History of Sex Research
Title: History of Sex Research
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History of Sex Research
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 1050 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Greeks to 1900
*Early knowledge gained from watching animals
*400 B.C. Aristotle, "History of Animals, Parts of Animals, and Generation of Animals,"
-foundation of western sexology
-developed classification system: reproduction by sexual, asexual, and spontaneous generation
*During this period, believed male contributed the seed, the woman brought to fruition.
*Plato - wandering uterus causes hysteria in women
*1600: Vesalius
-discounted wandering uterus theory
-female anatomy still misunderstood
*1653 William Harvey: discovered importance of female egg to reproduction by
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vaginal walls
*orgasmic contractions
-Four phase description: (1) excitement (2) plateau (3) orgasm (4) resolution
Contraception
*1860 rubber condoms sold - prevent v.d., contraceptive
*1870 rubber diaphragm available to women
*IUD
-first recorded use by Arab camel drivers - put stones in camel's uterus
-widespread use in 1920 - wire IUD developed by Ernst Grafenberg
*Hormonal contraceptives - 1936 - experiment on rats demonstrated that daily progesterone injections inhibited estrous cycle.
*The Pill
-1960 - FDA approved "Enovid"
-contained progestin and estrogen