Time
Patience: Mind read, but never ask about our partners feelings
Work
Awareness: More aware of who you are and what you want
Self Reflection: Emotional awareness Understanding how our past influences our present
How past influences the present
When you’re in bed you are with a lot of people
Mother in your ear saying “is he that right one?” is he wearing a condom?”
Love Maps: a group of messages encoded in our brains that describe our like and dislikes
find people that clearly fit my love map
Why are you drown to certain people and not others
attraction
desire
sexuality is a part of our life from the moment we are born
Toddlers need to self sooth
as early as six month
not just gential, but also affective
cradle them
teaching child about love
they will be great lovers later on
Attitudes
before language take in emotional data on what its like to be in this world
if an infant is seeing some one get beaten they take in that energy
family helps with this development
Parents are the primary sex educators of their own children
“askable” parents
“teachable” moments
what will your role be like as sex educator
Helping children feel good about themselves is an important part of sex education
Worthwhileness starts when you are born
Sham is the opposite: I don’t think I have what it takes to love someone
Gender Roles
Stereotype: A fixed, over simplified and often distorted idea about a group of types people
Gender Role: Are stereotypes in that they evoke fixed conventional expectation of men and women
Art & Skill to Love making
Love is a complex experience
Love is both an expressed feeling and an activity its only takes one person to be in love love relationships take two people need to be with one another love takes time
Difference between love and infatuation lust is intense love lasts a long time love changes over time