Lesson 11-12

• Sexual Behaviors


  Actions that humans agree to interpret as an expression of their sexual motivations or intentions
• Auto-erotic (self-directed)


  Masturbation or the stimulation of one's own genitals
• Homoerotic


  Sexual behaviors oriented to the same sex
• Heteroerotic


  Sexual behaviors oriented to the other sex
• Ventral-ventral position


  Male and female species are facing each other
• Ventral-dorsal position


  Abdomen of the male species is facing the dorsum of the female
• Fellatio


  Oral stimulation of the penis
• Cunnilingus


  Oral stimulation of the vagina
• Anal sex


  Penetration of the anal orifice
• Copulation


  The insertion of the penis to the vaginal orifice
• Non-copulatory


  Sexual behaviors such as hugging, kissing, caressing
• Sexual Response Cycle


  Sequence of events from arousal to orgasm to resolution of sexual tension
• Sexual Response Cycle


  1. Excitement

  2. Plateau

  3. Orgasm

  4. Resolution
• Excitement


  First phase in the cycle. The goal of this phase is erection or tumescence (male) and lubrication (female)
• Plateau


  Characterized by a sustained peak in stimulation of organs
• Orgasm


  The climax of sexual response cycle
• Resolution


  The male penis return to its normal unerected phase. For female, inner and outer reproductive organ relax
• Kaplan's Model


  Sees the sexual response cycle as having independent stages
• Desire


  Psychological component of the sexual response
• Arousal


  Excitement and plateau phase (as defined by Masters and Johnson) take place. Physiological component of sexual response
• Orgasm


  Similar to Masters and Johnson, except, this phase includes Resolution phase
• Sexual response dysfunctions


  Some people experience difficulty or problems in some of the sexual phases
• Common sexual response dysfunctions


  • Sexual desire disorder
  • Sexual arousal disorder
  • Orgasmic disorder
  • Sexual pain disorders
• Sexual desire disorder


  Individual has low levels of desire
• Sexual arousal disorder


  Individual has problems in achieving necessary physiological state for copulation (e.g., erectile dysfunction)
• Orgasmic disorder


  Individual has problems in achieving orgasm
• Sexual pain disorders


  Experience of pain during the sexual response cycle
• Paraphilias


  Atypical sexual behavior variations
• Paraphilic disorder


  The urge or act lasts for at least six months and is a manifestation of clinically significant distress
• Common Paraphilic disorders


  • Exhibitionism
  • Fetishism
  • Frotteurism
  • Pedophilia
  • Sexual masochism
  • Sexual sadism
  • Transvestic fetishism
  • Voyeurism
• Exhibitionism


  Pleasure from exposing genitals to nonconsenting people
• Fetishism


  Arousal from non-living objects
• Frotteurism


  Touching one's body/genitals to nonconsenting people
• Pedophilia


  Arousal from children
• Sexual masochism


  Arousal from suffering
• Sexual sadism


  Arousal from inflicting pain to others
• Transvestic fetishism


  Arousal from wearing opposite sex's clothes during sexual acts
• Voyeurism


  Observing other people engaged in sexual activities
• Stereotype


  Extremely generalized belief about a group of people
• Prejudice


  Unjustified or incorrect attitude towards a person