PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Masters And Johnson, Paraphilia, Sexual Stimulation
Document Summary
Disorders of sex and gender, sexual dysfunctions, paraphilic disorders, Sexual dysfunctions are disorders in which people cannot respond normally in key areas of sexual functioning. As many as 31% of men and 43% of women in the u. s. suffer from such a dysfunction during their lives. Sexual dysfunctions are typically very distressing, and often lead to sexual frustration, guilt, loss of self-esteem, and interpersonal problems. Often these dysfunctions are interrelated; many patients with one dysfunction experience another as well. The human sexual response can be described as a cycle with four phases: desire, excitement, orgasm, resolution. Disorder of sexual desires affect one or more of the first three phases. The normal sexual response cycle male. The normal sexual response cycle female. Disorders of desire: desire phase of the sexual response cycle, consists of an urge to have sex, sexual fantasies, and sexual attraction to others, two dysfunctions affect this phase:
