The Psychology of Human Sexuality

I absolutely must rave about my new class, the psychology of human sexuality. It is an honors course section taught by Professor Demarco. He's new to Hunter, but apart from teaching, he is also a sexologist and therapist. This means that not only does he know about the subject, he also has first hand experience with patients. The classes are completely unlike any other class I've ever been. He doesn't want to lecture us too much, instead preferring class discussions. The amount of stories and cases that he's encountered are more than enough to keep the entire class transfixed. For example, last class he discussed one of his patients that had a weird fetish. Apparently the man like armpits and balloons among some other equally strange ones. So far, we've watched two documentaries. One was on the origins of contraceptives and how many "modern day" inventions like the condom, really have been available since Roman times (back then known as the sheepskin condom). The second documentary was on the language of the sexes. Its incredible to see how the sexes both female and male do their best to exaggerate certain body parts to emphasize their femininity or masculinity. Western society has plastic surgery. Other eastern societies have other more interesting methods. An African tribe has a lip plate implanted into girls lips through a small incision made in the lower lip. The plate is continuously changed for a bigger one until the lips are immense. Other cultures use skin bleachers to keep pale skin while others, like us, use tanning machines to conserve color. Beauty is relative to one's culture but no matter where the person is located, people always seem interested in these gender cues.