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3. Human Sexuality Flashcards

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What is sexuality?

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The thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connected with sexual gratification and reproduction.

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What is biologic gender?

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Same as sex, based on external genitalia or chromosomes

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What is intersex?

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Individuals with genetic, hormonal, or physical features of both male and female at once.

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How to all humans start/what is the default?

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Anatomically female

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What causes differentiation of the sexes?

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Fetal androgens

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What is gender identity?

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The innate sense of feeling male, female, some combination of both or neither or a 3rd gender.

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What is sexual identity?

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How one thinks of oneself in terms of whom one is romantically or sexually attracted to.
Straight, lesbian, queer, bi

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What is sexual orientation?

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Describes the object of a person’s sexual impulses and attractions.
Heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, demisexual, skoliosexual

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What is sexual behavior?

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Specific actions and behaviors involving sexual activities

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What is gender expression?

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How one presents one’s gender to others

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What is gender discordance?

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Discrepancy between assigned gender and gender identity

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What are transsexuals?

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Gender discordant people who make changes to their perceived gender or anatomic sex
Old term for transgender

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What is cisgender?

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A person whose gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex all align

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What is transgender?

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Someone who is not cisgender

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What is nonbinary/genderqueer?

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A person whose gender identity is neither masculine nor feminine, both or is fluid.

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What is sexual response?

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Attitudes towards sexuality and towards one’s sexual partner are directly involved with, and affect, the physiology of human sexual response

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What is the sexual response cycle?

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  1. Desire
  2. Excitement and arousal
  3. Orgasm
  4. Resolution
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What excitatory hormones are involved in the sexual response?

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Dopamine
Testosterone (men and women)
Estrogen (women)

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What inhibitory hormones are involved in the sexual response?

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Serotonin
Progesterone

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What is hypoactive sexual desire disorder?

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Deficiency or absence of sexual fantasies or desire for sexual activity.
20% of females

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What is sexual aversion disorder?

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Characterized by an aversion to, and avoidance of genital sexual contact.

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How do you treat sexual desire disorders?

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Therapy
Serotonergic drugs: Addyi
Melanocortin agonsits: Vyleesi
Testosterone and estrogen

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What is female sexual arousal disorder?

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Dysfunction with lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement until the completion of sexual act

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How do you treat female sexual arousal disorders?

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Therapy
Testosterone
Bupropion/Wellbutrin
Viagra

25
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What is male erectile dysfunction?

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Erectile dysfunction, impotence
10-20% of men

26
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If a man has erections as sometimes and not at others, the problems is likely _____?

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Psychological

27
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What is female orgasmic disorder?

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recurrent delay in, or absence of, orgasm after a normal sexual excitement phase

28
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How do you treat female orgasmic disorders?

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Vacuum-pump device for clitoris
Viagra
OTC lubricant
Counsel about mechanical factors

29
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What is male orgasmic disorder?

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Man achieves ejaculation and orgasm during coitus only after great difficulty if at all

30
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What is the treatment for male orgasmic disorder?

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therapy
Dopamine agonists

31
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What is premature ejaculation?

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persistent or recurrent orgasm and ejaculation before the man wishes to or before his partner is satisfied.

32
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What is the squeeze technique?

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Squeeze the coronal ridge of the glans to diminish and erection and inhibit ejaculation

33
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What is dyspareunia?

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recurrent or persistent genital pain occurring either before, during, or after intercourse.

34
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What is vaginismus?

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Involuntary muscle constriction of the outer 1/3 of vagina

35
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How do you treat vaginismus?

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Dilating the vagina with fingers or dilators
PT therapy

36
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How do you evaluate for male erectile disorder?

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Lab studies (glucose/A1C, hormone assays, liver, thyroid, lipids)
Nocturnal penile tumescence
Assessing blood flow to the pudendal artery

37
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How do antipsychotics affect sex function?

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decrease dopamine

38
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How do antidepressants affect sex function?

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Increase serotonin

39
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How do anti-anxiety agents affect sex function?

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Improve sexual inhibition caused by anxiety but also increases serotonin

40
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How do anticholinergics and antihistamines affect sex function?

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DMM and impotence

41
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How do contraceptives affect sex function?

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Abnormal levels or estrogen, progesterone, and LH

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How does anti-androgen therapy (spironolactone) affect sex function?

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Lowers androgens such as testosterone

43
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What is persistent genital arousal disorder?

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Sexual arousal not associated with psychological desire that can persist from hours to weeks at a time

44
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What is the treatment for persistent genital arousal disorder?

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SSRIs, psychotherapy, topical or injected anesthetic agents

45
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What is paraphilias?

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Deviations from conventionally normal human sexual interests and behaviors

46
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What is exhibitionism?

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Sexual arousal by exposing genitalia to strangers

47
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What is transvestism?

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Recurrent cross-dressing in a heterosexual man

48
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What is voyerism?

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Attaining arousal watching an unsuspecting person or people

49
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What is pedophilia?

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Use of a child to achieve sexual arousal and gratification

50
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What is incest?

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Sexual relationship with a person in your immediate family

51
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What is sexual sadism?

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Inflicting pain upon the sexual object as a means of arousal

52
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What is sexual masochism?

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Erotic pleasure being achieved by being humiliated, enslaved, or physically bound or restrained

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What is fetishism?

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Erotic fantasies and sexual urges or behavior involving non-living objects

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What is frotteurism?

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Sexual arousal from touching or rubbing against a non consenting person

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