Thinking About Human Sexuality |  |
Learning ObjectivesAfter completing this chapter, you should be able to:
| Describe the components of human sexuality. |
| List and describe traditional sources of sexual knowledge and describe how science can expand such understanding. |
| List and describe five social institutions that influence our sexuality. |
| List recent social changes and describe how they have an influence on our sexuality. |
| Contrast the typical person's ways of trying to understand sexuality with the three major ways utilized by the sexuality scholar. |
| Summarize some of what scholars know about sexuality in ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, the Middle East, Asia, Greece and Rome. |
| Describe the historical events and Christian traditions that influence modern Western concepts of sexuality. |
| Describe those aspects of Victorianism that influence contemporary North American sexuality. |
| Summarize the impact of the second wave of feminism on contemporary North American sexuality. |
| Summarize the environmental and technical problems involved in conducting sexuality research. |
| Explain why people should understand the methods used to study human sexuality. |
| Describe the strengths and weaknesses of surveys, observation, experiments, correlational studies, and clinical studies. |
| List the major ethical principles that guide sexuality research, practice, and education and explain their purpose. |
| Define critical thinking and describe nine general guidelines for thinking critically about sexual information. |
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