PSYC 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Addiction
Document Summary
Sexual disorder a clinically significant disturbance in a person"s ability to respond sexually or to experience sexual pleasure. The term sexual dysfunction is also used. Generalized or situational: if it is biological it is generalized. You don"t give them a category of sexual dysfunction label it if it is not destressing on the individual or the relationship: distress is the key for the dsm no matter the category. In our society if you have too much or too little sexual desire you"re consider abnormal. Sexual desire discrepancy partners have considerably different levels of sexual desire: not a diagnosis, usually one person wants it more than the other. Sexual addiction is not a sexual criteria in the dsm. There is not enough research to show that this is abnormal. Sexual aversion is a phobia; this is when people have a fear or a sentiment of disgust towards sex.
