PSYC 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fundamental Theorem Of Arithmetic, Hypersexuality, Sexual Arousal
Document Summary
Average number of orgasms a week is 2 or 3 (for men) Sexual dysfunction focus on inhibition of sexual response and sexual desire. Nymphomania : insatiable impulse of a woman to engage in an abnormal number of sexual contacts with an abnormal number of partners with no deep emotional involvement. Satyriasis : excessive uncontrolled sexual activity by a man with little or no emotional involvement (the dude equivalent of a nymphomaniac) Promiscuity : it"s a moral failing, not something to treat. Frequency of normal sexual behavior on a continuum. Paraphilia : recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies generally involving either: non human objects, suffering or humiliation of oneself or one"s partner, or children or other non-consenting people. Necessary but not a sufficient condition for having a paraphilic disorder , and a paraphilia by itself does not necessarily justify or require clinical intervention.
