School
University of LethbridgeDepartment
PsychologyCourse Code
Psychology 2800Professor
Thisis P S Y C2850- Human Sexuality N O T P S Y C2800This preview shows page 1. to view the full 4 pages of the document.
February 16, 2011
Sexual Arousal
•Sexual arousal is a state of sexual excitement
•Psychological: involves sexual feelings, attractions, or desires
•Physiological: involves changes in the genitalia
•Psychological Sexual Arousal
•Feelings of sexual arousal
•Feelings of genital arousal (i.e., how aroused do my genitals feel?)
•Feelings of emotional arousal (i.e., how turned on do I feel?)
•Men’s and women’s subjective experiences of sexual arousal and orgasm are very
similar
•Sexual Fantasies
•Occur during waking hours
•Can be constrained or unconstrained by other individuals
•Can occur during partnered sex (think about something else to become
aroused and orgasm)
•Differences in the content of fantasies
•Men: virgins, anal, group, MILFs, partners get undressed, younger partners,
mutual masturbation, oral, strangers, more adventurous, focus on visuals
and genitals, dominance
•Women: marriage, commitment, feelings, submissive
•Rape fantasies: common in women, threat of force from partner, erotic not
scary, in control of own fantasy, wanting a man to commit
•Cognitive processes involving the evaluation of sexual stimuli may proceed sexual
arousal especially in women
•Walen-Roth Cognitive Model of sexual arousal
1. Perception of a sexual stimulus
2. Positive evaluation
3. Arousal
4. Perception of arousal
5. Positive evaluation
6. Sexual behaviour
7.Perception of behaviour
8. Positive evaluation
•8-->3; 8-->6; 5-->3
•Physiological Sexual Arousal
•Genital changes during sexual arousal
1. Vasocongestion
•Women: labia pooling with blood, in vestibular bulbs cause tightening around
penis, labia majora can extend outward an wrap around penis
•Men:
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