virginity
purity pledges and rings
fear of AIDS reinforced to stop promiscuous sex and began safe practices
2000s - Answers - explicit sex is depicted in most forms of popular culture movies tv
and music
one becomes a sexual being through a multidimensional process - Answers - sexuality
is a reflection (partly) of the culture with in which a person is socialized
interactive effect - Answers - 2 factors join together in sexual development
use it or lose it - Answers - increase in hormone levels can elevate sexual interest and
involvement; engaging in sexual activity can also increase hormone levels
7 generalizations - Answers - 1 evidence is insufficient to make casual statement in
explaining the development of human sexuality
-more accurate to cite factors that contribute
2 bio factors serve as necessary but not solely sufficient contributes
-bio is not enough to be sexually authentic
3 socio cultural factors serve as sufficient but not necessary contributions
-must have both bio and socio-cultural
4 human sexuality emerges as part of the developmental process
, 5 while bio factors are most crucial in establishing sexuality early in life socio-cultural
become more in important as child matures
6 families churches communities and societies vary in the degree to which they reflect
God's design and meaning for human sexuality
-the more the groups follow God's plan the better
7 authentic sexuality and inauthentic sexuality are dichotomous only in a moral sense
an should never be used to describe
-no person totally represents authentic sexuality
4 major standards of premarital sex - Answers - 1. sexual abstinence
2. double standard
3. permissiveness with affection
4. permissiveness with out affection
double standard theories - Answers - 1. sexual scripts which continue to define the
male role as more permissive than the female role
2. sexual economics which presumes that the rational pursuit of reward maximization
rather than love and a desire for intimacy govern the sex lives of young men
adultery - Answers - sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is
not their spouse
any intercourse between 2 non married persons
porneia - Answers - sex outside marriage
guidelines - Answers - 1 degree of sexual intimacy should correspond to degree of
love and commitment present
2 law of diminishing returns is a applicable in sexuality as in physics: to achieve an
affect a 2nd time a stronger force is needed
3 both partners must test their personal motives for the physical involvement and
activity
4 both must communicate continually
5 both should take responsibility for establishing guidelines and setting limits
6 both must agree to abide by the limits
to achieve authentic sexuality in marriage - Answers - 1. foundation for authentic
sexuality is mutuality
-in agreement
2. husband and wife need to verbally communicate their sexual feelings and desires
3. no game playing in the sexual encounter
4. marital sexuality should include an element of playfulness
-non self conscious interaction
5. essential not to become spectators in the sex encounter
6. the greater the sensory pleasure in a relationship exclusive of coitus the greater the
sexual adequacy
-take time to touch
