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MODULE 1:
Historical Perspectives of Sex
Chapters 1 & 2
Caroline F. Pukall, PhD, CPsych

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Week 1 Overview
1.1
What is human sexuality?
1.2
History of masturbation
1.3
History of sex toys
1.4
The beginning of modern sex research: Kinsey and Masters & Johnson

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A lecture on masturbation…
Why?
Wasn’t it always kind of taboo?
???

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Early views
of
masturbation
Ancient Greece
•
Medical system based on context of “humorism” (4 humors/basic substances)
•
Concerned especially about females who may have a build-up of fluids
Æ
medical conditions
•
Very little discussion of masturbation Galen: masturbation (males & females) to aid health

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Early views
of
masturbation
Ancient Greece
•
Medical system based on context of “humorism” (4 humors/basic substances)
•
Concerned especially about females who may have a build-up of fluids
Æ
medical conditions
•
Very little discussion of masturbation Galen: masturbation (males & females) to aid health

18
th
century

18
th
century

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Onania:
Author’s
goals
•
Publish own warnings about moral and physical dangers of masturbation using case reports
•
Provide (expensive) prescriptions for “cures”

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Onania:
Effects