PS264 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Tomboy, Ovulation, Critical Role
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Human sexual arousal (passion: before human sexual response was published. Women were nonorgasmic and rarely, if ever, had sexual feelings: sexual behavour in human male (kinsey et al) and sexual behaviour in the human female (kinsey et al) Showed that women enjoy sex and both sexes enjoy a wide variety of sexual practices, like to have sex in different positions and locations. At the time people regarded idea of variation in sexual response as perverse: biological component. Person becomes interested in the opposite sex because of visual, auditory, olfactory or even cognitive cues. Masters and johnson focused research on tactile phase of sexual behaviour: argued sex is rewarding because it provides a pleasurable sensory experience. Remarkable similarity between female and male sexual response. Corrected misconceptions: women do not derive any pleasurable sensation from sex and that they do not experience orgasms. Four stages of female sexual response: excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasmic phase, resolution phase.
