Chapter 3

Question 1

__________ _________ is inextricably linked to sexual activities, sexual feelings, sexual interactions, sexual pleasure, and sexual intimacy

Answer 1

Sexual anatomy

Question 2

Our reasons for engaging in sexual behavior are far more varied and complicated because psychology processes play a role at least as great or greater than biology

T or f

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Our physical patterns of sexual response are much more similar than they are different

T or f

Answer 3

True

Question 4

EPOR model

Answer 4

Masters and Johnson’s approach to explaining the process of sexual response, encompassing four arbitrarily divided phases

Excitement
Plateau
Orgasm
Resolution

Question 5

Excitement phase

Answer 5

First phase

The first physical changes of sexual arousal occur

Ex: kissing, touching, fantasy

Question 6

Plateau phase

Answer 6

Second phase

Sexual arousal levels off (reaches a plateau) and remains at an elevated level of excitement

Question 7

What two phases are seen as accounting for a unified event that might be called sexual arousal ?

Answer 7

Excitement

Plateau

Question 8

Aphrodisiac

Answer 8

Mythical substances that are thought to enhance sexual arousal and desire

Question 9

Vasocongestion

Answer 9

The swelling of erectile tissues due to increase blood flow during sexual arousal

In excitement phase

Question 10

Sex flush

Answer 10

A darkening or reddening of the skin of the chest area that occurs in some people during sexual arousal

Question 11

Arousal (excitement and plateau) steps

Answer 11

Vasocongestion

Sex flush

Erection of penis and clitoris (vaginal lubrication)

Arousal goes up as excitement slows down

Tenting

Question 12

Tenting

Answer 12

A widening of the inner two-thirds of the vagina during sexual arousal

Question 13

Orgasm

Answer 13

Climax of sexual arousal

The most intensely pleasurable experience of sexual responding

Vary in character and intensity

Question 14

Women and orgasms?

Time required?

Cause by?

Answer 14

Women tend to require a longer period of stimulation than men do to achieve

Orgasm is the result of direct or indirect stimulation of the clitoris or clitoral area

Women can have additional orgasms

Question 15

Multiple orgasms

Answer 15

More than one orgasm at relatively short intervals as sexual stimulation continues without a resolution phase or refractory period in between orgasms

Women can, men can’t

Question 16

________ __________ is a sexual break of sorts, when men are unable to have another orgasm regardless of the stimulation they receive

Answer 16

Refractory period

Question 17

Emission

Answer 17

In males: the buildup of sperm and armen in the urethral bulb just prior to being expelled through the urethra

Question 18

Men and orgasms

Ejaculation stages?

Answer 18

Loss of control over some voluntary muscles

Pelvic contractions

Ejaculation: emission and expulsion

Question 19

Ejaculatory inevitability

“Point of no return”

Answer 19

In males the sensation produced during the emission phase of ejaculation that expulsion of semen is imminent, reflexive, and cannot he stopped

Question 20

Expulsion

Answer 20

Males: the contraction of pelvic muscles that force semen through the urethra and out of the body through the penis

Question 21

Factors influencing the intensity and duration of orgasms?

4

Answer 21

Length of arousal prior to orgasm

Length of time since the previous orgasm

Alcohol or drug use

Feelings of comfort and intimacy with a partner

Question 22

G-spot

Answer 22

Women: an area of tissue on the anterior (upper) wall of the vagina that when stimulated, may cause a woman to experience enhanced sexual arousal and more intense orgasms

Question 23

Health benefits of orgasm?

8

Answer 23

General health 
Longer life
Pain relief
Greater feelings of intimacy 
Lower cancer rate (men)
Less heart disease 
Mood enhancement 
Better sleep

Question 24

Skene’s glands

Answer 24

Female: a pair of glands on either side of the urethra that in some women may produce a fluid that is expelled during orgasm

The equal of men ejaculation

Question 25

Resolution phase

Answer 25

Fourth and last phase

Sexual structures return to their unaroused state

Detumescene

Question 26

Orgasm phase

Answer 26

Third phase

Sexual excitement and pleasure reach a climax

Question 27

Masters and Johnson’s EPOR model complications?

Answer 27

Neglect emotional and psychological components (desire)

Far too androcentric : relies heavily on a one-size fits all male sexual response pattern

Fails to acknowledge differences in female sexuality

Question 28

Masters and Johnson’s claims that men ejaculate, have a refractory period, and have multiple orgasms but women do not have been found that they do not apply to all men and all women

T or f

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Kaplan’s three stage model

Answer 29

An alternative to masters and Johnson’s EPOR model that features the stages of desire, excitement, and orgasm

Question 30

Hypoactive sexual desire

Answer 30

A persistently low level of desire for sexual activity, or lack of sexual fantasies

Aka: inhibited sexual desire

Question 31

Erotic stimulus pathway theory

Answer 31

A model of sexual response based on the psychological and cognitive stages of seduction, sensation,surrender and reflection

Reed’s model

Question 32

Reed’s erotic model focus was placed on the cognitive and psychological rather than on the physical

T or f

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Dual control model of sexual response

Answer 33

A theory that sexual arousal is controlled by a combination of excitatory and inhibitory processes

Question 34

New view of women’s sexual problems

Answer 34

A model of female sexual response incorporating a larger variety of factors than previous models, including physical, cognitive, social, and relationships issues

Question 35

Many people mistakenly equate sex with sexual intercourse

T or f

Answer 35

True

Question 36

New view of women’s sexual problems seeks to redefine the sexual responses of women as fundamentally distinct from those of men and argues that a single model is inadequate to explain both

T or f

Answer 36

True