PSYC 5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Hypersexuality, Kroger, Orgasm
18 May 2020
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14 hypo- vs. hyper- sexual desire and their therapies. Female orgasmic problems: hard to get excited, hard to stay excited, hard to reach orgasm. How often do you orgasm w/ partner. Historically women were expected to play good wife and maternal roles: a woman tolerated her husband"s sexual urges but was not expected to be sexual herself. For centuries a woman who had orgasms might be burned at the stake as a witch. Today, part of the double standard is for women to be sexy, but not sexual. Kinsey"s book about women in 1953 shocked the nation: 14% of women had experienced multiple orgasms . Bergler and kroger wrote a book in 1954: kinsey"s myth of female sexuality: named women nymphomaniacs . Therapy (& enrichment) for female orgasm problems. 36% of who do: you do not have to masturbate to have a good sex life, as females get older, masturbation rates increase, 7 easy non-threatening steps to learn self-pleasuring.
