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Sexual intelligence
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Involves
self-understanding, interpersonal sexual skills, scientific knowledge, and
consideration of the cultural context of sexuality
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Psychosocial
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Refers to a combinations
of psychological and social factors
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Who is more constrained by gender role rigidity?
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Boys
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Are we incrementally getting closer to enlightenment in sexuality?
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No, progress ebbs and flows
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Is sex binary or fluid?
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Fluid
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Who is more fluid- men or women?
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Women
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Goals of sexology
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include
understanding, predicting, and controlling behavior
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Nonexperiemtnal methods for
studying sexuality
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Case studies, surveys, and
direct observation
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Case study's
two advantages
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Flexibility and the
opportunity to explore specific behaviors and feelings in depth
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Case study's disadvantages
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Lack of investigative
control, possible subjective bias on the researcher’s part, and poor sampling
techniques, which often limit the possibility of making generalization to broad
populations
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Most information about
human sexual behavior has been obtained through...
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Questionnaire or interview
surveys of relatively large populations of respondents
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Questionnaires advantage
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Being anonymous,
inexpensive, and quickly administered
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Interviews advantage
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More flexible and allow for
more rapport between researcher and subject
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Sex researchers who use
surveys face certain common problems including...
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Self-selection of samples,
or volunteer bias,
Biases created by
nonresponse,
The problem of accuracy,
Demographic biases
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The Kinsey surveys
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Were broad-scale studies of
human sexual behavior that were somewhat limited by sampling techniques that
overrepresented young, educated city dwellers
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