Exploring Human Sexuality (Part 1)

This class is blowing my mind with some of it's facts, statistics and commentary. I had sex education in high school, but EVERYONE should take this class once they have had some experience in the world, De Anza College calls is HUMA 10.

• 74% of white women & 26% of black woman (between 18 & 36) had 13 or more sexual partners.
• Vibrators were the 15th household appliance to be electrified after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle & toaster.
• Girls learn to nod their head during conversations with other girls. This lets the talker know that she is being listened to. When a woman nods her head during a conversation with a man, he thinks she agrees with him. When a man doesn't nod his head when a woman is talking to him, she may think he isn't listening to her. All of this can lead to feeling misunderstood and to poor communication.
• Study re: first meetings between men and woman.  Women who "flirt" using non-verbal cues as hair flipping and head nodding, are encouraging men to reveal more about themselves, which would in turn allow the woman to formulate an impression of the men.  Men, on the other hand, view flirting as a way to show interest in a potential relationship.
• By making girls help with the cooking and cleaning; and boys take out the trash - these little everyday actions build into powerful messages about gender.
• The clitoris has twice the # of nerve endings (8,000) as the penis (4,000). (Oh, lucky me!)
  
• 3 million girls undergo genital mutilation every year according to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2008)