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HLTHAGE 2P03

SEX AND WELLBEING

Undergraduate

Fall 2025 · C01

Readings

  • Materials Available Through Library Ereserves
    Ereserves · Required
  • Oer: The Psychology Of Human Sexuality Ed: NUL
    Lehmiller · NUL · Required
Fall 2024 · C01

Topics

  • Pre-recorded lecture: Introduction, Methods & Theories
  • Introduction, Methods & Theories ctd
  • Podcast: Better Sex Through Mindfulness
  • Sexual Orientation and Identity
  • Research Discussion: Consensual Non-Monogamy
  • Sex & Mood/Life Satisfaction
  • Podcast: Responsive Desire
  • Prerecorded Lecture: Gender/sex Differences in Sexuality
  • Sex and Singlehood
  • Guest lecture: Incels (by Dr. James Kim) & other videos
  • Online midterm (50 min exam, can be started anytime between 12am and 11pm)
  • Sex & Aging
  • Podcast: Better Sex at Any Age
  • Sexuality & Adolescence
  • Guest lecture: Sexuality & Adolescence (by Dr. Diana Peragine)
  • Keeping the Sexual Passion: Individual Factors
  • Research Discussion: Sexual Exchange (with PhD candidate Stephanie Raposo)
  • Keeping the Sexual Passion- Contextual Factors
  • Pre-recorded lecture: Sexual Communication & Perception
  • Pornography...Good or Bad?
  • Pre-recorded lecture: Sexual Variations
  • Sexual Pain & STIs

Readings

  • The Psychology of Human Sexuality (free ebook)
    Justin Lehmiller · 2014 · 1st edition · Required
  • **You can access the ebook FREE from the McMaster library [Note: Make sure you are accessing the 1st edition from 2014, as the university has limited access to the 2018 version, and I use the 2014 version when generating exam questions] **
    See source
  • Textbook Chapter 1 “Theoretical Perspectives on Human Sexuality”
    See source
  • Textbook Chapter 2 “Sexology Research: History, Methods, and Ethics”
    See source
  • Journal article: Blair et al., 2018
    See source
  • Journal article: Maxwell & Meltzer, 2020
    See source
  • Journal article: French et al., 2022
    See source
  • The Atlantic article: “Why Are Young People Having so Little Sex?”
    See source
  • Journal article: Kvalem et al., 2020
    See source
  • Textbook Chapter 10 “Sex Education, Contraception, and Pregnancy” Pages 256- 272 (Subsections on Sex Education and Contraception—don’t need to read Pregnancy)
    See source
  • Journal article: Muise & Impett, 2015
    See source
  • Textbook Chapter 13 “Variations in Sexual Behavior”
    See source
  • Journal article: Grubbs et al., 2019
    See source
  • https://textbooks.mcmaster.ca ↗
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