FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Parasympathetic Nervous System, Clomipramine, Sympathetic Nervous System
Document Summary
Sexual dysfunction: a persistent or recurrent difficulty with a lack of sexual desire or arousal, or difficulty reaching orgasm. Sexual desire disorder: these involve lack of interest in sex or aversion to sexual contact, often report absence of sexual thoughts or fantasies. Found that the incidence of low sexual desire was 26. 7% for premenopausal women and 52. 4% for postmenopasusal women: the problem is more common among women than men. It is speculated that gay and lesbian couples may have fewer discrepancy troubles. People with low sexual desire may have little or no interest in sex but they"re not repelled by genital contact: overly anxious in sexual situations can cause sexual aversion in men because these situations trigger geelings of shame. Sexual trauma such as rape or childhood sexual abuse or incest, ofen figure prominently in cases of sexual aversion, among women. Sexual-arousal disorder: vasocongestion: engorgement of blood vessels with blood, which swells the genitals and breasts during sexual arousal.