HB Chapter 3

• Types of Sexual Disorder and Sexual Dysfunction

  • Sexual identity
  • Sexual performance
  • Sexual Aim
• Symptoms of Sexual Dysfunction in Men

  • Erectile dysfunction - inability to achieve/maintain an erection suitable for intercourse
  • Retarded Ejaculation - absent or delayed ejaculation despite adequate sexual stimulation
  • Premature Ejaculation - inability to control the timing of ejaculation
• Symptoms of Sexual Dysfunction in Women

  • Inability to achieve orgasm
  • Inadequate vaginal lubrication before and during intercourse
  • Inability to relax the vaginal muscle enough to allow intercourse
• Symptoms of Sexual Dysfunction in Men and Women

  • Lack of desire to sex
  • Inability to become arouse
  • Pain with intercourse
• Human sexual response cycle


  Sequence of physical and emotional changes that occur as a person becomes sexually arouse and participates in sexually stimulating activities, including intercourse and masturbation
• Phases of Sexual Cycles

  • Excitement Phase (arousal phase)
  • Plateau Phase (sexual excitement prior to orgasm)
  • Orgasmic Phase (conclusion of the plateau phase)
  • Resolution Phase (Refractory Period)
• Major Categories of Sexual Disorder

  • Sexual Dysfunction
  • Paraphilias
  • Gender Identity Disorder (Transsexualism)
• Types of Sexual Dysfunction

  • Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
  • Sexual Aversion Disorder
  • Male Erectile Disorder
  • Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
  • Premature Ejaculation
  • Male Orgasmic Disorder
  • Female orgasmic Disorder
  • Sexual Paid Disorder (Vaginismus, Dyspareunia)
  • Hyper Sexuality (Nymphomania, Satyriasis)
• Common Forms of Paraphilia

  • Exhibitionism
  • Fetishism
  • Frotteurism (Frottage)
  • Scatolia
  • Telephone Scatologia
  • Copropraxia
  • Coprographia
  • Necrophilia
  • Coprophilia
  • Zoophilia
  • Urophilia
  • Mysophilia
  • Hypoxyphilia
• Gender Identity Disorder (Transsexualism)


  Disturbance of gender identification in which the affected person has an overwhelming desire to change their anatomic sex or insists that they are of the opposite sex
• Categories of Sexual abnormalities

  • Heterosexual
  • Homosexual (Overt, Latent)
  • Infantosexual
  • Bestosexual
  • Autosexual (Conscious, Unconscious)
  • Gerontophilia
  • Necrophilia
  • Incest
• Types of Sexual Abnormalities

  • Over sex (Satyriasis, Nymphomania)
  • Under sex (Sexual Anesthesia, Dyspareunia, Vaginismus, Oralism, Fellatio, Cunnilingus, Anilism, Sado-masochism, Fetishism, Sodomy, Uranism, Frottage, Partialism, Voyeurism, Mixoscopia, Triolism, Pluralism, Transvestism, Transsexualism)